One day in Nouakchott, Mauritania
A day through Nouakchott’s best-known sights that lie close together: Friday Mosque of Nouakchott, National Museum of Mauritania, Mosque Marocaine, Ibn Abbas Mosque, Saudi Mosque and Mosque Tevragh Zeina. 6 stops, about 5.1 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.
The route
- Friday Mosque of NouakchottMosque · On the map
- National Museum of MauritaniaMuseum · 1.1 km on from Friday Mosque of Nouakchott · On the map
- Mosque MarocaineMosque · 1.2 km on from National Museum of Mauritania · On the map
- Ibn Abbas MosqueMosque · 0.8 km on from Mosque Marocaine · On the map
- Saudi MosqueMosque · 0.7 km on from Ibn Abbas Mosque · On the map
- Mosque Tevragh ZeinaMosque · 1.2 km on from Saudi Mosque · On the map
6 stops, 6.4 km on foot along the streets: about 1 h 17 min of walking.
More for Nouakchott
- Things to do in Nouakchott, Mauritania · 7 places to see, led by National Museum of Mauritania and Mosque Marocaine
Photo credits
- National Museum of Mauritania: Clemens Schmillen, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Mosque Marocaine: Ji-Elle, Public domain
- Ibn Abbas Mosque: Vouad1, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Saudi Mosque: Initsogan, Public domain
Pictures from Wikimedia Commons, through each place’s Wikidata entry.
Good to know
- Each day starts at the best-known place not yet seen and adds the best known within a short walk of it, then puts them in the shortest order. The places come from Wikidata (CC0), ranked by how many Wikipedias have an article about them.
- The map draws each day’s walk along the streets, routed by Valhalla on OpenStreetMap; the distances beside the stops are straight lines.
- Opening hours, tickets and closures are not checked: each place’s Wikipedia article has them.