http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritania/Adrar/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Africa , Mauritania , Adrar en-us Tue, 21 May 2013 06:34:07 +0000 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:34:07 +0000 A lot of websites now offer you iPhone app overview or iPad app critiques which show the recognition from the appearth and intelligent phones in the current days. The two iPhone and iPad are initial merchandise from Apple and are each extremely nicelyliked.iPhone is a wise cell phone that is developing calls sending texts and emails browse the web read guides perform video clips and music a http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritania/Adrar/Chinguetti/blog-703889.html I am on the back of a Ute high above the roof sitting on some bags. Its pitch black and I am concentrating so I dont fall asleep. If I do and fall off no one would know for a while. Only one other guy is up there with me and he is facing the other way The rest of the passengers are squeezed inside. There is no evidence to suggest that I am in the Sahara. Its just the sound of the tyres http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritania/Adrar/Chinguetti/blog-591333.html Will there be somewhere for me to sit down lay down Will I have to stand up the whole time What about a toilet Will I be able to breath Wheres my luggage going to go Even if I am able to sit or lay down whats the state of the floor or seat Will I be able to cope catching an iron ore train for 12 hours not equipped for humans and getting sand blasted by the Sahara for my troublesI cr http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritania/Adrar/Choum/blog-590841.html So I have finished up my time in the desert with a camel ride in the Sahara around Chingetti.Left at 5 am and arrived in the nice quite town for about 7am. Was waived through all the checkpoints because our guide is a popular man as he told us when he first met us.Spent most of the day relaxing and getting to know our roomates Olie from England and Corey from Calgary.They were there to checkout http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritania/Adrar/Chinguetti/blog-417282.html Well quite the experience.First I had to wait 6 hours at the train station because the shipment was behind schedule and it was more important than the passengers makes sensen.Then when I finally got on the train I began to experience the dust...My god.Lots of it.In my eyes hair ears mouth.In all of my luggage.12 hours.BUT it was a lot of fun.The train was an amazin experience.Now I am in At http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritania/Adrar/Atar/blog-416171.html So the trip in the desert has been going reasonably well. Not exactly what I wanted but at least I am seeing beautiful dunes and oasis. Tonight my third night outside on the dunes and it seems like the best place yet. Last night was shitty as I was next to the town and in the open. My God is it hot during the day. I spend 12 and 5 pm at the Oasis reading I just finished Margret Atwoods Ory http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritania/Adrar/Chinguetti/blog-404112.html First some reflections on the pickup ride yesterday. A once in a lifetime experience. I stress ONCE. However it was very cool despite being somewhat hellish. So yesterday I decided to take a six day camel excursion with a young guy Evoku from Chingetti. Once we finally got to Chingetti blown tire on the truck a French woman gave me some good info on Senegal. Later her Burkinabe friend gave m http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritania/Adrar/Chinguetti/blog-403153.html Wow Im exhausted Yesterday did little Mathias and I tried to get some beer at the end of the night but the only place Novotel seemed far too pricey. Today after trying to exchange my pounds sterling I said good bye to Mathias and grabbed a ride to Atar. 1500 UM seemed to be a good price except for the fact that there were seven of us including two paratroopers in the bed of a tiny http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritania/Adrar/Atar/blog-402676.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritania/Adrar/Chinguetti/blog-300463.html 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 get http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritania/Adrar/Choum/blog-300447.html Hey Everyone I think its being about a month or so since I updated my blog. Dont 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 Im feeling the need to talk to my parents or use the computer. http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritania/Adrar/blog-224052.html After a night in Nouakchott to shower and catch up on food shopping we ventured away from the coast inland to the old trading city of Chinguetti. Once a major player in Mauritania it is still considered by Mauritanians to be one of the holiest places in Islam. The city itself is a shadow of its former self and is slowly giving way to the sands of the desert that surround it. It's incredible to http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritania/Adrar/Chinguetti/blog-216756.html Hello Everyone Well it's being a while since I posted anything on my blog which I apologize for. No excuse really just got lazy for some reason. This posting finds me in the middle of Ramadan though I'm not fasting but it sure is hot here. The other day atar hit 120 degress. Not fun by any means but the cold season should be coming soon and it does actually get cold here during the night and http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritania/Adrar/Atar/blog-205511.html Vandaag gaan we richting Chinguetti een rustplaats voor de vroegere kameel karavaans richting het zuiden of richting Mekka het begin van de ''echte'' Sahara zoals iedereen hem kent met z'n eindeloze zandduinen. Rond negen gaan we richting ''garage Chinguetti'' de verzamelplaats van pickups richting Chinguetti. Zoals gewoonlijk is het na de onderhandelingen over de juiste prijs wachten tot de pi http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritania/Adrar/Chinguetti/blog-133682.html Ik was van plan met de trein richting het westen te gaan in het hostel ontmoet ik een Griekse gozer hij heeft dezelfde plannen en we hebben gisteren afgesproken vandaag samen de trein te pakken richting Choum. De trein komt in plaats van rond 1400u rond 1600u aan de trein is inmens de wagons houden werkelijk niet op het is de langste trein terwereld met soms wel tot 300 wagons en een tot http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritania/Adrar/Atar/blog-133670.html It's been six days since I was able to get anywhere near an internet cafe in that time a lot has happened. I am going to write this blog in diary format day by day as I wrote the entries in my notebook.Some amazing things have happened in that time including a bush taxi leaving for a 3 hour journey across the desert without putting any petrol in. It ran out of petrol after half an hour. So http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritania/Adrar/Chinguetti/blog-2881.html