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‘Travelling under the starry sky across the Sahara Desert is hard to forget.
‘The feeling of your life depending solely on the train as you are hundreds of kilometres away from the nearest village.
‘The silence of the desert when the train stops and the deafening rumble of it when it starts moving. Eating a hot meal cooked by the shepherds on the train. Seeing hundreds of sheep and goats atop the carriages loaded with iron ore.’
These are just some of the memorable moments Mykolas Juodele recalls of his experience freight-train hopping in the Sahara Desert on one of the most extreme railway journeys in the world.
Where? Mauritania, West Africa. Why? To document a journey of a lifetime.