A few thoughts on the results of the trip through Western Sahara to Mauritania, Senegal and the Gambia. Traveling between West African countries by public transport is quite easy (not to be confused with

Whatever you call it, this train from Zouerate to Nouadhibou is unmistakable, there are no others in Mauritania. It was I who rode it in a white coat (which, reluctantly, nevertheless threw it away), someone

Chinguetti has suffered more from time (and sand) than Ouadan. But his mosque is still in operation (due to which, according to Moorish traditions, only a Muslim can get inside) and its minaret, the symbol

Quote from the UNESCO website: "Founded in the 11th-12th centuries to serve caravans crossing the Sahara, these trading and religious centers became important centers of Islamic culture. They managed

Mauritanians not only do not like to get into the camera lens. Many vendors do not allow filming of their camels. Who then, photographed, will buy them. There are thousands of camels in the market. Sold

Travel notes are over, photo sketches remain. They catch fish from painted motor boats, and immediately sell them. Hundreds of kilometers from the coast in the middle of the desert, fish is also sold,

I can praise myself for a well-planned route, and the guide for a good performance. This trip could have been a little cheaper, it could have been much more expensive. Everything was comfortable enough,

Final (inshallah) day of the Sahara tour. Long road to the capital. In the morning, the guide unexpectedly asked in detail how we slept and how dinner went. It turned out that the shelter in Noise is his

Today is the most important day of the trip. Because either I'm on time for the train, or why was I dragging clothes with me to throw away? However, with a good guide, it is almost impossible to miss the

Very easy day, almost no crossings. We started with a tour of the World Heritage site, the fortified old city of Ouadana. What the photos of other travelers did not prepare me for was its size. The city

As happens in a Muslim village, I woke up with the first muezzins, at 05:40. In the evening conversation, the guide debunked all the myths about Mauritania that we learned from documentaries. Slavery has

The famous mauritanian train

We started our five-day Sahara trip with a short tour of Nouakchott. We stopped at the fish market, then at the camel market. They bought a "travel charter" from some people, without which we

There is not much to say about Nouadhiba, except that its name is translated as "den of jackals". The city is located on a narrow peninsula, which is divided in length by the Western Sahara and

Details will come later

SoupraTours runs buses from Moroccan Dakhla to Mauritanian Nouadhibou and Nouakchott. But, unfortunately, not every day. Every day the bus goes from Dakhla to the border Gergerat (at 9 am, 190 dirhams

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Update: I found some new pictures! With a sea level rise, this could very likely be the place Plato described as Atlantis. An extremely unique geological formation known as the Richat structure. 'Atlantes'