Mauritania

I visited Mauritania on my trip across the Sahara Desert following the Atlantic route south from Morocco and Western Sahara in December 2004.

Arriving in Nouadhibou
The iron ore train
Atar
Chinguetti & Ouadane
Christmas at Terjit Oasis

Atar
Nouakchott

Nouadhibou
Chinguetti
Ouadane
Atar & Terjit

Map of Mauritania

Camel

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Nouadhibou Photo Gallery

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An artists impression (a very good one!) of the border with Morocco.	View looking north along Boulevard Median, Nouadhibou.	View north along Rue de la Galerie Mahfoud.
Rue de la Galerie Mahfoud.	A busy side street leading to the market area.	View looking south along the main street, Boulevard Median.
The excellent Camping Baie du Levrier, where I stayed in the centre of Nouadhibou.	Shipwrecks in the bay near the railway station.	Dozens of shipwrecks lining the bay near the railway station.
A pile of shoes I found dumped in the sand dunes outside of Nouadhibou.	The railway station a few kilometres south of Nouadhibou.	A train heading south to the port past the station.
Passengers and cargo waiting in the desert for the iron ore train to arrive.	The iron ore train arriving at the station.	Passengers loading and boarding the iron ore wagons.
The iron ore train stretching approximately 2.5km down the tracks.	View across the desert plains at sunrise from the escarpment of the Adrar plateau.	Our bush taxi from Choum to Atar, stopping on the way up the Adrar plateau.