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Day 18: To Dakar
Dakar is probably most famous for the Paris Dakar rally but, now I am past that area, I can let my family known that the rally is now held in South America. The area I have just travelled through is regarded as too dangerous. So far Senegal has…
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Day 17: A Dodgy Day
This will be a long post but bear with me, it involves a scam, an arrest and me being separated from my passport and bike by the Senegal river. I left Steve early yesterday morning (thanks again for your hospitality) for the Senegal border and Rosso. Described by…
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Day 16: Not as Planned – So much better
Distance: 230km To get a Senegal visa the procedure is to pay online and then take a confirmation email to the border and deal with everything else there. Despite several unsuccessful attempts to do the online bit overnight I decided to go to the Senegal embassy in Nouakchott…
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Day15 : What did you do today?
Distance 560km, Western Sahara to Mauritania Well I did these things: 1. Woke up in a tent on a warm sandy beach. 2. Rode my motorbike through the Sahara desert 3. Crossed the tropic of cancer 4. Exited Morocco and braved their customs 5. Crossed no mans land,…
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Day 14: Western Sahara and Two Oasis
( What is the plural of Oasis? ) I woke just before the dawn this morning to see a beautiful sunrise. After getting packed I was on the move by 7.30. The road was a long straight one with the occasional potholes but unchanging. I had the desert…
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Day 13: Into the Sahara Desert
Distance: 590km Just a quick update today as I have been on the road for 9.5 hours with only a 45 minute break for dinner. This bit was always on my list of NOT spots and apart from a few bright spots it has lived up to expectations…