by Calvin Sun | Jan 26, 2020 | January 2020: The Saharan Odyssey, Mauritania, Way Way Off the Beaten Path
Not gonna lie, as punny as our blogpost title is today, it did jinx me: Royal Air Maroc just cancelled one of my flight legs home, so I had to rebook at the last minute via a Turkish Airlines alternative thanks to satellite internet…but hey, that comes...
by Calvin Sun | Jan 25, 2020 | January 2020: The Saharan Odyssey, Mauritania, Way Way Off the Beaten Path
After an early breakfast in Ouadane we departed another drive out into the desert for Agrour to see some pre-historic paintings left there more than 6000 years ago. Do you see the imprint of the human hand underneath the sun?Humans?...
by Calvin Sun | Jan 24, 2020 | January 2020: The Saharan Odyssey, Mauritania, Way Way Off the Beaten Path
After exploring Chinguetti early this morning we then headed off for a 1-2 hour drive into the Adrar region of Mauritania, stopping at isolated and lost cities of the Sahara where empires were founded and felled. Once upon a time these were...
by Calvin Sun | Jan 24, 2020 | January 2020: The Saharan Odyssey, Mauritania, Way Way Off the Beaten Path
After disembarking from a train journey of a lifetime, we drove out towards a campsite outside of Choum by 1am and spent the rest of the night in our tents. The stars here are unbelievable. When the sun rose at 8am, we woke up to a picnic...
by Calvin Sun | Jan 23, 2020 | How Did You Do That?, January 2020: The Saharan Odyssey, Mauritania, Public Transportation, Rules Are Meant To Be Broken, Way Way Off the Beaten Path, What Dreams May Come
Today we did a thing: We began in Nouadhibou where we picked up some supplies for the epic train journey ahead.If you’re serious about this experience, you should definitely pack goggles, warm blankets, scarves, some sort of...
by Calvin Sun | Jan 21, 2020 | Fail, Getting that VISA, How Did You Do That?, January 2020: The Saharan Odyssey, Mauritania, Public Transportation, Way Way Off the Beaten Path, What Dreams May Come
After relaxing in Dakhla for 2 night, we drove to the border of Morocco and Mauritania early this morning. About an hour into the journey we suffered a flat tire, which luckily took about 30 minutes to sort out thanks to a friend of the driver’s...
