This massive, historical monolith in Africa's Sahara Desert is a sight to behold. Learn how to reach it and what to expect at ...

In Mauritania, only one train to ride exists: It is nicknamed the Iron Train. It stops once for five minutes in Choum on its daily 437-mile journey from Zouerat in central Mauritania to Nouadhibou ...

Since 1963, Mauritania’s 2km-long Train du Desert ... They disembarked roughly 400km inland at Choum, where a dirt road leads to the market town of Atar and the medieval holy city of Chinguetti.

This isn't any old train. It's the longest in the world. I'm on Mauritania's northern frontier, in the town of Choum, whose only claim to fame is its railway station. It feels like a Western film ...

Hammond and May tasked with a drive from the desert town of Choum in Mauritania to the beaches of Dakar in Senegal, the finishing line for the famous Paris-Dakar rally. “There’s no such place ...