View from the road
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Independent from France in 1960, Mauritania annexed the southern third of the former Spanish Sahara (now Western Sahara) in 1976, but relinquished it after three years of raids by the Polisario guerrilla front seeking independence for the territory.... [read more]
Independent from France in 1960, Mauritania annexed the southern third of the former Spanish Sahara (now Western Sahara) in 1976, but relinquished it after three years of raids by the Polisario guerrilla front seeking independence for the territory.... [read more] Blog: From Nouakchott to Nema
Date: July 28th 2008
We took a mercedes grand-taxi from Nouakchott to Nema, 1000km away near the Malian border. The trip took 25 hours through rain storms, lightning storms, sunshine and darkness. At one stage we were crawling through a flood in the very middle of a thunder and lightning storm, with water around our feet from the flood around us and coming through the roof from the rain. For a while we lost the road b ... read more
Date: July 28th 2008
We took a mercedes grand-taxi from Nouakchott to Nema, 1000km away near the Malian border. The trip took 25 hours through rain storms, lightning storms, sunshine and darkness. At one stage we were crawling through a flood in the very middle of a thunder and lightning storm, with water around our feet from the flood around us and coming through the roof from the rain. For a while we lost the road b ... read more
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Travelled in Germany, France, Holland, Spain, Italy, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Morocco, Mauritania, Western Sahara, Mali and Senegal.
Lived in Malawi for 8 months in 2006, teaching in a secondary school. Went back to Africa in summer 2008 travelling overland from Paris through Morocco, Mauritania, Mali to Senegal. Maybe will visit Eastern Europe next, or ideally Russia and Siberia!... full info
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