Steve I endorse everything Craig says. You can actually get insurance at the Mauri/Maroc border post (Mauri side) and they will forward date it to when you plan to arrive in Senegal. Surprisingly it's not a rip off either.
Just don't do Rosso period. You will ('specially in your truck) be hasseled and hasseled and made to pay. Just don't do it. Somewhere I have the GPS point for the turn off to Diama and I'll post it when I can. Actually the Piste isn't in the National Park so the so-called tax is a scam (basic rule is that anything in Euros is a scam). The park starts just where you turn left off the piste just before the border. I reccommend you doing the last half of the piste early in the morning just when the birds start to congregate as the sight of all them forming into huge flocks is just fantastic.
When you get into Senegal and get pulled over (as you will be on the way in and out of St Louis) just don't pull your truck off the road and don't speak French either. The cops will soon get fed up if you've half of Africa behind hooting.
Q
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