The Mauritania Iron Ore Train ride is a 17-hour free train ride across a barren stretch of the Sahara and has become TikTok’s hottest travel experience. It’s a wild way to experience a whole other ...

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 on ...

More than a mile long and consisting of 200 freight cars, Mauritania’s Train du Desert is one of the longest and heaviest trains in the world. Completed in 1963, the train operates daily between ...

Most of us have experienced a peaceful train ride — watching green fields blur past, feeling the breeze through the window, maybe sipping hot chai at a sleepy station. But far from this calm, there’s ...

16:30, Tue, Aug 13, 2024 Updated: 19:48, Tue, Aug 20, 2024 A colossal cargo train in northwest Africa is one of the heaviest in the world and is so long you can barely make out the wagons at the back ...