Hi all,

To Kar El
>do you have up to date info about the prices for insurance (and possible passport stamping)for a 4WD in Morocco, Mauritania
My European insurance company covers Morocco and Tunisia, so I don't have info for Morocco. For Mauritania, I've paid in Nouadhibou about 22 Euros for 8 days, and in Rosso about 16 Euros for 6 days. The car was a Nissan Patrol with 9 places.

>any nice pistes in Senegal you know of?
The only real piste I've done (besides the ones inside Niokolo-Badiar National Park) connects Tambacounda with Matam. It has roughly 200kms, and cuts through the Ferlo Animal Reserve. Very scenic, the people in the villages were the most friendly I've ever encounter. It was a truly wonderful experience. I don't have the GPS waypoints, but with the IGN map and asking around in the villages you'll manage to do it in a long day, or in two relaxed days. Only an advice - in July / August the wet season will be peaking. I reckon the piste will be full of mud. With a 2 day mild rain this January it was already getting too soft, so expect additional difficulties in July.

>are you the guy behind "no way José"??
Hope not !!

To JPC
>Is it possible on you way back to buy a visa at the border or do you need a multiple entry visa.
I got my visa at the Mauritanean consulate in Lisbon, before the trip. It cost 30 Euros, valid for 1 month with unlimited entries. So I didn't had visa problems during the trip.

>have you got some useful waypoints of your route of natural park reserve in Sénégal?
Sorry, but no. The natural areas I visited didn't presented much difficulties. The Saloum Delta Natural Park you'll visit by boat (pirogue); in the Niokolo-Badiar NP you can buy the park guidebook, with a detailed map (besides it has so much vegetation that you can't leave the piste to wonder off); and in the Ferlo Reserve (see above) the IGN map and asking for directions in he villages is quite enough.

Good luck,
José

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