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Mauritania: A rare glimpse at one of the world's least-visited nations
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260710-mauritania-a-rare-glimpse-at-one-of-the-worlds-least-visited-nations
(Based, Located, Settled, Fixed, Planted) almost entirely in the Sahara, Mauritania is …….. to centuries-old cities, desert oases and a coastal spectacle so vast you can see it from space.
LOCATED HOME
In an age when it's increasingly easy to explore the furthest (ranges, reaches, spans, scopes) of the world – from the tallest mountains to the most remote islands – there are still entire countries that few travellers ever see. One ……… place is Mauritania.
REACHES SUCH
With approximately 90% of its land located ……. the Sahara Desert, Mauritania is one of the world's least-(densely, thickly, closely, tightly, compactly) populated and least-visited nations.
WITHIN DENSELY
Because of a lack of tourism …….. and security concerns, fewer than 10,000 international travellers arrive each year in the sand-swept, sun-(burned, bleached, ashened, dimmed) country, compared to several million who visit neighbouring Algeria and Senegal.
INFRASTRUCTURE BLEACHED
But Mauritania hasn't suffered a terrorist attack since 2011, and ……. to the Global Terrorism Index, the nation is less (affected, influenced, struck, maimed) by terrorism than most European nations.
ACCORDING AFFECTED
During a recent three-week solo journey, I used a mixture of public transportation and 4x4 hired pick-ups to (intersect, network, intertwine, crisscross) the nation, and never once felt ……...
CRISSCROSS UNSAFE
Along the way, I discovered mythical desert oases, fabled cities that once f……. along trans-Saharan trade routes (exercised, functioned, catered, issued, plied) by camel caravans and a fishing culture along its Atlantic coast so rich you can see glimpses of it from space.
FLOURISHING PLIED
After ……. the border from Western Sahara, my Mauritanian (pilgrimage, quest, safari, odyssey) started in Nouadhibou, the country's second-largest city and its most important fishing port.
CROSSING ODYSSEY
Thanks to the Canary Current, which pulls deep, …….-rich waters up towards the surface along Mauritania's northern coast, huge concentrations of sardinella, mackerel, sabres and octopus (bloom, thrive, evolve, wax) here.
NUTRIENT THRIVE
As such, thousands of fishing pirogues dock along the harbour, waiting for the right conditions to ……. their nets. The (compactness, condensation, cluster, concentration) of boats is so vast that it even is visible from space.
CAST CONCENTRATION
"Welcome to Mauritania!" a man in a small black sedan said to me when I (signalled, hailed, shouted, flagged) down a taxi in Nouakchott after a seven-hour bus …….. south from Nouadhibou.
FLAGGED RIDE
The man refused to accept ……. for the ride and then clarified: "I'm not a taxi. I only (took, picked, gathered, chose) you up because you're a foreigner and I wanted to know what you think of my country."
PAYMENT PICKED
…….. one-third of Mauritania's five million people live in its coastal capital, Nouakchott.
ROUGHLY
Dynamic, noisy and vibrant, Nouakchott (remembered, recalled, reminded, recollected) me of many African capitals at first ………., but with one important exception: it seems to rise magically from the Sahara.
REMINDED GLANCE