#iT THAT YHE EYE OF THE SAHARA??? MAURITANIA!!!!

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For my Global Dtudies class in hs I randomly picked a country to plan a 10day tour and I got... you guessed it MAURITANIA!!!

This fascinating West African nation has limited online travel information, but I had fun and learned alot making up a fake vacation.

You bet your ass I included the Eye of the Sahara. Along with a scenic ride on the longest train track in the world, riding in style on top of the open iron ore cars! There's also a bunch of UNESCO world heritage sides, bird sancuaries, and seaside cities. I made a homemade brochure and everything

Highly recommend randomly picking a place and finding as much as you can about that one place.

Ok I'll bite

What is your special interest and do you have any fun facts about it?

ok there's this thing in the sahara desert called the Richat Structure. It's 30 miles wide, it can only really be seen from space. it just looks like this giant fucking EYE in the middle of the desert. i came across it by accident while just scrolling around on google earth like a decade ago and went HUH???? cause it's so creepy and weird so then I got obsessed.

basically scientists think it's a highly eroded dome and not an impact site or man-made or anything. a bunch of different kinds of rock are exposed in concentric rings. however, it is an archeological site and they've found a bunch of Archeulean tools and artifacts in great condition there (like stone axes and stuff from homo erectus). archeologists think this area was used in tool manufacturing.

im just totally fascinated i think it's cool as hell