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Mauritania - Chinguetti - A man walks over a dune overlooking Chinguetti
A man walks over a dune overlooking Chinguetti, Mauritania. His robe or 'Boubou' flaps in the wind. Still regarded as the seventh holiest city in Islam, Chinguetti has been dated at a around seven hundred, (700) years old and is famed for it's Koranic libraries and distinctive mosque. The city however has been ravaged by the desert and the wind and is disappearing under the dunes.
Author: Stuart Freedman
©Stuart Freedman
Photo size: 18.3 Mpixels (52.5 MB uncompressed) - 5276x3476 pixels (17.6x11.6 in / 44.7x29.4 cm at 300 ppi)
Photo keywords: Africa, arab, Background, bo-bo, boubou, Chinguetti, cloak, desert, dry, dust, flap, footprints, heat, hot, islam, Mauritania, Mauritanian, Mauritiania, muslim, robe, Sahara, sand, sky, Texture, travel, wind, window
Published in: Mauritania - The Wind and the City