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...