Description
Near Atar lie two oasis villages, Terjit and Mhaïreth, set in a mountainous landscape featuring table-like mountains.
Terjit lies in a narrow gorge between high rock faces. Water flows continuously through the gorge from a spring, creating a green strip of date palms here.
As soon as we get out of the car, thirty children come running towards us. There is a striking variety of building styles: round, square, flat-roofed, domed, natural stone, mud; for example, tikitts, traditional huts with parts made from palm leaves.
Mhaïreth is an elongated green agricultural area in a wadi, wedged between rocky desert regions.
Men scoop a mixture into a sort of mould, tamp it down and then leave it in the sun to dry until it forms building blocks. There are few other adults to be seen on the streets.
We visited Mauritania on our overland trip by car (a Toyota LandCruiser 4WD campervan) from West-Africa; see our channel https://www.youtube.com/user/JanvanBekkum for hundreds of clips. More clips of Mauritania can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMYlw_C7EP8KqyTKPnPCZ38MjsZxf_bkB.
Music and/or sound effects:
- 'Tranquil Fields Eastern' performed by Alexander Nakarada, distributed by Free Stock Music (free-stock-music.com);
- 'Arabic sadness' created by Serge Quadrado Music" and disctributed by Pixabay (https://pixabay.com/). Applicable license terms: https://pixabay.com/service/license-summary/;
- 'Symphony of the Streets. Hip-Hop Background Music for video 60 second' created by Maksim Dudchyk and uploadexd from Pixbay (https://pixabay.com/nl/music/orkestraal-symphony-of-the-streets-hip-hop-background-music-for-video-60-second-476679/).;
- 'Calm inspiring technology logo short version' created by Alex Zavesa, distributed by Pixabay (https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/film-special-effects-calm-inspiring-technology-logo-short-version-518993/).