Talk:Mauritania

Formatting and language conventions For articles about Mauritania, please use the 24-hour clock to show times, e.g. 09:00-12:00 and 18:00-00:00. Please show prices in this format: UM100, and not 100 أوقية‎‎, or MRU100. Please use American spelling.

This article contains content imported from the English Wikipedia article on Geography_of_Mauritania#Climate. View the page revision history for a list of the authors.

I deleted a note saying that the source for the intro was http://www.terremauritanie.com/ . First, we don't normally list sources for our articles, since it's not OK to copy info from other sites. Second, the note was inaccurate -- this page is pretty much purely a CIA World Factbook import. --(WT-en) Evan 11:12, 10 Jun 2004 (EDT)

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Is a Carnet de Passage needed?

Could someone confirm (and include in the article under "Get In / By Car" section) whether you need a Carnet de Passage in order to bring your car into Mauritania? I guess you don't need one, since my Lonely Planet guide says you don't need one, but on wikipedia Mauritania is listed among the countries where it is helpful to have one. Also, I do feel that it is a rather important information to have if you're planning on entering Mauritania by car.

--Hello! No, I did not need a carnet at the border. Border procedings were professional (no requests for bribes), cost exactly 20 euros, and I bought insurance in Noubadou (for a whopping $5) and did my exchanging there for far better rates than the border ppl were giving. It took 2 hours to get through both the Morocco and Mauritania sides of the border. - Nick

Looklex

http://lexicorient.com/mauritania/z_costs.htm

"Regulations say that every foreigner visiting the country must spend US$30 daily, and this is all controlled, by looking at cards you're supposed to carry. While US$30 is a lot for daily expenses in North Africa, you could soon find out that it is not enough in Mauritania. The price level in Mauritania is frankly unbelievable."

Can this really be true? It is not even on this site, but it seems pretty important. If it is correct, should it be added into this article? ((WT-en) SebastianGS 14:36, 2 July 2008 (EDT))

not true.(WT-en) I remember Black Star North 13:20, 24 February 2009 (EST)

Not true, but ... Occasionally the Central Bank of Mauritania places strict controls on foreign currency exchange which means that tourists are sometimes asked for receipts of their foreign exchange made in country when they leave. [User:Nkosi]

Sex?

In fact, if you have a boyfriend, not a series of boyfriends, most people are a bit flattered. The men are pretty uninhibited, very sensual, and can be lots of fun.

• Hmm, English is not my mother language... to me, that sounds like it recommends girls to get laid by locals? If so, I think it's not a thing that should be in a travel guide. If not, someone should rewrite it, to make more clear what is meant. --(WT-en) MrTweek 08:35, 8 October 2009 (EDT)

Regions

As with Chad, I like the idea of using the climatic zones of Mauritania as travel regions. That would give us four regions:

• Coastal Mauritania
• Saharan Mauritania
• Sahelian Mauritania
• Senegal River Valley

Thoughts please.--(WT-en) Burmesedays 06:39, 4 March 2010 (EST)

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Bit of a rethink while drawing it. The proposed Senegal River Valley region would have been tiny, and almost irrelevant to the traveller I think. So just the three regions are proposed:

• Coastal Mauritania
• Sahelian Mauritania
• Saharan Mauritania

I must say it was a very dull map to draw. Not a lot going on. There is no UN map for Mauritania which makes the source material a bit limited. For boundaries I have used a mixture of hill ranges, satelite images and provincial boundaries. Comments please before I do the regionalisation work. --(WT-en) Burmesedays 03:00, 5 March 2010 (EST)

In the Sahel, I think climactic regions are almost always most important (desert v. sahel). This looks like the most sensible division, although I won't pretend to have useful comments on the exact borders ;) --(WT-en) Peter ^Talk 18:16, 9 March 2010 (EST)

Pagebanner

I suppose that this change should be reverted as per 4th bullet of the banner policy. Or, to create a new banner for the Atar article. --Andyrom75 (talk) 08:10, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Yes. In any case, it was a unilateral change, and changes of pagebanner should be by consensus on the relevant talk page. Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:13, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

History

There have been a couple of attempts to give a very brief history of Mauritania. These have been reverted. It seems that a short paragraph on the history of a country would assist a traveller. What do contributors think? Trishandrichard (talk) 10:06, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

I'm not sure why it was removed, so I've restored it, but anyone feel free to revert me as well if there's a no-no in there. Brycehughes (talk) 11:20, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

They were removed because they were added by a block-evading sockpuppet who has been disrupting this site for a good part of a decade now. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 12:33, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

Ah, sweet. Brycehughes (talk) 13:29, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

I mean I don't blame you guys for not knowing – on the face of it his edits appear to look good, but most often they contain factual inaccuracies and copyright violations. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 21:33, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

Fair enough. I can revert myself if you'd like? Or what do you think is best here? Oh nevermind, didn't scroll far enough down the watchlist. Brycehughes (talk) 23:18, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

thanks for explaining why the history was reverted. I thought it may have been wrong format or heading or some such thing Trishandrichard (talk) 04:01, 28 August 2024 (UTC)