Archive for August, 2009
Banc D’Arguin, Mauritiana
Banc D’Arguin is a national park where the Sahara meets the Ocean. It’s a 160 km stretch along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean that serves as the home of 280 bird species and more than 2.5 million people. The variety of plant life and animals is the highest in all of Mauritiana and is greenest and freshest place of the desert country. There’s a small entrance fee you need to pay to get into the national park but you’ll need to hire a boat in order to get around. Another attraction offered by Banc D’Arguin are the seven villages occupied by the Imragen people. There are about 500 Imragens that live off fishing. The best time to visit them is in November, the season for fishing yellow mullet, because they use the dolphins to lead the fish towards the shore.