Getting around Mauritania can also prove to be a challenging part of living in and visiting the country. Taxis brousses are the main means for traveling between towns and often entail squeezing into a Peugeot 504 with eight or nine other people (sometimes one person sits to the left of the driver!) or sitting on top of luggage in the back of a pickup truck with 20 other people and rumbling along sandy roads through the desert. Some regional capitals offer plane service to and from Nouakchott that is both affordable and fairly reliable and safe.

Air Lines that serve Mauritania

Air Mauritania - This link does not always work, and when it does, the information is not necessarily correct. Best bet is to call the airline at 525 27 21 / 525 22 11 / 525 22 18.
Air France - 525 18 02 / 525 18 08
Royal Air Morac - 525 35 64
Air Senegal International
Air Senegal - 525 05 84
CMTA - Compagnie Mauritanienne des Transports -- 525 12 37
Air Algerie - 525 20 59 / 525 44 04
Tunis Air - 525 87 62 / 525 87 63

Hotels

Nouakchott

Embassies in Nouakchott

Algerian		525 35 69 / 525 40 07
Chinese		525 20 70
Congolese		525 28 36 / 525 28 42
Egyptian		525 21 92 / 525 48 01
European Union		525 27 24 or 32
French		525 17 40 / 45 or 57
French Cultural Center		525 25 46
German		525 10 32 / 525 17 29
Israeli		525 46 10 / 648 00 69
Kuwaiti		525 40 01 / 525 41 11
Malian		525 40 78 / 525 40 81
Moroccan		525 14 11
Nigerian		525 57 54
Palestinian		525 39 93
Qatari		525 15 62 / 525 23 99
Russian		525 22 72 / 525 19 73
Saudi Arabian		525 26 33 / 525 16 69
Senegalese		525 72 90
Spanish		525 20 80 / 525 25 79
Syrian		525 27 54
Tunisian		525 28 71
United Arab Emirates		525 09 30
Yemeni		525 55 91

Links

Mauritanian Search Engine