Hotel Josefina Laayoune

Hello!!

I'm in Laayoune after a long and tiring bus hourney through the desert. Unfortunately this is as far as i'm going to get, due to the security situation in Mauritania it would be silly and unsafe to continue. I am getting the overnight bus back to Marrakech tonight, then flying back to London on Wednesday.

Laayoune is a very wierd place - a city of about 200,000 people created by the Spanish only about 70 years ago. Since then ...

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 tried for the first time (a little stronger flavour ...

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!!! hey ...

Dream Rating:   ; ; B- Background: We had spent two days crossing the Sahara along the Atlantic coast 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 Dream: The sequence of events in this dream ...

I left Marrakech on a bus at 03:30 bound for Agidir in southern Morocco. This bus was no Greyhound (sworn off those too years ago), but it was only a 4 hour ride and I fully prepared myself for the 20+ more hours on a bus once I reached Agidir. Agidir seemed to be a ghost town in the morning, nothing was open and when I inquired about the next bud to Dakhla, the lady told me 7pm and it will get me there 5pm the next day. weighing my ...

Saaaaaaaaalut Je suis de retour au maroc depuis 1 semaine. Quel bonheur. Ca a pris 2 jours venir de noachott jusqua laayoune. On a réeussi a trouver un transport. Pas trop évident puisque les seule voiture qu'il y a sont celle que les francais ramene pour vendre en mauritanie. Donc les voiture viennent mais ne reparte pas. C'est un camion de légume qui nous a transporté. Il en a quand meme profiter pour nous faire un gros prix de toubab. Heureusement on a eu de l aide d un ...

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 manger le couscous chez lui. On fini par faire parti de la famille. Henne, hamman, faire la cuisine, cours de conduite... on se sent comme a la maison. Nous repasserons un jour c'est promis.

On our second day in Marrakesh, we sampled the local transport when we caught a bus into town. It's amazing how many people they cram into one bus and it was packed. After being dropped off, we started walking to the main square when one of the guys decided we could take a horse drawn carriage for the remainder of the journey. So, yes, we did the cheesy, touristy thing and climbed aboard. It cost us less than a dollar and it was quite fun as neither of us had done anything like it ...

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 your sand path and drive. We did get invited for mint tea with some guys in the traditional blue cloth, who happened to be on the same bit of sand!!!