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... mehr als 40 Grad tagsüber. Die Nacht hat dann immer noch um die 30 Grad. Kinder laufen dem Truck winkend hinterher und auch die Pinkelpause im Nirgendwo wird für die Damen zum Abenteuer, da, wie aus dem Nichts, Kinder aus dem Busch treten und fasziniert zuschauen, was diese seltsamen Wesen ...
An awesome rage at the end of a dusty road
Travelling through a country is often a funny experience. As travellers we all have expectations of a country, most of them good, and at times we struggle with the fact that some countries under exceed our expectations. Some countries bring unwanted surprises, and some countries leave us not wanting to visit again. Travelling optimists like to say, there is always light at the end of the tunnel. But in Senegal, we ended up saying, there was an awesome rage at the end of ...
Day 2 .. the longest trip of the TT 2011 ... 480km
Today was the longest day, in km, of this edition ... a few kilometers of sandtrack, fun to drive but also difficult ... keep the speed and never stop otherwiseyou have no other choice ... an idea that I liked ...
The sand was funny, tricky, and amazing views, because we traveled through the wild nature ...
only tracks and vegetation !
After the sand, Belgian Roads after the winter ... or should I ...
De eerste dagen Senegal
Zoals we reeds geschreven hadden op de blog van Mauretanië rijden we Senegal binnen via Diama. Ondertussen is het 26 oktober. Sinds deze zomer is de Senegaleese wet op invoer van autos ouder dan 5 jaar verstrengd waardoor het bijna onmogelijk wordt om een oude wagen het land binnen te krijgen. Gelukkig hebben we onze carnet de passage des douanes waardoor we van de douanes een passavant krijgen voor 24 uur. Als we langer in het land willen blijven moeten we deze laten ...
Timbuktu and back
Okay at last Ive got internet access and I can begin to boast about my side trip to timbuktu. We hired a jeep and 4 of us took 5 days to get there and then return and get back to catch up the truck. Grand Pere, the fixer who has been called GP since he was 10 years old, and is now a 40 something charming fella who stole my heart, helped us sort stuff out beforehand and there was Ali the Ice waiting for us in Timbuktu. More or less as soon as we got there after a very ...