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a hint
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the entrance to the mosque... no caths allowed.
chinguetti was beautiful, but I dont feel like writting about it much. just check the pictures, Ill post something else instead in a while... oh yeah, just wanted to say that if you want to go to chinguetti you should go noow. since the killing of a bunch of frenchies in mauritania its a dessert city. me and the ppl that came with me were the only tourists in the city, and besides some CIA spies, I mean peace-corps volunteers, also the only whites (nassar in hassanian arab, a word I start to hear more and more in sentences such as: [View Full Entry]

pablostrip - pablo sv | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 1 Comment(s) | 5 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 113 words | [diary=300463] | 2008-07-16 11:28:40

panoramic
nomad door
3hours

By pablostrip
July 11th 2008

stop!

 Africa » Mauritania » Adrar » Choum
burrito
burrito
part of the train load. notice how the wind is blowing and the donkey is about to fall back.
there are no words nor images nor smells to describe the train trip. but Ill try... so heres the thing, the train comes to nouadibou from somewhere in the middle of the dessert full of minerals, is emptied in the port, and then goes back. this happens two or three times a day (insh alah!), and of course the train is only cleaned before its loaded with minerazls, which means that by the tilme it gets to nouadibou it has a pretty thick layer of toxic silverish . and so the train leaves from nouadibou port, and sometimes (god onbly knows [View Full Entry]

pablostrip - pablo sv | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 5 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 367 words | [diary=300447] | 2008-07-16 10:50:23

empty train
train stops to pee
train leaves

dakhla nouadibou
dakhla nouadibou
we were 12 in the back, find the granma!
el puto culo del mundo. eso es lo que es nouadhibou. para hacer los 350 km que separan marruecos de mauritania estuve 13 horas en una furgonetilla. al entrar solo estabamos una pareja franco/marroqui que estaban haciendo mas o menos el mismo viaje que yo, pero de improviso en el maletero de la fugonetilla entraron otras 9 personas: oops! en fin, muy divertido el viaje; con bombonas de butano sin amarrar del techo de la furgoneta que va por una carreterilla en territorio minado; ofrecimientois de matrimonio; ninos volando de un lado a otro; dos conejos apestando a orina; la abuela [View Full Entry]

pablostrip - pablo sv | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 1 Comment(s) | 5 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 328 words | [diary=297901] | 2008-07-10 11:08:46

and so on
afrique cest la merde! :D
mustafa

On The Train!
On The Train!
Here we are, so happy to have finally made it on the train and have our bags off our backs. Yes, this is before the train started!
We arrived at the train station early (a small building beside the tracks constitutes the station), to be sure we wouldn't miss the train as we did not know exactly when it left. Our group of four grew steadily as other travellers joined us. Sylvia and Michiel are from Dresden, Germany (he is Dutch though), Marty is a fellow Canadian who is from Alberta, and three Japanese fellows also joined us. Sylvia, Michiel, Peter and I decided to pay for the journey and got passenger car tickets for 1000 UM each (approx. 4 dollars), the others chose to ride for free [View Full Entry]

pnltravels - Peter & Laini | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 8 Comment(s) | 12 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 1706 words | [diary=255049] | 2008-03-11 14:11:55

The Iron Ore Train Travels Across the Desert
First Class Travel to Atar
Abdullah making Mauritanian Tea

We left our hotel in Dakhla, Morocco in a hired car at 7:00 am. We stopped just outside of town to pick up 2 more passengers (thankfully not 4 more! we still haven't recovered from that ride!). Between Dakhla and Nouadhibou (Mauritania), it is about 350 km. We optomistically thought we would arrive in Nouadhibou around noon. We arrived at the Moroccan border at about 12:30 pm and for the first time, we weren't the ones to hold up our vehicle. We had a young Mauritanian fellow in our car (I call him "The Prince" as that was how he seemed [View Full Entry]

pnltravels - Peter & Laini | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 3 Comment(s) | 4 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 748 words | [diary=253083] | 2008-03-06 12:20:32

The Elusive Monk Seal
White Rock Cliffs of Cap Blanc
Abandoned Ship on the Beach

By ailee
December 18th 2007

Beauty of nothingness

 Africa » Mauritania
4x4
4x4
somewhere on the plateau in between atar and chinguetti ....a short break for dinner at sunset...
First stop in West Africa and a good place to warm-up before heading south. Vast empty and amazing landscape. [View Full Entry]

ailee - Ailee | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 1 Comment(s) | 32 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 19 words | [diary=228528] | 2007-12-18 16:37:09

Just before trekking up the plateau between Atar and Chinguetti
At the gendarmarie
The walk between Atar and Chinguetti

The Moroccan side of the border took us just over 3 hours to get through, lot of bureaucracy we got stopped no less than 3 times within the frontier, police stop, army stop etc. Then after we are through comes 3 km of no mans land full of garbage and abandoned cars, we stopped a moment to help a stranded car in the sands little did we know we will get stuck as well, out the tire mats and we worked hard to dig betsy out and by the time we got to the Mauritanian frontier it was quarter to 3, [View Full Entry]

Viajerong Pinoy - GIL BRIONES | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 36 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 865 words | [diary=226085] | 2007-12-08 17:12:15

PARC NACIONAL DU BANC D ARGUIN
NOUAKCHOTT
BETSY AND TONKA

By MrBradders
December 3rd 2007

Goodbye Morocco

 Africa » Mauritania
Well, after a good few days bush camping (i.e. just camping in the woods or by a huge sand dune etc) we have arrived in Mauritania. Everyone was glad to see a shower as the rolling about on a hyge sand dune seemed to get everyone very sandy... apparently the girls suffered the worst... We had to use the sand boards to get the truck across no mans land between Morocco and Mauritania, which was rather enjoyable.. reminded me of that war film: Ice cold in Alex. We have a few more days pottering around here, going through a nature reserve, [View Full Entry]

MrBradders - Mark William Bradley | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 171 words | [diary=224745] | 2007-12-03 11:48:04


By saoirse
November 30th 2007

new ramblings

 Africa » Mauritania » Adrar
Hey Everyone, I think it’s being about a month or so since I updated my blog. Don’t know if anyone even reads these but I thought that I would still write on the chance that people are. Things have being very hectic the last few weeks. I have being at site for about five weeks, which is to long for me. After about week four, I’m feeling the need to talk to my parents or use the computer. School has being slightly chaotic. My school director left to go to another town and he was not replaced for about two weeks [View Full Entry]

saoirse - jolene foucault | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 0 Comment(s) | 0 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 880 words | [diary=224052] | 2007-11-30 19:06:21


Faced with four and a half hours of free time on a Saturday afternoon in Saint Louis, what else were we going to do but walk to Mauritania? Our guidebook had a little map with an arrow saying "Mauritania, 3km" so we figured it'd be no problem. Our first problem was that we forgot to figure in all the kilometres that it was going to take to get to the part of the map where the 3km started. In order to get off our island, we had to first walk south, cross a bridge to another island and head north. Eventually [View Full Entry]

Kate in Africa - Kate Henschel | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe | 1 Comment(s) | 7 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s) | 814 words | [diary=222798] | 2007-11-26 11:58:44

the "road" to Mauritania
the obligatory field of garbage
Faith in Mauritania


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