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“LA ROUTE DE L’ESPOIR” (ROAD OF HOPE) (Page 2)
TINTANE
Tintane is a new city which is experiencing rapid growth. It is more and more a stopover for truck-drivers. The backcountry is a rich agrarian zone. In town one will find many small restaurants.
AIOUN EL ATROUSS
It is 610 km from Nouakchott; 167 km from Nioro of the Sahel (Mali); 280 km from Néma. Aioun is the chief town of the Relief EL Gharbi and a crossroad city towards others like Hodh, Kiffa, towards Mali via Nioro. It is a market city in full expansion and modernization. The site is very beautiful and the landscapes are imposing one such exemple is the Guelb Inimich, a small and solid Massif which overlooks the city. It is a much-visited place.
This city is beginning to receive tourists. The hotel installations are correct although embryonic. The city offers multiple landscapes, iether desert and mountainous. Moreover much of the houses are made partly of local cut stones. The city itself is rather well provided in products of all kinds.
HOTEL - LODGING
TOURIST COMPLEXES SADECK, TEL: 222-5151492
SAADA TENZAH, TEL: 222-5296102, FAX: 222-5298829
HOTEL AIOUN, with the downtown area, TEL: 222-5151462
USEFUL TELEPHONE NUMBERS
- Wali: 222-515 1320, fax: 222-515 1302
- Hakem (Prefect): 222-515 1420
- Regional police force 222-515 1308
- Police station: 222-515 1333
- National education (Dref): 222-515 1455
- Regional direction of Health: 222-515 1355
- Regional hospital: 222-5151327
- Air Mauritania: 222-515 1378
- Western union, Money Transfers,
Principal avenue, in front of the National Guard.
Tel: 222-515 14 62
Located 84 km from AIOUN you will be able to go to Tamchekett, a city partly covered in sand and picturesque. There you can visit the site of Aoudaghost, in the Rkiz Massif. Aoudaghost was a stopover for the Empire of Ghana. Occupied by Almoravides in 1054.
The excavations highlighted much archaeological richness.
The zone of Tamchekett is as a fact an archaeological mine.
Aioun-Koumbi Saleh is 235km, 3h30
TIMBEDRA is 170 km from Aioun.
It is a City, which is experiencing a fast development. Timbédra is a rural city dominated by the industry of breeding. The city is a Center for the trade of the herds of bovidae and “camélidés”. Timbédra opens the way towards Koumbi Saleh, the capital of the one of the oldest African empires, the Empire of Ghana. Koumbi Saleh is at 65 km of Timbédra. The excavations there highlighted the old necropolis, mosque and several buildings.
NEMA
It is 280 from Aioun, 110 km from Timbedra, Nouakchott, 1100
Néma is the chief town of Hodh Echarghi. Offering an international airport, the city can develop a great tourist potential. The proximity to Oualata but also of Mali and more particularly of Tombouctou (at 500 km) will be helpful in this direction.
Currently, tourism develops more or less rapidly. Nema is especially a commercial city, an agricultural metropolis.
LODGING:
HOTEL DE NIMA (THE HOTEL OF NEMA), new
L’AUBERGE DU XXI SIECLE (THE INN OF THE XXIth century).
Oualata is 120 km from Néma on a chaotic but passable trail feasible in 3 hours. Further towards the south and toward the south-east there is Djigueni, a town of herd breeding.
Bassiknou, is not far from the border of Mali.
SEE ANCIENT CITIES
USEFUL TELEPHONE NUMBERS
- Wali: 222-5130302, 222- 513 0402
- Hakem (Prefect): 222-513 0329
- Regional police force 222-513 0364, 222-513 0304
- Police station: 222- 513
- National education: 222-513 0344
- Regional direction of Health: 222- 513 0337
- Regional hospital: 222-513 0780
- Customs office: 222-5130340
- Air Mauritania: 222-513 0550
- Western union, Transfer of money,
central market of Nema,
Tel: 222-5513 0100; 222-513 0361
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