Western Sahara, Western Sahara Travel Blogs

On our second day in marrakesh we sampled ...
Dec 31, 2002 (2 photos)

... felt much better the next day so we headed south to a town called Laayoune. We have now left Morocco and are in Western Sahara which is still disputed territory and so there is a heavy military presence with UN peacekeeping forces. All this means for us ...

Western Sahara
Nov 28, 2008 (29 photos)

Western Shara is pretty desolate.  Not much going on here, so we travel during the day and make our bush camp around sundown.

Boujdour
Jan 20, 2008 (6 photos)

500 km de désert, c'est long et de peu d'intéret. Mais nous avons cherché les meilleurs coins et vous les proposons en photo. Ce soir nuit dans un Camping 4*, coté Bungalow de luxe (lits, eau y compris chaude, cuisine, salon télé) Beucoup mieux qu'hier soir à ...

Dakhla (ex Villa Cisneros)
Jan 21, 2008 (4 photos)

Route longue et fastidieuse de Boujdour à Daklha. Rien pour s'arréter, seulement pour besoins naturels. Mais nous vous avons trouvé quelques pécheurs. Arrivée à Daklha vers 15:00 et constat après le plein que nous avons consommé 16 l/100 contre 9 hier. Fuite de ...

Western Sahara's Story
Apr 2, 2009 (9 photos)

Western Sahara Much of the journey through Western Sahara involved long driving days, in which the scenery changed from rocky semi-arid desert, to sand dunes to sandy flat plains. Many of the bush camps were hampered by strong sandy winds, and camel was ...

Surgery in the back of the Truck
Apr 3, 2009 (4 photos)

... common to see camels wandering by the side of the road and large moving sand dunes. We camped several nights in Western Sahara, including a night near a large set of sand dunes several kilometers inland from the coast, another camp full of scorpions and ...

Laayoune
Jan 20, 2008 (3 photos)

Plein de gas-oil fait au prix de 4.11 dirhams (soit 0.37€) le litre. Big Toy est gavé, mais nous n'aurons pas la place pour en ramener en France

Le sud Marocain
Oct 20, 2008 (9 photos)

C est vraiment un trou paumé mais c est une ville strategique pour le maroc. D ou une presence militaire tres importante. Vu le nombre de militaire j ai fait tres peu de photo. Meme si je garderai le souvenir de mon passage de la frontiere Maroc Mauritanie

Dakhla, Western Sahara
Nov 19, 2005 (15 photos)

... in Laayoune. On the petrol front though things are really looking up, the cost has almost halved since crossing the old Morocco/Western Sahara border. A geed thing as the Western Sahara is as long as the journey from the South of England to the highlands ...

la route du sud...
Oct 13, 2007 (19 photos)

Salute!! Me voici en route pour la Mauritanie après 3 jours dans Essaouira la superbe (ma ville préféré du Maroc!) en compagnie de mes 2 croates. Je m'étalerais plus la prochaine fois, je vous fais simplement partager de jolies photos. Allez les bleus!!! ...

Warren is Stalked by a Berber Man in the Souk
Oct 12, 2007 (4 photos)

... and were camped on a bluff overlooking the sea on a somewhat damp misty night perhaps halfway between Laayoune and Dakhla in Western Sahara.  After dinner we built a campfire which perhaps six or seven of us sat around talking politics.   The ...

Going further south
Sep 15, 2008

Map update in progress, a full entry soon. Stay Tuned!

Crossing the Sahara, Morocco, Oct 13 - 14, 2007
Oct 14, 2007 (15 photos)

... of turkey affairs that were so common with our group) in a gas station's parking lot near the military checkpoint into Western Sahara territory.  There were only a few settlements south of that line, the largest being Laayoune, the territory's capital ...

Bye bye Western Sahara
Sep 20, 2008

Map update in progress, a full entry soon. Stay Tuned!

Through the gates of Western Sahara
Sep 12, 2008

Map update in progress, a full entry soon. Stay Tuned!

The land of Sand and Sea
Nov 15, 2002

We leave Morocco after losing tyres and a series of beautiful stops and head into disputed teritory. All I can really say that there is a lot of sand, but its oddly beautiful and relaxing in a mysterious kind of way. There is no particular road, so pick ...

Dates With Two Swedes...Watching the Sunrise
Mar 2, 2007

... myself.   22 hours, 104 police Checkpoints from Agidir, I arrive in Dakhla, a quaint town in the country of Western Sahara.  I planned to stay there for one night and continue on to Nouahibou in Mauritania, but the ride was so exhausting ...

maroc, ouest sahara : layoune, boujdour, dakhla
Jan 3, 2004 (6 photos)

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Land Mines
Dec 1, 2003

Land Mines in the frontier of Western Sahara with Mauritania. In the night is very exciting driving for the zone.

laayoune
Nov 9, 2007

laayoune

Im 23 Jahre alten Land Rover durch West Sahara
Oct 27, 1997

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Laayoune
Nov 30, 2003

Enter in the Western Sahara

Dakhla
Nov 30, 2003

Day of rest

Laayoune
Jul 5, 2009

... lot of investment from the Moroccan government who resettled hundreds of Moroccans here in the 70s to try and tighten their grip on Western Sahara.  It now appears as wealthy and modern as any other Moroccan city, but is effectively an island is the ...

endroit inexistant
Apr 24, 2006 (5 photos)

Une nuit dans un no man's land. J'ai dormi dans un endroit qui n'existe pas. C'est fou. En plein désert, aucune lumière. C'est le moment ou j'ai vu le plus d'étoile de ma vie. Jusqu'à l'horizon. À couper le souffle. Je vais m'en souvenir pour toujours. Il y en ...

entrée dans la culture
Apr 19, 2006 (4 photos)

ville un peu desertiqe malgrés que l'océan soit a deux pas. Des voiture de l'ONU se promènenet un peu partout, le quartier général est pas loin. LA viille est toute neuve et semble un peu artificielle. Il n'en est rien, un chauffeur de taxi nous invite a ...

Dernière ville
Apr 22, 2006 (2 photos)

Ca y est on est arrové à la dernière ville avant la frontière de la Mauritanie. Il faut savoir qu'il reste encore beaucoup de kilomètres avant d'y arriver et rendue la, enocre plus anavant la prochaine ville. De la, il n'y a plus d'autobus. Pour traverser la ...

Laayoune
Dec 1, 2001

Una nohe en el desierto

Enjoy Desert Life
Feb 2, 2008 (1 photos)

EMERGENCY AEROMEDICAL EVACUATION 0630H  wake up from sleep, self admin, routine task, 0835H  receive information from TeamSite duty officer possible need for CASEVAC today 0900H linkup patrol from Tiffarity to Mehairiz for 2 1/2 hours. ...

Laayoune
Jul 19, 2010

Laayoune