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a series of travel images from Africa, Mauritania, a country in Northwest Africa geographically part of the Maghreb. This region includes Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Western Sahara, Tunisia and Mauritania. The land consists for about 90% of Sahara Desert with a population of some 4.4 million living mainly in the more temperate south. Not a country which is on many travellers itinerary and for the last ten years considered quite unsafe. On this trip we visited from neighbouring Senegal.
Images 01-36 by Ferdinand Reus, 36-48 by Willem Proos.
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Pictures of Mauritania - proud men and their camels, Mauritanian desert
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Pictures of Mauritania - a Bedouin man
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Pictures of Mauritania - the village of Bareina in the south
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Pictures of Mauritania - a family portrait
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Pictures of Mauritania - local transport in Nouakchott
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Pictures of Mauritania - man relaxing outside his house
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Pictures of Mauritania - Quran lessons, boys writing texts on planks
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Pictures of Mauritania - portrait of a man and his turban
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Pictures of Mauritania - men catching a young camel
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Pictures of Mauritania - village kids posing
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Pictures of Mauritania - ochre wall and colourful dress
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Pictures of Mauritania - two friends posing
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Pictures of Mauritania - men relaxing on the side of the street
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Pictures of Mauritania - Quran lessons, boys writing Quranic texts on planks
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Pictures of Mauritania - man carrying a bag of milkpowder
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Pictures of Mauritania - man with beard and turban
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Pictures of Mauritania - boy poring tea
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Pictures of Mauritania - friendly face, portrait of a man
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Pictures of Mauritania - woman preparing food
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Pictures of Mauritania - mosque, minaret on the edge of the desert
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Pictures of Mauritania - a Bedouin man and his turban
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Pictures of Mauritania - a woman and her daughter, edge of the desert
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Pictures of Mauritania - a mysterious look, Bedouin man
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Pictures of Mauritania - woman carrying pots on her head, toddler on the back
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Pictures of Mauritania - local transport, road to Senegal
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Pictures of Mauritania - smiling girl
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Pictures of Mauritania - local transport, loaded to the hilt
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Pictures of Mauritania - a friendly face, portrait of a man
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Pictures of Mauritania - smiling woman
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Pictures of Mauritania - young man in traditional desert outfit
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Pictures of Mauritania - merry boys posing
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Pictures of Mauritania - the bus from Nouakchott to Rosso
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Pictures of Mauritania - boys playing, eating bread
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Pictures of Mauritania - old Peugeot 404 pickup, local transport
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Pictures of Mauritania - semi-wild donkeys in the south
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Pictures of Mauritania - brightly colored pot
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Pictures of Mauritania - Bedouin tent, desert landscape in the south
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Pictures of Mauritania - drinking tea with a Bedouin family
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Pictures of Mauritania - where the desert meets the ocean
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Pictures of Mauritania - roaming camels in the south
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Pictures of Mauritania - Bedouin girls
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Pictures of Mauritania - shy Bedouin girl
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Pictures of Mauritania - patterns in the sand, desert
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Pictures of Mauritania - Bedouin man and tent, desert landscape
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Pictures of Mauritania - Bedouin man and turban
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Pictures of Mauritania - Bedouin girl
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Pictures of Mauritania - Bedouin man and indigo turban
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Pictures of Mauritania - footsteps in the sand, desert landscape