White, pink, and golden sands cover the beaches and desert of Mauritania. Desert winds whip whirls of sand as they sweep across the country. Atlantic trade winds bring a calming breeze to coast. Small cities and towns dot the country between two opposing forces of nature: ocean and hot desert. In Mauritania, you will find many such contradictions. You will find a friendly, but troubled, people. Tourists are a novelty, but civil unrest is part of the reason there are so few foreigners.

Many languages are commonly spoken in Mauritania, but English isn

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