The solar eclipse on March 29, 2006 was a total eclipse of the Sun that was visible from a narrow corridor which traversed half the Earth. The path began at sunrise in Brazil and extended across the Atlantic to Africa, travelling across Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Libya, and a small corner of Egypt, from there across the Mediterranean Sea to Greece and Turkey, across the Black Sea via Georgia, Russia, and Kazakhstan to Western Mongolia. __
