Atar, Mauritania

... Richat (pour Laurence d'Arabie de NYC -voir les épisodes précédents-). On se pose des questions sur une éventuelle traversée Atar Tidjikja ( 420 km non balisés mais avec guide et en convoi). Accueil excellent des Mauritaniens, aucun problème de sécurité ressenti ...

... 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 predominately ...

... 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 ( ...

A few hours of direct flight (charter) from Paris, we get to Atar. Sudden rise in temperature ! We feel a bit exhausted as the night in the airport was loooooooooong. We thought we could sleep on the benches and as a matter of fact were able to lay down on ...