Now it's back to Nouakchott for site visit. Normally this is a volunteers first chance to get away from their training site and have a look at their specific reality for the next couple years. Since those of us in the IT sector had already spent a couple weeks in Nouakchott, this was an opportunity to get back to the big city and also get our first 'taxi brousse' experience. In much of West Africa one can travel between cities by buying a seat in a car. Often these are beat up old Peugeot station wagons known as 'sept place's because there are seven passenger seats. Well, in Mauritania they go by the same name, but they actually sell nine seats. This means two people in the front bucket seat and four people in the middle row. Not the most comfortable situation when one has a 400 Km journey ahead. Luckily, on this specific trip the Peace Corps rented the whole taxi and only stuffed six of us into it.
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