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Mauritania shopping constitutes various types of goods ranging from decorative items to necessary articles. Travelers looking from souvenirs can make a choice of the interesting items that are offered for sale in the shops.
Mauritania shopping usually includes handicrafts that can be purchased from the open market and the good include rugs, dried leather cushions, woodcarvings and engraved silver articles.
Nouakchott crafts center also puts for sale fine items like carpets, daggers, silver jewelry, silver and wooden chests and also decorated tents of the nomads.
While shopping in Mauritania a visit to the Tagant region selling pottery, arrowheads and awls and to Boutilimit with its splendid carpets made of camel and goat hair is a must. Shopping at Mauritania has to be done between 8a.m to 12 noon and 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. from Saturdays to Thursdays.
Shopping Mauritania must be done with the state currency. Travelers can exchange currencies at the main banks of Nouakchott or even at the airport. Mauritania Shopping is considerably expensive as the Mauritanian products are very pricey. A unique way of purchasing local goods at reasonable price is by bringing along typical Western goods for trade. This enables both satisfactions of both the parties.
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