Mauritania is a land of extremes. Extreme heat and cold. Extreme wind and sand. Extreme difficulties to just living. Yet the Mauritanians take all of this in stride. Even though their homes are being buried by the advancing Sahara, they still have the most amazing outlook on life. The land is amazing with stark and vast open desert, the most exoctic of sand dunes and oases and harsh rocky mesas and plateaus. Even more impressive is that amongst all this harshness, the people concern themselves with the rememberance of God and keep a 1400 year old tradition alive and thriving as they teach and preseve Islamic Law, Quranic Recitation and the Prophetic Traditons. A truly amazing place.

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