Country Info
- Nouakchott
- Capital
- Ouguiya (MRO)
- Currency
- 2,747,312
- Population
- MR
- Country Code
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Nouakchott (Fr+Pt)
Attention les français: Je commence maintenant a prendre conscience que peut-être ce site n'était pas le meilheur pour faire un blog du sort. Je m'excuse auprès de vous, mais je ne pourrais pas à chaque fois faire un long texte version française ...
Day 26-Mauritania, Nouakchott-An Intro to Tear Gas
All I can say is thank god I wasn't on cook group... getting up at 6am was hard enough, let alone having to rise at 5.15 as they had to. We had a very very long drive ahead so needed to be up and gone by 7. The early rise was made slightly ...
Day 25-Mauritania, Nouadhibou-Welcome to the Moon
... no more than 5km! At least we were now on our way and in another country. Yay. Few things about Mauritania: 1. It has the longest trains in the world. A mix of iron ore and passenger trains. ...
The Road to Oualata
10th - Continued to Oualata, had 2 punctures within 1hr of one another. There are tracks going left, right and center, so it was hard for Chris to guess the correct route. Came into a town to see where we were going, was the wrong way and ...
2 days in the biggest nature reserve in the world!
First ive got to say that this was the biggest highlight of the trip so far. I'd only heard of this place briefly and didn't put much interest into it either. On the way down we didn't even discuss the possibility of visiting the place. The banc d'arguin ...
Nouakchott
... a nice text for you but i forgot my paper in the tent and i am lazy to rethink it!! I left Morocco for Mauritania last tuesday and arrived in Nouadhibou, the 2nd biggest city in Mauritania which looks like a very small undevelopped town... no public ...
Western Sahara and Mauritania
... more prepared and maybe take a book out with me! In any case we eventually made it through into our second African country; Mauritania, where I felt our journey really begins as we step off the more popular tourist routes and into West Africa. My first ...
A Failed State?
... while it is being processed. Should be ready later today so we'll set off for Saint-Louis early tomorrow morning. Mauritania is treated like a bit of a pariah in the international community (any country who's name begins with "Islamic Republic ...
Nouadhibou to Atar
... read about Mauritania and subsequently the train trip from Nouadhibou to Choum, the very one that we were planning on taking today. Mauritania is obviously a desert country with well under 3 million people. Who, up till the droughts of the 1970 were ...
Great mosque (Nouakchott, Mauritania)
this mosque is the biggest construction in the whole city. This was build with money from the Saudi ...
Dakhla to Nouadhibou
Back in Casablanca I had got myself a 3 month multi-entry visa for the Mauritania which was a complete waste of an additional 20 euros but armed with my new diplomatic powers I brought a bus ticket to Dakhla which was a good 32 hour trip. Luckily the bus ...
Ouaidane to Nouakchott
... 't get lost. They promptly suggested I go with them, which I promptly accepted. Not knowing anything about the south east of Mauritania I was pretty keen to go have a good look around. At Atar we organised to follow another convoy of people that were ...
Chingetti to Ouaidane
Back in Atar we finally found and settled on a price for a taxi ride to get to the 7th holiest Islamic village; Chinguetti. However we were to loose Antonio, who decided to try his luck at hitching a ride there, as a result I wasn't to see him again for ...
Roads less travelled
So after being very looked after by the people of Dakhla we ventured forth to Mauritania. There is no transport between the countries. We managed to get a good deal and for 30quid each got a place in a banged out old Mercedes that was going across ...
We are in the desert, its hot!
... in like lost urchins to the house of a stranger for the night. Ibrahim, the son of the ex minister for tourism for Mauritania, kindly took us to his humungous house and feed us huge amounts of food. The house had all of four sitting rooms big ...
The most beautiful road ever!
Well our main road consisted of sand dunes on our left and the beautiful Ocean on our right. Our nights consisted of camping on the beach under the stars or in tents if we so chose, listening to the sound of the sea!! ...
Are You A Citizen of US or Them?
... never to Mauritania (well there is a reason for that: 1) it's the desert, the Sahara Desert at that; and 2) it's Mauritania...known for....its desert). I was happy that they were happy and approved my visa right away and everyhting was ...
Nouadhibou & Cap Blanc, Mauritania, Oct 15, 2007
... a full day and two nights in Nouadhibou to relax and recuperate between the two stretches of our Saharan crossing. Nouadhibou is Mauritania's second largest city and a major fishing and iron ore port. From the looks of it, it's not necessarily ...
Deep Into The Sahara, Mauritania, Oct 19 -22, 2007
... 1978 has traversed a varying route each year through much of the same country we traveled through. Western Sahara and Mauritania have been the standard routes for nearly two decades since Algeria's civil war essentially closed that country to most ...
Banc D'Arguin Coast, Mauritania, Oct 17 - 18, 2007
We continued with our sand matting through the Dunes of Doom the following morning, hitting the coastal lagoons within a few hours where there were plenty of opportunities for bird watching in the national park's shallow bays and inlets - flamingoes, ...
Road to Senegal, October 23, 2007
... There frequency of villages was greater, and they were populated by darker-skinned tribal Africans who make up about a third of Mauritania's small population. Sahel means shore in Arabic, but the term generally refers to the wide band of ...
Banc D'Arguin Desert, Mauritania, Oct 16- 17, 2007
Banc D'Arguin National Park is a reserve designed to protect coastal scenery, traditional local fishing lifestyle, and the wetlands environment that is one of the most important wintering areas for migratory European birds. Although Banc D'Arguin's ...
Chinguetti, Mauritania, October 19 - 20, 2007
... . This was certainly the case in Chinguetti where I would have been interested in buying something characteristic of Mauritania, but my bargaining skills weren't sufficient to get me any items of interest in a price range I could ...
Terjit Oasis, Mauritania, October 21 - 22, 2007
... hot in Africa. The rotund ones must all stay at home, though, because I actually saw fewer corpulent beauties in Mauritania than I recall from Egypt, Jordan, or Morocco. We backtracked part of the way from Chinguetti and then turned off the ...
Nouakchott, Mauritania, October 22, 2007
... being depleted by Asian and European fishing fleets raping the sea of all life. Financially strapped governments in Senegal, Mauritania, and Guinea-Bissau have been selling fishing rights to the EU for its fishing fleet. The payments for such ...