BASICS:
Getting around
Getting around Mauritania is a challenge, but offers some surprising short cuts. First the bad things: The railways are only great if you travel up north, there are no connections south of Nouadhibou. Roads are only acceptable in the southwest, plus the one road going inland from Nouakchott. Many major settlement have neither roads nor trains. But the good thing is that travelling with airplanes are quite cheap, efficient, and will reduce your feeling of Mauritania being an endless desert. Nouadhibou in the northwest, Atar in the north, Tidjikia in the middle, Nema in the east, Selibaby in the south are some of the destinations reached from Nouakchott.
