The pickup

During a prayer stop

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July 29th 2008
We were told that this route wasn’t passable in the rainy season, but there was a track going up on the escarpment that was being used by 4X4s at the time. We left Nema around midday, and drove straight up a track going up the escarpment, which led us to scrubby pastures populated by many goats and camels. The tracks were quite waterlogged and we got stuck quite often - we pushed of mud holes, j ... read more

Africa » Mauritania » Hodh Ech Chargui » Néma

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

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