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Mauritania's Adrar region (
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) is where the Sahara desert gets serious - rocky
escarpments and grand canyons give way to an ocean of sand, dotted with palm-fringed
oases. Start at the gateway town of Atâr and head into the heart of the desert by 4WD or
camel, making sure to take in the remote caravan towns of Chinguetti, Ouadâne and Terjît,
part of the ancient network of trade and cultural exchange that stitched the desert together
from Timbuktu in the south to Marrakesh in the north.
