Welcome to
Chiva In Transit.

A travel blog about places, cultures, and the feeling of belonging nowhere and everywhere at once. Part practical, part personal, written by a Mauritanian woman between the desert and the Alps. Are you the planner, the dreamer, or the wanderer? Whichever you are, there is a way to travel with me.

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Ponta da Piedade, the Algarve
What you'll find here

Three ways to travel with me.

Routes
The planner
Itineraries

Here you'll find real routes I have actually travelled, day by day, with my honest favourites and the stops I would tell you to skip. Everything you need to plan your own version, from someone who already made the mistakes.

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Stories
The dreamer
Stories

Here you'll find places told as stories: what they felt like, who I met, and the questions they left me with. Read them to dream before you go, or to travel somewhere again long after you are home.

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Essays on identity and belonging
The wanderer
In Transit

Here you'll find essays on living between worlds: a Mauritanian woman in Europe, sand and snow, belonging nowhere and everywhere. Less about where I went, more about what it does to you to keep leaving and arriving.

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"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting." Paulo Coelho · The Alchemist
Chiva
About Chiva

Hi, I'm Chiva.

Mauritanian by birth, Swiss by chance, forever in transit. Not fully here, not fully there, but enriched by both.

Here, you will find practical travel guides, personal stories, cultural reflections, and occasional essays about Mauritania, Switzerland, and the invisible forces that shape our lives.

Above all, I hope this space encourages curiosity. About places. About people. About the assumptions we inherit without questioning them.

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@chivaintransit