Hotel Josefina Laayoune
Laayoune, Western Sahara
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Sand as far as the eye could see
Imagine getting out of your tent and all you can see is sand. Imagine, driving for miles and all you can see is sand. Imagine, going to bed and all you can feel on the bottom of your feet and in your hair is sand. Sand, sand, sand, sand as far as the eye could see.
After leaving the seaside town of Essaouria, we prepared ourselves for 5 nights of bush camping. Bush camping, I anticipated baby wipe showers, bush pees and poops and fire collection, but I ...
Civilization
... Morocco. Just a stretch of land littered with scrapped stuff and a well travelled path indicating a safe route passed the mines. Some minutes later we rolled up to the Moroccan side of the border and went through all the usual procedures. It was somewhat late by the time we had cleared everything. It was with the help of the floodlights we carried on our roof, our caravan of 3 rushed through the wasteland that is West Sahara. Covering some 800 kilometers that day, we did ...
Big saharan town
We arrived into Laayoune late at night after some heavy police presence during the way. The landscape was certainly starting to look more exotic in the sense that it was now proper desert. Flat plains and straight but beaten roads. Like the old western films where telegraph poles followed railway tracks, there were big power lines parallel to the main artery of the desert. The battered and solitary desert motorway..
Entering the town in the dark i could make out ...
Militaires, Onu & co !
Au réveil, Mel est toujours malade, c'est donc Charles qui prend toutes les commandes !! Tandis que Charles roule, fait à manger, Mel Dort !
On suit la mer ! L’infini de l’Océan à droite, l’infini du Désert à gauche. Ici commencent les dunes de sable et parfois les routes ensablées.
Et Charles roule, roule. Et Charles chante, chante !!!! Mel dort toujours…
Au bord des falaises, on ...
The best experience in my life
Laayoune is situated in the Western Sahara region south of the kingdom of Morocco. I used to stay in the Parador hotel. It's a 4 stars hotel situated in the heart of the city not far from the administrative zone. The service is correct as well as the food.
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