Posts tagged ‘mauritania’
audio, soundscapes posted by listentoafrica on Aug 13th, 2009
Ah, Terjit. On the evening of the day we left Atar, we crawled into Terjit Oasis – almost literally – with broken bikes and suffering bodies (more about all that soon, in the blog). Streams, rockpools (to swim in!), date palms, toads, glow worms, fireflies, cicadas, birds: a feast for our ears and eyes after two months of deserts and cities.
Date and time recorded: 06:50 local time, 9th August 2009
Location: Terjit Oasis, Mauritania (view on map)
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Tags: adrar, africa, audio, deserts, mauritania, nature, oasis, sahara, sounds, soundscapes, terjit, travel, west africa, wildlife
Blog posted by bex on Aug 6th, 2009
An overnight train journey across the Sahara in an iron ore wagon, a failed attempt at cycling through the desert, paralysing heat and black eyes, and the kindness of a Mauritania we’re just starting to get to know.
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Tags: adventure, africa, atar, choum, cycling, deserts, longest train, marriage, mauritania, nouadhibou, sahara, trains, transport, travel, travelogue, women
audio, soundscapes, wildlife posted by listentoafrica on Aug 1st, 2009
A large, mixed group of terns, recorded at the Cap Blanc peninsula reserve in northern Mauritania. The group was dominated by Caspian Terns, but included other terns which we weren’t able to conclusively identify; the Little, Sandwich, Royal and Gull-Billed Terns are all found in this area.
Species: Sterna caspia and other terns
Common name (English): Caspian Tern and other terns
Date and time recorded: 14:30 local time, 30th July 2009
Location: Cap Blanc, Mauritania (view on map)
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Tags: africa, birds, cap blanc, caspian tern, mauritania, nature, nouadhibou, soundscape, sterna caspia, terns, wildlife
Blog posted by bex on Jul 31st, 2009
Two weeks in Nouadhibou: lazing, learning and meeting some of this town’s community of exiles and would be emigrants. And cooking camel blognaise.
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Tags: abderrahmane sissako, africa, AIDS, cycling, dervla murphy, emigration, exiles, mauritania, mediterranean monk seals, ngos, nomadic, nouadhibou, poverty, sahara, street life, trains, transport, travel, waiting for happiness
Blog posted by bex on Jul 29th, 2009
For the benefit of any other web-hungry itinerants travelling through Africa, I thought I’d share our learning experiences of managing a website and using mobile technology during our cycling tour in Africa.
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Tags: africa, cdma, chinguitel, cycling, expeditions, gprs, gsm, mauritania, mobile broadband, mobiles, senegal, technology, travel, west africa, wireless broadband
Blog posted by bex on Jul 27th, 2009
Our first three conversations in Mauritania: sex, terrorism and global acclaim.
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Tags: africa, al qaeda, aqim, cycling, mauritania, nouadhibou, travel, travelogues
audio, soundscapes posted by listentoafrica on Jul 27th, 2009
Mauritania’s 2.5 kilometre long iron ore train is usually described as the world’s longest train. We recorded this – our first attempt to record in stereo – by the train tracks in the outskirts of Nouadhibou on a very windy day, and getting very strange looks from the women walking past to collect their water.
Recorded on: 24th July 2009, 15:30 local time.
Location: Nouadhibou, Mauritania (view on map)
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audio, travelogues posted by listentoafrica on Jul 25th, 2009
In this second “Bike Mic” recording, Huw describes what he sees as we pedal out of the desert and into Nouadhibou, a few hours – and a world – away from Western Sahara.
Recorded on: 17th July 2009, 20:10 local time.
Location: Nouadhibou, northern Mauritania (view on map)
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Blog posted by bex on Jul 24th, 2009
Music and colour, sunlight and smiles, bureaucracy and political drama; we’ve reached West Africa – or at least, one of its far northern outposts in Mauritania.
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Tags: africa, bureaucracy, mauritania, north africa, travel, travelogue, visas, west africa, western sahara
Soundscape: Morning at Terjit Oasis 
Ah, Terjit. On the evening of the day we left Atar, we crawled into Terjit Oasis – almost literally – with broken bikes and suffering bodies (more about all that soon, in the blog). Streams, rockpools (to swim in!), date palms, toads, glow worms, fireflies, cicadas, birds: a feast for our ears and eyes after two months of deserts and cities. 
