http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Mauritania/Adrar/Chinguetti/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Africa , Mauritania , Adrar , Chinguetti en-us Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:09:07 UTC Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:09:07 UTC 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 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 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 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