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Regions in Mauritania : Adrar, Assaba, Brakna, Dakhlet Nouadhibou, Gorgol, Guidimaka, Hodh ech Chargui, Hodh el Gharbi, Inchiri, Tagant, Tiris Zemmour, Trarza

Cities in Mauretania : Nouadihbou, Boutilimit, Aleg, Kiffa, Kouroudjel, Kankossa.

Capital City Mauritania : Nouakchott.


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Car Rentals Mauritania

 Europcar  -  Atar Airport, Nouadhibou Airport, Nouakchott Airport, Zouerate Airport

Hotels in Mauritania

 Mercure Nouakchott  -  Mercure Marhaba, 160, avenue Gamal Abder Nasser
 Novotel Nouakchott  -  Novotel Nouakchott Tfeila, avenue Charles de Gaulle
 L'Hôtel Tenadi  -  tourist complex near Nouakchott
Situé au Trarza à 90 km de Nouakchott sur la route de l'Espoir reliant Nouakchott au Mali, à la limite de ''l'Aouker muet'', véritable océan de dunes de sables aux couleur arc-en-ciel, Tenadi est la destination privilegiée des amoureux de l'authenticité, de l'aventure et de l'excellence.

National Parks

 National Park Banc d'Arguin
The Banc d'Arguin, the northern coast of Mauretania, is the most important spawning ground of essential coastal fish species and one of the most valuable habitats worldwide for marine mammals and water fowl

Travel Agents / Tour Operators

 Truck Africa  -  camping safari's  -  last great overlanding challenge
The idea of TA is to provide such a quality overland trips at a realistic price more likely to appeal to the adventurous in spirit.



 Chinguetti.com 
Atar Chinguetti, un trek en Mauritanie, à pied dans le Sahara.
 Amathliche Tours
Partez en 4x4 à la découverte du Sahara, vous traverserez des hauts cordons de dunes de l'Amatlich, admirerez les larges canyons de l'Adrar pour parvenir jusqu'à Chinguetti, dernière citadelle avant le silence des mers de sable.
 Appel du Desert
 Poussieres d'Étoiles [ English, French and Spanish ]
Trekking, Randonnées chamelières, Circuits thématiques, Circuits en 4x4 en Mautirinie
 Surmi Voyages [ Nouakchott ]
Itineraries : The Lost Cities, From Desert to Ocean, The Route of the Tagant, The Caravan Route, All of Mauritania.

 Responsibletravel.com  -  African safaris & holidays
100's of holidays to Africa from dozens of leading specialist tour companies and accommodations who are passionate about conserving Africa's wildlife and benefiting its people.

Travel Guides Mauritania / Related Books

Books about Mauritania

Morocco Handbook: With Mauritania -  Anne McLachlan
Describes the area, discusses its history, and provides information on accommodations, dining, attractions, and activities.
Paperback 512 pages (January 1, 2001); Publisher: Contemporary Books; Language: English; ISBN: 0844248665
Lonely Planet: Niger E Mali, Mauritania 
Paperback 416 pages (January 31, 2003); Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications - Italian editions; Language: Italian; ISBN: 8870636305

Transport / How do I travel to Mauritania

 Airports in Mauritania  -  see Aircraft-charter-world.com

 Atar Airport
 Nouadhibou Airport
 Nouakchott Airport  -  see Wikipedia
 Zouerate Airport

 Airline Tickets / Bargain Flights  -  price comaprison possible

 Air France US  -  Flight tickets to Mauritania [ via Paris ]
 Air France Canada
 Royal Air Maroc

 Air Mauritania  -  see Wikipedia
 Regional Air

 Maps of Mauritania [ Uni Texas - Perry-Castañeda Library - Map Collection ]


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 Travel Insurance

 Tourist Office of Mauritania

Mauritania isn't known as a tourist destination being poor and mostly desert. It is a harsh environment of shifting sand, dunes and rocky plateaux. The climate is dry all year round; rainfall is infrequent and sparse.
Although it is this very desolation that keeps mainstream tourism away, travelers learn to love Mauritania for the way it somehow fulfills romantic images of desert spaces - towns half blanketed in sand, nomads in colorful tents, lunar-like landscapes

 Government Mauritania [ Arab, French and English ] - see tourism

 Nouakchott
When Nouakchott was created in 1960, the site was many days walk from the desert, but is now entirely surrounded by the Sahara, with sand piling up against walls and fences like snow drifts.

 Adrar - Capital city is Atar.
 Assaba - Capital city is Kiffa.
 Brakna - Capital city is Aleg.
 Dakhlet Nouadhibou - Capital city is Nouadhibou.
 Gorgol  -  capital city Kaédi
Sur les bords du fleuve Sénégal, la région du Gorgol vous invite à découvrir son patrimoine naturel et humain.
 Guidimaka - Capital city is Sélibaby.
 Hodh Ech Chargui - Capital city is Néma.
 Hodh El Gharbi - Capital city is Aioun el Atrouss.
 Inchiri - Capital city is Akjoujt.
 Tagant - Capital city is Tidjikdja.
 Tiris Zemmour - Capital city is Zouérate.
 Trarza - Capital city is Rosso.

 Aioun el Atrouss  -  Capital city of district Hodh El Gharbi
 Akjoujt  -  Capital city of district Inchiri
 Aleg  -  Capital city of district Brakna
 Atar  -  Capital city of district Adrar
 Boutilimit - 
Important center of religious scholarship and training since its founding by an Islamic mystic and scholar in the 19th Century.
 Chinguetti  -  Medieval trading centre in northern Mauritania
Located on the Adrar Plateau east of Atar
 Kaédi  -  Capital city of district Gorgol
 Kiffa  -  Capital city of district Assaba
 Kobenni  -  border town ??
 Kouroudjel
 Kankossa  -  near the border of Mali
 Néma  -  Capital city of district Hodh Ech Chargui
 Nouadhibou  -  Capital city of district Dakhlet Nouadhibou
Located on the eastern side of a peninsula. Formerly Port-Étienne. Today the second largest city in Mauritania and the country's commercial center.
 Rosso  -  Capital city of district Trarza
 Sangrafa
 Sélibaby  -  Capital city of district Guidimaka
 Teguenent  -  see Le village Teguenent  -  village in the southeast of Tagant
 Tidjikdja  -  Capital city of district Tagant
 Zouérate  -  Capital city of district Tiris Zemmour


 News from Mauritania  -  Nouakchott Info
 Radio in Mauritania  -  Radio Mauritanie [ state-run ]
 University of Mauritania  -  University of Nouakchott

Conflicts in Mauritania

Underlying ethnic conflict between 'white' and 'black' moors and black Africans [ the latter often descended from haratin - freed slaves ]. Slavery was officially banned [ 20 years ago ], but suspected to persists to this day.

Cuisine - Mauritanian Recipes

The Best of African Cooking 
By Manjase Banda (Author), Esanjam (Producer)
Paperback: 144 pages; Publisher: Esanjam; 2 Revised edition (March 14, 2007); Language: English; ISBN-10: 0954682130; ISBN-13: 978-0954682132
 African Recipes

History of Mauritania

Independence: 28 November 1960 (from France)

From the 3rd to 7th century, the migration of Berber tribes from North Africa displaced the Bafours, the original inhabitants of present-day Mauritania and the ancestors of the Soninke. Continued Arab-Berber migration drove indigenous black Africans south to the Senegal River or enslaved them. By 1076, Islamic warrior monks ([ lmoravid or Al Murabitun ] completed the conquest of southern Mauritania, defeating the ancient Ghana Empire. Over the next 500 years, Arabs overcame fierce Berber resistance to dominate Mauritania.  See for more Mauritania's History at Wikipedia ( Pre-colonization; French colonization and post -colonial history; Recent political coups [ June 2003 Coup, August 2005 coup ] )
 Ancient History Source Book - Mauritania  -  Accounts of Ancient Mauritania, c. 430 BCE- 550 CE
** Herodotus: The Histories, c. 430 B.C., Book IV.
** Strabo: Geography, c. 22 A.D., XVII.iii.1-11.
** Procopius of Caesarea: History of the Wars, c. 550 A.D. Books III.xxv.3-9; IV.vi.10-14, vii.3, xi.16-20, xiii.26-29

Music, Arts & Culture, Events & Entertainment

 Music of Mauritania [ Wikipedia ]
Mauritania's largest ethnic group is the Moors. In Moorish society, musicians occupy the lowest caste, iggawin, who used song to praise successful warriors as well as their patrons...

 Centre Culturel Français de Nouakchott 
See Festival International des Musiques Nomades and National Film Festival
 Fondation Nationale pour la Sauvegarde des Villes Ancienned de Mauretanie

 Tourath.mr [ PSVPCM ] 
Projet de Sauvegarde et de Valorisation du Patrimoine Culturel Mauritanien

Web Portals / Search Engine / Mauritania Directory

 Inforim.mr  -  La Mauritanie Online  -  Tout sur la Mauritanie
 Marweb.com - Mauritanie 
 Embassy of Mauritania in Canada [ Ottawa ]  -  See Discover Mauritania
 Mauritania [.al-bab.com ]
 Mauritanie de Tergit à Chinguetti  -  80 km à pied pour découvrir le désert Mauritanien
 Terre Mauritanie  -  Mauritania Hotel and Guest house, villa rental

 La Mauritanie en 1999  -  trip Bernard Cloutier

 BBC Country Profile Mauritania
One of Africa's newest oil producers, Mauritania bridges the Arab Maghreb and western sub-Saharan Africa . The largely-desert country presents a cultural contrast, with an Arab-Berber population to the north and black Africans to the south. Many of its people are nomads ...
 Yahoo Mauritania Directories


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