Just back from a 3 week trip to the Gambia delivering Aid and Vehicles.
we crossed into Africa at Tangier Med, once on the ferry you take your passport and the Moroccan entry form to the passport office to get it stamped and get your CIN police number if you don't have one.

once into the port we were guided to the customs post and parked.....this is when the fun began.....! first you have to produce your carte Gris/V5 and fill out the TVIP form hand it to the customs, they then send you off to the police to get your CIN number verified. then it is back to customs and enjoy the fun of watching the overloaded Moroccan vans and cars being unloaded and searched.
we had an issue with the vehicles having red crosses on them and we were asked to remove them, in the end we agreed to cover them up with gaffer tape.

once were were clear of the customs we had to get fuel and have an exhaust sorted, once out of the port follow the road to the first roundabout turn right and follow the road into the town there is a fuel station about a Km in,
we then found a tame welder, turn right out of the fuel station and follow the road down the hill until you come to the bridge, cross the bridge and turn left and about 500m along there is a building at the end is a little lane and the welder/mechanic is down there

because of the timings we drove as far south as we could on the first day and camped in Kinatra at Camping la Chenaie,

day 2 involved a long hard slog south to Marrakesh. the Motorway south is very good although the bit around Rabat is busy, it is a toll road and fairly cheap, we stayed at camping le relais on the north side of the Marrakesh, clean, good food nice showers proper sit down loos!! (important if you have any ladies in the group!!)
we left le Relais and headed south towards Agadir again on the toll road, we then turned south towards Tiznet, we had intended to camp in the municipal camp ground at Tiznet but as we had made good time decided to push on for another 2 hours and find a site/wild camp as it happened we drove intoBouizakarne and followed signs for a small camp ground just off the main street (go to the roundabout turn left up the street and the camping is ahead of you just knock on the metal gates in the castle!

we left the next day heading for tan tan and ultimately camping Bedouin north of Laayoune ( t around the 30km marker there are three masts and the camp sign is about half a K after them on the left.)

the following 2 days involved driving south be prepared for regular police checks, have lots of Fiches and smile as you approach and DO stop at the first stop sign until you are beckoned on by the policeman.

fuel is available all the way to the border with Mauritania, best to fill up at the border as the next fuel is about 250 miles.

I allowed a full day to cross from western sahara (opens at 9am closes at 6pm) into Mauri and as it was we did it in half a day visas are currently available on the border and cost around 50 euros we had to buy insurance that cost 20 euros plus a 10 euro backshish to the customs. we drove as far south as we could towards Nouakchott and camped on the Total Garage forecourt, they do have a room that you can set up a tent in for slightly more secure sleeping not sure of the cost but they did provide a guard.

our next stop was auberge sahara in Nouakchott, this took us about half a day from the garage, we had a good meal showers (after 3 nights we were a tad wiffy!!) more sit down loos and a tour of the local market!

we left Nouakchott at sunrise and headed for the Senegal border. I decided we were going to cross at Barrage Diama as we passed through one of the check points on the main road one of the policemen made us speak to a "fixer" who met us on the Diama road to sell us insurance (read rip us off) and provide a guide (read rip us off) he threatened to make our life difficult so we had to comply crossing from Mauritaina was fairly painless apart from the payments to open the barriers and to park!!

Senagal was a different kettle of fish we were asked for 200 euros to "import" the vehicles we finally managed to negotiate 130 per vehicle but had 72 hours to be out of Senegal! the new Senegal visa is easy, it is stamped at the border and you are escorted to the airport to get the visa and the checks,

we then went to zebra-bar for a days relaxing,

after a day at Zebrabar we headed towards Dakar I made the mistake of going down the coast road and realized why we had gone the inland route the last time "corruption" lots of it police men and immigration!!
we took the first road inland and headed for the Gambian border, the last 40 km of road to the border was hell and finally broke the land-rover (chassis) we hit the border at 6pm and had to get the vehicle welded and found out the border is open until 8pm and the Gambian side is open till 9
we asked if we could camp behind the border post and left before it opened at 8am so were at the ferry at Farafenni before the crowds!!

we arrived in Banjul 15 days after leaving the UK and after dong 3500 miles!