Oualata

Hodh Ech Chargui · Mauritania

Oualata, Mauritania
Photo: c.hug, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
November to February
Budget
$
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A remote World Heritage caravan town in southeastern Mauritania, famed for houses decorated with distinctive white geometric wall paintings. It was the southern terminus of a major trans-Saharan trade route.

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