As Mauritania’s largest national park, and a UNESCO World Heritage site, Banc d’Arguin is a must-see attraction. It’s a protected coastline showing off naked, pristine Atlantic waters covering 12,000 km2 between Nouadhibou and Nouakchott. Banc d’Arguin was designated a world heritage site in 1982 because of its fishing villages that have maintained an isolated mariner’s way of life for centuries.
The most popular tourist draw for visitors coming to Mauritania… the iron ore desert train is an adventure travelers dream. The train ports…
A natural anomaly without firm explanation, the Richat Structure (also called the “Eyes of the Sahara”) is one of the only geological structures…
A popular attraction showing off a major highlight of the trans-Saharan trade route. Chinguetti is several hundred years old, the current city is…
Makhrougat is the home of the Elephant Mountains and “The Fingers”. These are rock formations that rise abruptly from the soft desert sand,…
