We arrived in Nouakchott at lunch time on Monday and went straight to the Mali embassy to apply for our visas, which we got within a couple of hours, record time for Africa! Then we headed to camping Sahara on the edge of town. Only just in time as the Amsterdam - Dakar group turned up 5mins later, if not we´d have been camping outside for the night!! They are going to auction the cars off, just below Dakar and all of the money will go to various villages in Senegal. What a crazy bunch of people, they were telling us about all the mechanical problems they´ve been having. One of the cars split in two and is held together with steel girders and straps! A very nice women from the race kindly gave us her camping stove and regulator as ours broke 2 days ago. Luckily we have a little back up stove but cooking every meal on one burner is a mission. Thank you very much Karen, you have saved us from starvation!
It is a good place here with hot showers and free wifi, so we decided to stay on an extra day to catch up on a few things (mechanical stuff, laundry and of course the blog). Tomorrow we will be heading for Mali. Sorry there are no photos but the connection is bad. . . afterall we are in Africa!! We will try again tomorrow.
Llegamos mediodia a Nouakchott el capital, fuimos directamente a la embajada de Mali a por los visados. Los conseguimos en un par de horas, un record! Fuimos despues al camping Sahara, a los cinco minutos de montar acampada llegaron 50 coches Holandeses del rally Amsterdam- Dakar con unos trastos increible, uno de ellos partido por la mitad, aguantado por dos vigas de hierro y cinchas que pasón de gente. Karen uno de ellos nos regalo su hornilla y piña, el nuestro se rompio hace dos días y menos mal que yo habia hechado una pequeña de reserva cual compre en mi ultimo viaje en Marruecos en moto. Si no, hubieramos pasado hambre seguro, cocinar con una hornilla solo es un coñazo. Gracias Karen te debemos una!
Esta gente iban a subastar lo que queda de coches en Dakar y donor el dinero a los pueblos de Senegal
Este camping esta muy bien, nos hemos quedado un día mas a poner el coche a punto, lavar ropa y por supuesto poner el blog al día.La conexion esta un poco lenta esta noche, intentare subir algunos fotos antes de salir para Mali mañana.
Saludos a todo el mundo.
awesome,love the beer incident, can just imagine soph speeding to get to the border and u gettin pissed, lol, miss u so much babe, sounds like u are both havin a fab time ! xx tors.
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