Mauritania isn’t typically a major tourist destination. But its only railway has recently become the subject of a viral TikTok travel trend: riding the “Iron Ore Train.” This 437-mile ...

The Mauritania Iron Ore Train ride is a 17-hour free train ride across a barren stretch of the Sahara and has become TikTok’s hottest travel experience. It’s a wild way to experience a whole ...

Few, unlike Croatian newlyweds Kristijan and Andrea Ilicic, opt for a freight train carrying wagons of dirty iron ore across the baking hot deserts of Mauritania in northwest Africa. The couple ...

The Société Nationale Industrielle et Minière (SNIM) is progressing with plans to modernise and expand Mauritania’s key railway infrastructure, a project currently under appraisal with the European ...

One of the world's most remote railway stations is located deep in the Western Sahara along a 435-mile stretch of track. Choum railway station in Mauritania doesn't have a single platform and its ...

A colossal cargo train in northwest Africa is one of the heaviest in the world and is so long you can barely make out the wagons at the back as it zooms past. Mauritania's desert train ...

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