Chinguetti Trees
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Independent from France in 1960, Mauritania annexed the southern third of the former Spanish Sahara (now Western Sahara) in 1976, but relinquished it after three years of raids by the Polisario guerrilla front seeking independence for the territory.... [read more]
Independent from France in 1960, Mauritania annexed the southern third of the former Spanish Sahara (now Western Sahara) in 1976, but relinquished it after three years of raids by the Polisario guerrilla front seeking independence for the territory.... [read more] Blog: The Western Sahara Route; Onward
Date: July 29th 2006
THE WESTERN SAHARA ROUTE In the Czech Republic at Christmastime I met a Dutchman who was a thousand years old. His leathered skin hung off once-sharp features in great Byzantine folds, and his voice groaned out in thick English, terribly slow and breathless. I asked the man of his travels and he told me quite solemnly that he had been everywhere. Twenty; at twenty, he told me, he had c ... read more
Date: July 29th 2006
THE WESTERN SAHARA ROUTE In the Czech Republic at Christmastime I met a Dutchman who was a thousand years old. His leathered skin hung off once-sharp features in great Byzantine folds, and his voice groaned out in thick English, terribly slow and breathless. I asked the man of his travels and he told me quite solemnly that he had been everywhere. Twenty; at twenty, he told me, he had c ... read more
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I like traveling, and I like writing. So, yeah, this works out fairly well for me.
(Everything written in this blog, apart from the objective catalogue of place attributes, is either outright fictional or embellished. Resemblance to my own travels is circumstantial.)... full info
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