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			expect it to be just another anonymous town, marked by the same blob 
			on the map as all the other boring towns of Mauritania; in fact it 
			is located in a stunning position at the foot of the mountains at 
			the beginning of a sea of apparently endless sand dunes...very 
			impressive from above.  OK, the town itself is nothing much to 
			write home about, but it is probably one of the more interesting 
			bits of Mauritania as far as landscape goes. 
	
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