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A service station where travelers can find everything they need. Besides fuel, diesel, and gasoline, there is a café where you can have breakfast, for example. Next to the café there is a small supermarket where you can restock your supplies. The staff there are very friendly.

Auberge Triskell in Nouakchott offers family rooms with private bathrooms, air-conditioning, and garden or city views. Each room includes free WiFi, a private terrace, and modern amenities. 

Zebrabar is a popular, eco-friendly riverside camp near Saint-Louis, Senegal, located within the Langue de Barbarie National Park, famous for birdwatching (pelicans, flamingos) and as a hub for overlanders with its restaurant, bungalows, solar power, and helpful Swiss owners. It offers rustic yet comfortable stays, communal dining, vehicle repairs, and boat trips into the park.

One of the few campsite in the area, perfect location just in front of the sea, the place is clean and reasonably well maintained. There are 60 pitches where you can pitch your tent, and stand your caravan or campsite car.  

Cool place (hotel & restaurant), next to a gas station and a bank, about 80km north of border to Mauritania.Popular overlander stop, good place to meet other travelers.

The Tropic of Cancer is an imaginary line of latitude at approximately 23.4° North of the Equator, marking the northernmost point where the sun is directly overhead at noon during the June solstice, defining the edge of Earth's tropical zone, and passing through parts of North America, Africa, and Asia.