Jiri Kalat: The chaos of Mauretania

THIS LECTURE IS IN ENGLISH

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Morocco and Mauritania, two African countries, neighbors, but they are completely different. Mauritania, though torn between chaos and disorder, can offer wonderful pearls and incredible experiences. The eye of Africa is one of them, the ancient library at Chinguetti is another and for a 14-hour ride in a freight wagon of a train with iron ore nobody just forgets.
Morocco, on the other hand, offers luxury, beautiful monuments and a functioning infrastructure. Names like Tangier, Marrakesh or Sahara evoke the idea of the Orient in its purest form. It took me over forty days to go through both countries, more than six and a half thousand miles on a train, bus, jeep, hitchhiking, hiking in the mountains or sipping hundreds (maybe thousands) of berber whiskey glasses.
This lecture is all about this story.