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Mauritania - Chinguetti - A man walks over a dune overlooking Chinguetti
A man walks over a dune overlooking Chinguetti,Mauritania. His Boubou flapping in the wind..Once one of Islam's holiest cities (today it is regarded as the seventh holiest city) Chinguetti has been dated at a around seven hundred, (700) years old and is famed for it's Koranic libraries and distinctive mosque, Mauritania. From the story "The Wind and the City".
Author: ©Stuart Freedman
©Stuart Freedman
Photo size: 1.7 Mpixels (4.82 MB uncompressed) - 1600x1054 pixels (5.3x3.5 in / 13.5x8.9 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: A man climbs a dune. Chinguetti, 2003