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For those seeking a change of scenery, discovery, or adventure, Mauritania is the ideal destination. A vast country with 750 km of pristine beaches, unexplored islets, virgin sand dunes, mountain ranges crossed by sandy wadis and green palm groves, unusually shaped peaks, savannas, forests, and mangroves, the country offers an almost infinite variety of landscapes. But it is in the realm of culture that Mauritania offers you the most diversity: for thousands of years a meeting place and melting pot of cultures from both sides of the Sahara, these lands have developed a unique and singular culture over the centuries. The only country in the world where nomads have created transhumant universities, the inhabitants have also built caravan cities, four of which are classified as World Heritage Sites, where knowledge accompanied goods, where architecture blends Maghreb and Sahelian styles, where the cuisine is rich and varied, and the crafts ingenious and beautiful. It is also the place where you will find the legendary hospitality of the nomads, where you will always be welcomed with kindness and dignity. The starting point of the famous Almoravid epic, Mauritania is also the country where you can meet the NMADI, who still live by hunting in the desert, aided by their swift greyhounds, or the traditional Imraguen fishermen, who have developed an extraordinary bond with the dolphins, with whom they cooperate to catch yellow mullet, or the Thiouballos, traditional fishermen who have tamed the river spirits and hunt crocodiles while singing on their light canoes.