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Old 26 Oct 2022
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the adventure with the visa
Hello Diamond

one of my travel buddies always flies to Brussels and gets the visa in one day.

A belgian friend has to go twice to Brussels to get the visa, which takes 3 days.

I can do the whole thing in Geneva by registered mail, it takes about a week.

Are there also visa services in Great Britain? maybe they are cheaper than flying there?

good luck - Ursula

( example https://www.visahq.co.uk/chad/Chad-T...pplication.pdf )
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it was really possible to visit Tibesti again!

Route: N'Djamena - Faya - Gouro - Ouri and back with a local travel agency

some pictures on
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we passed old mine accidents



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Dear Ursula,
There were any Toubou barriers where you had to pay?
Best Regards
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Exclamation Tibesti Chad - Security
Dear Artur
Do you mean roadblocks where a « tax » was « required » ?
I didn't notice any of that.
But a few years ago, during a passport control in Ounianga, we were "persuaded" to "donate" a larger sum to the local health station.

We traveled with local guides who were from or lived in the area.

However, there was a lot of traffic in the direction to/from the Libyan border, especially at night we heard the convoys driving through.
Even during the day, pick-ups suddenly appeared out of clouds of dust, chatted briefly and then disappeared again just as quickly as they had appeared.

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Hi,
Yes, I thought about roadblocks.
We would like to travel to Ouri next season or on 2025, and I check carefully the conditions there, because we were in central Tibesti two month ago and we paid a lot on roadblocks (one of them was dangerous).
The trip was:
Route: Ndjamena-Faya-Zouarke-Trou au Natron-Bardai-Azouni-Zoumri-Yebbi Souma-Yebbi Bou-Tarso Kozen-Bini Erda-Gouro-Faya-Ounianga Kebir-Wadi Doum-Bir Kora-Bichigarra-Ndjamena.The trip was absolutely splendid, except four Toubou barriers where we had to pay:
1. before Yebbi Souma - arranged by local community
2. after Yebbi Souma - aranged by local community
3. ca 30km after Yebbi Bou on the way to Tarso Kozen and Gouro - Miski bandits
4. ca 50km after Yebbi Bou - arranged by local community.
There is no way to bypass these barriers on this route. Local communities barrier are permanent.
Total we pay ca no less 500 euro per person (only in CFA), but you can expect to pay much more - it depends on the current decision of the boss of the barrier. It's a goldfield and they don't know what low rates are.
Local community barriers (expensive) - we knows about them before and we were ready to pay, so quite no problem.
But the Miski bandits barrier (very expensive) was really dangerous.
I know there were 2 other groups the same route last season - they paid too.
In the begining of April appeared a group of rebels in Zouarke area (information - porte parole Tchadian army command).
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This is a dangerous development.
Zouarke - Miski - Yebbi Bou is a no-go area for me since the fights for the gold deposits started
Already years ago we made always very unpleasant experiences in Yebbi Bou and Miski
but as far as I know we did not have to pay to pass
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This from 2019
https://www.crisisgroup.org/africa/c...ontation-miski
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Recent travels in Chad
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Ha! I know this car. I have been driving it in April 2023 Ennedi-Ounianga-Faya route. The 3rd gear did not work after I reached Ennedi, otherwise fine. Here is more recent picture, from around Mourdi Depression:
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Looks the perfect adventure...

With 4wd you can remove the cardan and keep going on front wheel drive if the rear is shot.
If the bearing is shot, you were ill prepared. Always carry spares.
I learn that the hard way

In this case the whole rear axle needed replacement. Poorly serviced then.
No tools, no knowledge, lack of water = low survivability.
To boot, he had a plane to catch...
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Maybe they strayed a little too close to Ouadi Doum ;-)
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It was pretty much a perfect adventure despite the fact that the rear axle had to be replaced in the middle of nowhere and that the car broke down again between Bitkine and Bokoro (different reason that time) and I had to take a bush taxi to N'Djamena. Luckily I had left a full 4 buffer days before flying out of Chad. July is the best time to travel to the Chadian Sahara!
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