Nomansland

The pic show the nomansland between Morocco and Mauritania.... Just stay on the road, there are plenty of land mines on both sides. All together it took us 2.5 hours to pass the frontier. The officers were nice and pleasant, we even drank a cup of tea with them.
Driving south the landscape became drier and drier, until even the bushes disapeared, and we saw some very nice sand dunes...
The day was not without adventure. My Ipod stopped working... Still 6'000 kilometers to go, and no music... Fortunately we were able to reboot the device a couple of hours later. It probably overheated. Actually we had a similar problem with the GPS-computer. But after fixing some aluminium foil on the top, the issue was solved.
The road in Mauritania is even better than in Morroco. We were able to drive fast and far. In the evening we planned to stay on the shore of the sea in a natural reserve. Well, we discovered, that outside the roads the terrain can be pretty tough. We had to dig the car out of the sand... Fortunately we had good sand plates... And some shoveling is always good for the muscles.... After 30 minutes we were back on the mainroad. We were not discouraged, and tried another way, but had to give up, when we landed in an unknown fishing village. It was already night, so we decided to push to Nouakchott.... And here we are... In a Hotel (ehhh, we will be able to shower again). We are now a couple of days ahead of schedule (we didn't expect the roads to be that good). So, we are extending our tour in Senegal and will drive all the way to Dakkar... We will keep you updated.