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Von Dienstag bis Donnerstag ging es noch mal auf Tour, diesmal nach St. Louis. Zum Glück konnten wir wieder ein Auto der Maman haben, damit geht's dann doch deutlich schneller als mit öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln. Außerdem braucht man sonst auch innerhalb von St. Louis ständig ein Taxi, und die sind dort ziemlich teuer. Überhaupt war St. Louis …
St louis - dakar
... a mixture of wives and girlfriends. We went back to the camp and had a "Senegalese lunch" of fish rice and tamarind sauce followed by local mangoes, the biggest and sweetest I've ever tasted. Dinner was pretty much the same but this time prawns from estuary (crevet). We left for Dakar early this morning to get to the ivory coast embassy as we're still not sure if the border to Ghana is open. Hope it is as I ...
Senegal! 847km later
The hardest days ride so far! Nouadibhou was awful so once Adrian's tossing, turning an snoring became in bearable we decided to leave at 6am and ride through Mauritania stopping at Nouakchott for a break to get to to Rosso, the border town to Senegal. We got out of town and the day started with the usual amazing scenes. About 70lm out of nouadibhou a goat ran into the road and I hit it. Luckily the impact was taken by the crash bars (hate that name!), 3 inches ...
TOUBAB IN A BAOBAB
... peeked in to watch me writing.
Large lizards - some them with sour yellow tails blending into black bodies blending into sour yellow heads - chased each other near me. Yellow finches with black faces and orange breasts chattered high above me, in the green rays of palm trees. I took a break from my writing to cut open and eat a sloppy mango.
I'd been driven from the Mauritanian border to this village, ...