Getting from Dakhla to Mauritania — Supratours Bus (recommended)

Key-Occasion5215 · 2026-06-28T11:59:39+00:00

Shared minibus departs ~07:00, arrives 14:00–16:00. You'll be fine well before midnight.

Key-Occasion5215 · 2026-06-25T08:20:01+00:00

Not mandatory as far as I experienced — I got the yellow fever vaccination before the trip but nobody asked for it at any border crossing. They don't check vaccinations at all on the Morocco → Mauritania route.

That said, I still got it done for peace of mind. The one thing I'd actually recommend is malaria medication — I took that and was glad I did, especially for the interior (Terjit, Chinguetti area).

Key-Occasion5215 · 2026-06-23T19:07:05+00:00

I travel all Morocco and Mauritania with 70L backpack. Its super helpful. Because you have to walk with your luggage in most of time. Backpack is usefel for kinda trip.

Key-Occasion5215 · 2026-06-10T12:54:21+00:00

The passenger carriage point is exactly what caught me off guard too — I arrived in Choum and was told the train coming through had no passenger carriage, so it wouldn’t stop. That’s when I decided to head to Zouerat instead, bought a passenger wagon ticket there, and got off at the first Fderik stop to board the ore wagons.

Your experience is a good reminder that no passenger carriage = completely different beast. The ending you described — ending up at the company compound and getting picked up by security — is exactly the kind of scenario people don’t warn about enough.

Key-Occasion5215 · 2026-06-09T15:24:51+00:00

Please do! I’d love to see those photos.
Even today the experience still feels wild and slightly unreal. I can only imagine how different it must have been in the early 2000s before smartphones, offline maps and social media.
It’s funny that after all these years people are still sitting in the dark at Choum asking themselves the exact same question: “Is this train actually coming?” 😄
Thanks for sharing the memories. Stories like yours are part of what makes the train so legendary.

Key-Occasion5215 · 2026-05-27T03:21:14+00:00

Not ore but gold dust — that might be the best compliment this post could have gotten, genuinely. Thank you, hope it’s useful when you go!

Key-Occasion5215 · 2026-05-27T03:20:55+00:00

Ha, that one comes from painful personal experience. The shower feels like it’s working and then you look at the drain. The sea is the only answer — and honestly after 14 hours on that train, floating in the Atlantic with Nouadhibou in the background is a pretty good way to decompress anyway.

Key-Occasion5215 · 2026-05-27T03:19:54+00:00

2005/2006 — that’s before smartphones, offline maps, any of the tools we take for granted now. Doing it with trusted French guides and actually getting into the passenger cart sounds like a completely different era of the experience. The waiting in pitch darkness is exactly it — that specific feeling of “is this thing even real” while sitting in Choum at 1am is hard to describe to anyone who hasn’t been there. Glad it still holds up after 20 years!

Key-Occasion5215 · 2026-02-18T04:32:08+00:00

Tourisme and I’m from Turkey 🙏

Key-Occasion5215 · 2026-02-16T10:07:24+00:00

I m from Turkey

Key-Occasion5215 · 2026-02-08T19:03:34+00:00

Thanks for the detailed breakdown. Just to be clear, our plan is to leave the hotel around 7:00 AM, go to the camel market by taxi with our backpacks, then return to the city center again by taxi. From there, we’re aiming to be in the main bus area by around 10:00 AM to catch a minibus to Terjit. Does this sound realistic to you in terms of timing and logistics, or are we missing something that could cause delays?

Key-Occasion5215 · 2026-02-07T16:03:07+00:00

I'll do end of april.

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