Getting around Mauritania can also prove to be a challenging part of living in and visiting the country. Taxis brousses are the main means for traveling between towns and often entail squeezing into a Peugeot 504 with eight or nine other people (sometimes one person sits to the left of the driver!) or sitting on top of luggage in the back of a pickup truck with 20 other people and rumbling along sandy roads through the desert. Some regional capitals offer plane service to and from Nouakchott that is both affordable and fairly reliable and safe.
Air Lines that serve Mauritania
Air Mauritania - This link does not always work, and when it does, the information is not necessarily correct. Best bet is to call the airline at 525 27 21 / 525 22 11 / 525 22 18.
Air France - 525 18 02 / 525 18 08
Royal Air Morac - 525 35 64
Air Senegal International
Air Senegal - 525 05 84
CMTA - Compagnie Mauritanienne des Transports -- 525 12 37
Air Algerie - 525 20 59 / 525 44 04
Tunis Air - 525 87 62 / 525 87 63
Hotels
Nouakchott
Embassies in Nouakchott
Algerian | | 525 35 69 / 525 40 07 |
Chinese | | 525 20 70 |
Congolese | | 525 28 36 / 525 28 42 |
Egyptian | | 525 21 92 / 525 48 01 |
European Union | | 525 27 24 or 32 |
French | | 525 17 40 / 45 or 57 |
French Cultural Center | | 525 25 46 |
German | | 525 10 32 / 525 17 29 |
Israeli | | 525 46 10 / 648 00 69 |
Kuwaiti | | 525 40 01 / 525 41 11 |
Malian | | 525 40 78 / 525 40 81 |
Moroccan | | 525 14 11 |
Nigerian | | 525 57 54 |
Palestinian | | 525 39 93 |
Qatari | | 525 15 62 / 525 23 99 |
Russian | | 525 22 72 / 525 19 73 |
Saudi Arabian | | 525 26 33 / 525 16 69 |
Senegalese | | 525 72 90 |
Spanish | | 525 20 80 / 525 25 79 |
Syrian | | 525 27 54 |
Tunisian | | 525 28 71 |
United Arab Emirates | | 525 09 30 |
Yemeni | | 525 55 91 |
Links
Mauritanian Search Engine