That's not a bad route down if your starting from Tantan. How was the dry lake?

Great cover photo!

Where is that?

EDIT: Gara Medoura!!

It's where part of the James Bond film Spectre was filmed. Apparently the world's biggest special effects explosion. It's a few km west of Rissani. The Meteorite Crater that Wasn’t: Reflections on SPECTRE | True Anomalies

Happy trails,

True to it's name ;-)

Hoping to look at this Saturday providing I can get my brakes fixed. Driving Jebel Sahro with no brakes was. ..........interesting

Never seen so many kids sweeping the piste of stones before though

Done and we needed a lot of beer to recover.

Great, thanks. Just spent a few days plotting every track on My Maps for the map designer - MS77 is the missing link.
I take it it's not too chilly down there right now?

Low thirties daytime in Zagora Foum Zguid. Almost perfect.

I'll get the details over to you this week


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We're in Merzouga at the moment, heading across that way on Monday, we are hoping to give the Southern route a go travelling from Zagora to Tata....... Any pointers or tips?

Hi Simon, if you're up for it and assuming your planned route is as the yellow arrows, I propose:

• Picking up MS8 as low as possible. Unless you see better, that looks like
'Join MS8' which is: N29° 45.17' W06° 35.53' (or perhaps MS8-KM180, a bit more north). It does not look like there are tracks coming east directly from below the erg where you will be - terrain too rough perhaps.

• Consider carrying on along the pistes all the way to Tata from around MS8-KM109. This is 'MS88' (blue-green arrow) on the image. Looked into this before and various tracks are certainly there. I think the only problem here can be border patrols turning you back on occasions.
This westward extension will make MS8 into a proper long piste, like the ever popular MS6.

• Should you have enough by MS8-K148, logging 'MS777' (red) going north towards FZ at that point would be useful.
All tracked and close/parallel to what Peter suggested.
Hand drawn Ms777.kml attached.

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Have a nice drive ;-)

https://saharaoverland.files.wordpre...17/04/msms.jpg

Thanks for the info Chris, IF all goes to plan we will try the yellow and link to MS8 as far as we can get. Going to take 3 days over it to give ourselves plenty of time. Will let you know how we get on and send through any notes and data.


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MS77: FZ–Tagounite. Any volunteers?
 

In Tata now, we managed the Southern route round Chegagga in appalling weather, bad sand storm and quite an adventure. The military were also being very kind so we were able to do the western extension to MS8 linking the Dakar Piste all the way to Tata.

I'll send the data over in the next few days Chris when I have had time to sort.

Well done Simon.

thanks

Hi Chris - looking forward to the new edition!

I just spotted this thread - we did the southern route this time last year (78 Series Camper) - tracklog of the way we picked through and round is on https://share.delorme.com/VeganWithoutFrontiers - if there's any bits you'd still like details for I can reconstruct from the track/photos/video?

Its covered (vaguely descriptively) in the blog section here, https://www.veganwithoutfrontiers.co...ay-to-the-sea/

Jon

(Oh, and for entertainment and landscapes here's Casablanca to Dakhla in 10 minutes: https://vimeo.com/164884637 )

Hi Jon, good going - you managed Mhamid to Tata in a day so can't be that hard.

Will se what Simon sends in as he went all the way on piste.

Interesting to hear they're still hustling at Melilla, as I suspected.
I was tempted to go that way as half the price of Nador.
Do you know the days on the Nador Axa by the border: Mon-Fri or Sat?