Sounds great! Do you know if its possible both ways? Comming from West Sahara and the other way from Diama or Rosso.

I don't want rely on gifts to much because I'm organizing a tour from Sweden to Ghana.

Last year they refused us entry at Nioro but let us in at Kayes - Kiffa.

I called the Mauretanian embassy in Berlin just to make sure it was possible to enter from Senegal too and shouldn't be a problem. Hope I can rely on that.

But I must say that I trust other travelers like you guys much more than the embassy staff.

So, officially, is it only the 3-day transit that's sold at the border or are longer permits available as well?

sorry, no more visa at the border (with Morroco) since 5-nov-2009
see other thread for updates

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bart & sophie

Spoked to the Mauretania embassy in Paris today and they told me the same bad news... No visa at the border.

I forgot to ask if it's the same rules coming from the south, but I guess it is...

Do anybody know if they can issue visa the same day if I show up at the embassy in Paris on my way down?

Hey all,

Live from Dakhla, the 2cv heading for Mauritania and stuck in Dakhla.

The visa at the border is no more. We spoke to several people in Dakhla (mostly concentrated at camping, 6km's before Dakhla, just after last checkpoint on your left). They went to the border of Mauritania and since last Thursday the 6th a new law was enforced that no more (transit)visa's are issued at the border. You need to go to Rabat for the visa (which will take 2 days of processing).

Although some of them played all the tricks possible to get accross the border, none of the attempts were succesfull (for perspective, around 35 overlanders with same border-xperience). It has nothing to do with elections or temporary closure, it is because the government want to have control over who is entering. At least, that was -in our opinion- the most credible version and most heard of.
Moroccon police even called the border and came with the same explanation.

In Dakhla right now, groups are being formed (check the camping on ur left entering Dakhla after last checkpoint) or at Hotel Sahara (NOT REGENCY SAHARA!) in order to let 2 or 3 people travelling to Rabat, by bus, plane and car with a dozen of passports, while the rest of "little Europe" waits at the lovely beaches of Dakhla.

Get your visa in Rabat! If you haven't got a visa, please meet eachother at the camping. The manager will help you to get in a group and has even the papers to fill in for the Mauri embassy. Then some of them have to make the trip to Rabat.

Hope this information from Dakhla will help some of you!
Ciao

Ruud
Welkom bij Saharaeend

Just registered tonight on the site.... reason was I am planning my first big trip in January. Ireland to Gambia....via Mauritania..

Decided to NOT go to Rabat, as I was due to arrive there Thursday or Friday, when the embassy was closed.... so plan was to get border visa.

Boy, am I glad I looked in here.... Thanks for the heads up