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The recent crossings (I summarised above) are fully documented on the Overlanding West Africa and Morocco Facebook group. Not everyone who tried crossing succeeded.

Hopefully I posted the relevant info above
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Thanks Warden. Hopefully, the overlanding community will still forward such info, to make it into openly available forums with less interest in shamelessly monetizing my desires. Although I sometimes feel missing out on crucial real life info like this one, I´m still happy to have switched off my FB account a few years ago. Do you have a link to some blog or website of these pioneers (achievers and misses alike)?

As Dave the hat recently reported a drone strike in the Western Sahara , this region actually seems to be too hot for my taste, only to avoid heating up my flat this german winter.
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I agree it's a shame one has to sign up to FB (or even ask to join a group) to get info which is useful to all.
That is why we like the HUBB ;-)
So keep us updated, Mark, svp.

Fyi I just responded to that drone strike post.
For travellers I dont think it is much to worry about.
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Recent quote for Tindouf route from an Algerian agency:
1000 euro pp for three day escort Alger-Tindouf and visa-invitation!

But on top of that expect visa issue delays, depending on where you apply.
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Recent quote for Tindouf route from an Algerian agency:
1000 euro pp for three day escort Alger-Tindouf and visa-invitation!

But on top of that expect visa issue delays, depending on where you apply.
I already have a algeria visa issued in my passport, will this be good enough to enter algeria? My plan is to come by RoRo from Spain to Oran...

Sorry maybe this is the wrong thread to ask?
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In my experience, once you have the visa you are good to go.
But when I arrived at Med ports I had an agency guide there to smooth things over.
If you don't have/need that, don't say you are going far south.
Last I heard you even need an escort to visit Ghardaia, 400km south of Algiers.
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I'm new to overlanding and have long been interested in doing a Morocco to Tunisia (or vice versa) overland trip. I don't drive and it seems that crossing borders is always much more complicated when you have your own vehicle (permisions, fuel, etc). Has anyone thought about crossing the Algeria-Mauritania border by hitchhiking? Taking a taxi to the border, walking across, and taking another taxi on the other side (perhaps pre-arranged)? Would that be too risky due to safety concerns?
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I don't think you'll find a taxi on an 800-km piste; more likely an informal arrangement with a trucker. That's bound to be an adventure but how will you even get past checkpoints to Tindouf zone, or even an Algerian visa? It's not a regular border just a hut in the middle of nowhere with a long stretch of No Man's land (afaik). I am not sure this border gets more than a few vehicles a week.
This route is not like Libya-Niger (below) or Chad gros porteur Mercs, and even in the good days few tourists tried that. More for nothing-to-lose migrant workers.
As said earlier, might be easier from the south up.

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Did anybody manage to cross the border at Tindouf recently? Algeria16 agency - used by the Romanians and the Spanish/American couple mentioned in earlier posts - did not manage to get us (two Dutch travellers) visa. What about others?
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Did anybody manage to cross the border at Tindouf recently? Algeria16 agency - used by the Romanians and the Spanish/American couple mentioned in earlier posts - did not manage to get us (two Dutch travellers) visa. What about others?
For me it was quite easy to get a visa on my own. Just don't mention that you are going by bike.
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For me it was quite easy to get a visa on my own. Just don't mention that you are going by bike.
Only visa is not enough. Nowadays special permission from the Algerian ministry of Foreign Affairs seems needed for crossing at Tindouf
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Talk of another Algerian truck or three got droned by Morocco in the northern PFZ, just before Ait Ben Tili.
(A reminder not to take the short-cut via PFZ).

https://twitter.com/TheAlgiersPost/s...38809581178880
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Did the UN investigations of the last alleged drone attack ever get published?

Also, report from 'Ludwig" on the Buschtaxi forum last week that the border is closed heading from Alg - Mauri
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I heard it's not closed, just out of fuel - or maybe that was someone else.
Someone else is heading that way in a few days.
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Post here last Wednesday and Thursday https://www.wuestenschiff.de/phpbb/m...224785a61ff432

Ludwig does mention meeting some italians in Hassi Kheibi who had travelled from Fderik and got an Alg escort towards Bechar. This would be the first mention I've seen of anyone crossing from Mauritania on the route
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