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Well done Simon.
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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: )
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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?
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Yeah...was on a bit of a mission to get my 'guests' to Dakhla for a flight home or would have liked to spend some more time down there on the pistes - next time!
Looking at the Delorme map now, they've added Open Streetmap to it - there's a track marked aligning to the Southern route round the Erg a bit North of our track (diverging at the point we came across an encampment of French 4x4s). Also, Open Streetmap has the Algerian border in the right place, which the Delorme map has further North. Next time I'll cross-check with the Navmii app which got me through to Cool Camp in Mali
Crossed lots of tracks heading WSW on the dry lake, which would have been heading down to MS8 - I was just aiming at your waypoint for the checkpoint at the start of the horrible stony track NW on MS77.
To be honest, no idea about the Axa at the border - my mistake was letting slip I had no insurance when talking to a French overlander (who had cover for Morocco on his usual insurance) within earshot of a 'helper' and after that I was just prey - but everything looked pretty much shuttered up when we got out (which was a Saturday morning). If you find out, I'd be interested as its a nice route in - be nice to have insurance next time!
Cheers,
Jon
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I think even Google shows the N10 cutting a corner of Alg. Few maps agree, but on the ground the frontier is clear: men in jeeps with binoculars.
Never used or actually seen it, but I think Tim mentioned once there is an Axa right on the Melillia frontier - ( map).
It may be this place, but the map shows a Tangier suburb (other maps show the middle of the sea). 10 route du port sounds right, but it's not the street name in Beni Ensar on Google.
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