Quart Baggie For Flying

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from Nouadhibou, we take the asphalt road to the south. After about 200 km we drive from the main road heading west into the open terrain. We follow some traces of sand and rubble. Andis agent and Corinna's GPS, we can orient ourselves in the terrain very well. Time and again we pass soft sand stretches between the sand dunes, and finally, Finally, the Land Rover is in animal welfare! You can hear the engine

quasi cheer ... with no problem mastering the all-wheel drive on the sand. At deeper sites help from the off-road gear. We move about 40 km across the desert before a half-way runway used encounter that leads us directly into the National Park. With the two SUVs we can enjoy the beautiful landscape of soft rolling dunes under clear blue skies. Finally, the trail leads closer to the Atlantic, which also applies here directly on the desert landscape. We set up camp at the Cape on Taragit - 100 yards the beach. Evening by the fire, we observe gerbils, spiders and a number of different rolling Wüst cornered animal. The next morning found all around our storage defects of jackal and Desert Fox (all easily identifiable through the cosmos leader "Sahara", a really useful gift to my mother, in addition to the annual pajamas!). The next day we drive through the park towards the south, the dunes are getting higher and eventually surrender, the somewhat weaker engine of the VW bus. We drive back towards the asphalt road and after a night on under the desert sky (this time we find a whole camel skeleton), we reach Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania.

around Nouakchott is a five kilometer-wide belt of rubbish and car wrecks - not unusual for African cities. The city itself turns out to be quite pleasant - lots of small restaurants and cafes along with the villas of the messages line the boulevards of the city. Mauritania's population is generally very friendly but reserved, exceptions are only a few police checkpoints, the "Gifts" claim. We plan to stay here two days before the trip to the Senegal river to go further.