adrar des ifoghas
 

does anybody know if it's dangerous the area north of gao, to kidal and the adrar des ifoghas, in mali?
i've to cross the border to algeria, coming from gao and headed to tam in the next two months and i heard more than rumors about robberies and so on. i know that is an unsafe and uncontrolled area, but i want to have some news about it.
thank you very much in advance

The word on the streets, sorry piste, is that it's very dangerous. Nowadays hardly anyone (tourists) travels that area so it's difficult to tell whether things have changed or not.

If you do get more helpful advice than this from, and decide to go, PLEASE write it up here! I think nearly everyone is interested in that area (and route)!

Sam.

Met a French LR guy on Route A5 last week who came up Gao - Bordj Moktar - Tam solo with no probs - which surprised me too, but there you go. Maybe its all quiet again.

CS

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