Overland Trip Eventually Turning Into A Moroccon Holiday
February 11-19, 2018 After leaving Imlil our trip turned into a touristy holiday rather than overlanding, which is one of the reasons I decided to sum it up in a photo report rather than continue…
Moroccon Alps
February 10, 2018 Our guest house was on the top of the hill in Imlil, which meant we’d had to climb up a slippery, muddy, donkey poo-covered trail at 1am the previous night with our…
The Sahara Desert Used To Be An Ocean
February 9, 2018 After a bitterly cold night in our rooftop tent, where even our skiing clothes were insufficient, we said goodbye to Ahmed and Owen and set off westward. Evelin wasn’t feeling well, so…
The Great Sand Dunes Of Erg Chigaga And Getting Stuck On The Smallest One
February 8, 2018 After a great breakfast in the morning sun, we packed our rig for the Erg Chigaga tour. From Mhamid you can do a round trip returning to Mhamid, but since we were…
Driving East To Mhamid
February 7, 2018 One of the main reasons for the long drives we did during these few days is that we’d planned to see too many places in too short a time in Morocco. The…
Tafraoute – The Oil Change
February 6, 2018 Although I was complaining about the long drives in my previous post, I didn’t actually know what was coming in the week that followed. Before that though, we had a very relaxing…
Why Do We Have To Drive That Long All The Time?
February 6, 2018 Some of the days during the Rally were really long both in terms of distance as well as the number of hours we were driving. We expected to have a much easier…
Brushing Teeth With Salt Water – And The Camel Tagine
February 5, 2018 We figured one day off from driving was more than enough for us, so after another rooftop breakfast we were on our way. We remembered this part of Western Sahara with the road…
A Day Off
February 4, 2018 We woke up relaxed, as we didn’t have to wake up to an annoying alarm screaming from our phones for a change. The plan was to hang around Dakhla, really just relax…
Operation Desert Storm
February 3, 2018 The Sahara Desert at sunrise is truly spectacular. The colors you encounter and the shadows of the sand dunes make it look like a scene from a movie.We had an awesome drive……
Heading Back to Mauritania
February 2, 2018 We were quite glad to be driving with Mate and Aliz on our way to, and the next day through, Mauritania. Our goal for the day was Nouakchott, 350 miles and a…
Dakar and North Korea
February 1, 2018 You wouldn’t think Dakar has anything to do with North Korea. However, one of Dakar’s main attractions is a massive, hideous statue that’s supposed to be a symbol of the African Renaissance….
Why is it called The Gambia and not just Gambia?
January 31, 2018 As I looked into it, the only three countries in the world where the definite article, “the”, is officially obligatory are The Bahamas, The Gambia and The Netherlands.There are a number of…
A Porsche is Not an Easy Sale in The Gambia
January 30, 2018 Gyuri and Jim with the Discovery and Mate and Aliz with the Porsche both planned on selling their rigs when they finished the rally. Both had local used car salesmen approaching them,…
The Real Start of our Overlanding Trip in Africa
January 29th, 2018 Although we were quite sad that the rally had ended, it also meant that our real, independent overland trip started as well.As I mentioned earlier, the main reason for us signing up for…
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