Travel advice northbound through Mauritania, is it safe?
Hi we need to get our landie back to the Uk, it's currently in The Gambia where we built a school.
We were planning on driving (quickly!) back along the Tarmac road through Senegal, Mauritania, Western Sahara, Morocco ..... but Mauritania is of obvious concern right now.
Foreign offices of UK USA ans OZ all advise against any inessential travel. especially the Western Sahara border.
French troops are today ousting the rebels in Mali and so they are fleeing into the surrounding desert.... Yikes!
The area is obviously not ideal to travel through , but we need to get the car back and shipping seems problematic. (Or can anybody help here?)
We are a youngish couple travelling alone and although sensible in our approach its conceivable we could leave the car in The Gambia and fly back if over landing is a bad idea. We drove down last year in convoy and so felt inherently safer.
Any advice is most welcome.
James and Amy
( Hi Chris Scott if you read this, we stalked you last year and you were kind enough to sign our book (the excellent overlanders guide) and reply to our emails)
James and Amy
The African School Run.org
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