Scenes of the Diawling National Park - Mauritania - November 2005 - Page (2)

Grassy marshland containing many of the species of wading bird, hawk, heron and gull in West Africa

The 'strange cloud formation' we had seen earlier from a distance .....

..... turned out to be a fiercely burning fire amongst the dry undergrowth

Grass and bushes that grow in salt marshes .. stretching many kilometres into the distance