Hello everyone.
I don't think I will make it to Taghazout for mid November. I'm taking the ferry to Morocco tomorrow, but my heart is set on seeing Chefchouen so I'm going to go there first. Then I need to go to Rabat and sort out my Mauritanian visa. If anyone else finds that they have to meet up later then I'd still be up for it. Hope all your journeys go well if not.

Liam.

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Hi guys,

We're in Rabat at the moment and going to pick up visas tomorrow. We should make Taghazout midweek next week, all things going to plan...

Cheers,
Spook

Hi Guys,

I'm in the middle of the other group (just left Senegal I believe), and your group. Currently in Laayoune in northern Western Sahara. I'll be hanging around in Senegal for a while so might catch some of you there.

Does anybody know of a place to get a front tyre in Senegal/The Gambia?

Thanks,

Jonathan

There are a lot of travellers on the way

Therefore you will meet some others for shure...

travel safe and enjoy your trip!

Surfy

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I'll hold tight in Taghazout and see you guys next week at camp garnaro jaybee:

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Hi Jonathan
Is it the same one i met in Maroc a couple of weeks back , blue and white KTM690 ? i was on the Black Tenere with Mark Orange KTM690

If so have a good one mate and only wish i was there



Phil

Hi guys .


My personal situation is different as it had originally planned , I'm in Madrid with my bike and equipment, waiting for a new document, which must have been invented for my visa RD.Congo . severe bureaucracy will not undermine my high motivation for this trip, only delay it about 4 or 5 days , I will keep patience , just wait for this visa.
When I get my visa in about 7 hours I can get Tanger from Madrid.
Then I need a morning in Rabat for Mauritanian visa ( provided it is not Friday, Muslim prayer day closed all embassies )
From Rabat it take 6 or 7 hours to reach Agadir ( there is a good motorway to Agadir).
If any of you are down this route , let me know and we can go down together to reach Garnaro camp (if still there )
When I'm on the road, will be moving my position in case anyone wants to join me on the way down to the south coast.

I hope to get Agadir in a week in the worst

Garnaro camp has beautiful views over the Atlantic Ocean , looks great ! Enjoy it !

All the best

Esteban

Me(Tony) and Spooka(Luke) and Intergalactic Walrus(Ben) have teamed up and are now near Marrakesh. We will be at camp Garnaro somewhere mid next week, so I think this leaves time for Liam to catch up too. We will be traveling slow though, cruising around 80 km/h (Enfield and my VW van)
Hope to see you guys there!

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Hey doods - been without swell for a few days now and I'm getting antsy, so heading off tomorrow morning aiming for Tan Tan, and then Dakhla. You guys are sure to catch me up soon. Post an update here next week and I'll find you down the road!

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Hi guys,

We're heading to either Taghazout or Agadir today. Is anyone in the neighbourhood?

Spook

Slightly 'off topic' for this thread but if you guys using GPS with Mapsource would save your tracks T4a would welcome them. That is how T4a produce their wonderful maps etc - they are based on real input from folks who have travelled the roads and tracks.
Contact me if you need more information.

Margaret

That is really offropic here. I`m shure i`m not the only one who is thinking about if it is ok to pay 90 bucks for T4A - but to provide the recorded tracks for free. Why not sharing them to OSM (openstreetmaps), where the user works together for free?

I understand that T4A never got this quality of maps without going a commercial way... But.. Now there are Wiki based projects who are free.

Want to say, i`m willing to pay 90 bucks for T4A - but i`m not willing to record and share tracks for T4A for free.

Some years ago there was no alternative to T4A.. But today, with OSM, GoogleMaps, Google Offline Satellite view... Till now OSM honestly dont have this coverage specially in east africa... But any day the coverage is growing.

For shure - this discussion don`t fits here.

Surfy

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I just compleated this trip a couple of months ago
my recomendations are

1. have the 2 mitchalin maps, north and central...gps are good in citys, but out in the bush the maps are better...and dont break ( buying a gps in accra was 3 times the cost of europe and not as good quality, and real real hard to find, only in Accra will you find a garmin in west africa)

2. get a carnet, it will work out cheaper and a lot easyer, we meet guys in west africa who has spent the same money already on bourderpasses than we did on getting a carnet, and carnets refund some of the money on return to the RAC

3. watch out for that fat f##king cop in senegal after st loiue, he likes to screw everyone...i watched him fine taxi drivers about having tintid glass...one tip...if he finds something real ( ed no seat belt on) he will make you a offer...he says....pay now or i start to write and it will get worse....belive me it gets worse....i wish i payed, i heard of a westerner recently who spent 5 days in jail there for nothing.( if you can find a diffrent road,,,maybe along the coast...maybe...just dont get lost)

4. Angola is the hardest visa to get....and its only valid for 2 months ( accra)
Nigeria, can sometimes be had at Bennin, Accra was not being helpfull, and DRC in togo......these are the hard visa

5.Dress nice when going to the Rep Congo visa...or they dont let you in

6. joke ...it always helps with the cops.....if they ask for money in english tell them....my girlfreind.....SHE CHOP MY MONEY...they will understand

7. Dont take to much stuff....most you will never use,90 percent of your cloaths will stay in your bag and just get rotten, elecronic stuff WILL break, im a netbook and gps down, and half my freind had there cameras killed

8. Most important, do your research, find out were to get the visas....if you dont...then you will not make it very far....we met plenty of people who were just going with the flow....and flow they did, back to europe

recently there was a guy who did madrid to cape in 2 months...but he had visas already...it sounds a rush, but everyone likes diffrent type of travel...and no need to worry about visas

Good luck

Thanks for all of this info Gazza, very helpful tips for those of us now on the way down. Just yesterday a guy here in Dakhla told me about the cop sitting just near St. Louie.

I'm planted in Dakhla waiting for a swell due in this weekend...there is an ok campsite here for 35 dirham and rooms are only 40-50 dirham. No wifi and have to pay for hot showers tho.

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Hi
i may be thinking of the wrong town...but isent it Dakhla were there is the free camping ( with all the white campersvans) at the wind surfing beach...not the nicest place but ok and free....but its a fer drive to the town...and you have to go past the checkpoint back and fourth

yes the cop...everyone kn ows him ...and he knows it.
it something like halfway from st louie to dakar, it the begining of a small town...dont know the name....maybe arseholeville.
i hate paying.....in the end i was in the main police station, with the police cheif..he did not realy want to be dealing with small stuff like me.....but the arsehole cop wanted to get me ****ed ( because i refused to pay and also the arsehole cop fell of his bike when he was excorting us to the station)

one tip.....if you have a fake licence ( handy to have...next time im going to print a few and laminate them) give it to him and then he will tell you to go to the police station alone and pick up the licence from him latter...instead just dive on to dakar