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Hi,

Is there anybody out there at nothern Mauretania, who can definietly state what is the status of the modern Sahara highway made by Egyptians, ie. the road between the Fort Guerguarat-Nouadhibou-Nouakchott? Is there any new border post between the countries? Would you please let me know the GPS coordinates!
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Hi Danek,

I used this route a couple of weeks ago. There are many sections of tarmac from Nouadhibou to Nouakchott, some of them are finished, others are still being worked on. Where the sections aren't finished, it's piste running alongside. There are also sections where nothing has been built yet, let alone tarmac'd. The local Police say it'll be finished in October but there's no way it'll be done until at least this time next year.

The borders are still the same. The route mentioned on the Sahara Overland site from the railway to Nouadhibou is incorrect. Instead of following the right-hand side of the tracks, cross them and take the main piste to Nouadhibou.

I drove from Nouadhibou to Nouakchott in 8 hours of constant driving with only a couple of sections of softish sand. But there are some bad corrugations as you near Nouakchott on this route.

If you want GPS coordinates of where the tarmac sections start and finish let me know, I'll email them to you.

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Hi Ben,

thank you for your detailed info. Would you please send me GPS coordinates to my e-mail: bobo49@wp.pl? Thanks in advance !

Danek
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hello gents,
would be very happy to have those coord's
as well!!
Riding solo from Lisbon to Dakar or,time permiting,to Bissau ,nxt January.

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Hello Ben,
it would be great if you could send me the coordinates as well (sigrun.bocksch@gmx.de)
Many thanks,
Magali

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Hallo Ben,
I am also planning a trip to Mauritania and Senegal late this year, it would be great if you could send me the coordinates as well (ezio.picco@aonmail.at)

Ciao from Austria !

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Hello!
We are also driving trough Sahara (Marokko, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Nigeria and cameroon) in a 4WD HiAce. Departure is set to december this year. We would very much like to have GPS koordinates to towns and places in these countries! Maybe we'll se some of you along the way!?
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Ok guys,

you should all have had your files by now - if not, get back to me.

Happy trips.

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Hallo Ben,
I am also planning a trip to Mauritania and Senegal soon this year, it would be great if you could send me the coordinates as well (tensar@passagen.se)

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Will do Jan, in the next day or so when I have access from home.

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"If you want GPS coordinates of where the tarmac sections start and finish let me know, I'll email them to you."

Any reason why you don't just post them all here?
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Yes, that would be useful!

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One reason is that there are quite a few of them, the second is that I also include a track file in xls or mapsource format to show the whole route from Nouadhibou to Nouakchott.

If anyone can tell me how to post a file then I will.

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Hi ya,

Email them to me - I'll whack them on a server and provide a url etc
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Will do Jan, in the next day or so when I have access from home.

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