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Africa » Mauritania » Dakhlet Nouadhibou » Nouadhibou December 28th 2004

This is the 2nd attempt to write this blog. I had to abandon writing this half way through yesterday. It's been a few days since I last updated this blog. In that time a group of us have been invited to the home of a local family. The Mama's family hospitality has been without bounds. Merci beaucoup! Also I've been trying to leave this town for a couple of days, each time I go to the train station, there's no train. It's becoming like a recurrent dream, where you can't move... More about that later. So, to update recent events... When I arrived in Nouadhibou, I took a shared room with three other people, the same people I travelled with from Dahkla. The cost 1375 Ouiguigo each, . That's four Euro's! The camping site toilets are ... read more
The family
The Mama's house
Sweet!

Africa » Mauritania » Dakhlet Nouadhibou » Nouadhibou December 23rd 2004

I said in my last post that it would be a 6 hour journey to the border. Some hope! More like 30! But I am now finally in Mauritania, after an interesting expedition. The Mauritanians have proved to be very friendly and helpful, throughout the journey. The journey began when I checked out of my hotel in Dahkla , just before 9am on the 22nd of December. There were 3 other travellers waiting in the square outside my hotel. All 3 were French. Soon after 9am a number of Mauritanians started to arrive and greeted all of us. Except that the young French woman was surprised to find that the men wouldn't shake her hand. I was somewhat surprised that she didn't know that Mauritanian men are not supposed to touch women. I didn't say anything ... read more
Expedition to Nouadhibou
Expedition to Nouadhibou
Expedition to Nouadhibou




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