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BASICS
Eat and sleep

Finding a room for the night should not be a problem in most places, even if some towns have no hotels. But paying could represent more of a problem. Prepare to pay US$20 for the most basic room. Good standards are within reach as soon as you pay more than US$100 a night. Nouakchott and Nouadhibou are the only places with more than one hotel, Chinguetti, a tourist trap by Mauritanian standards, has only one.
Eating is better, in terms of price. You should be able to get around on US$7 a day for food, but this involves a bit of Mauritanian fast food. Nouakchott and Nouadhibou have some nice restaurants, doing mainly foreign cuisines, like Chinese, Lebanese, and Moroccan. Eating here is quite reasonable, and a three course meal shouldn't set you back more than US$7- 10. Apart from this, Mauritanian food has been considered as dull and not tasteful, but the situation has been improved in recent years by better system of food distribution all over the country.

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