Border Senegal – Mali (Kidira)
Duration: 45 min
Costs involvd: none
General impression: easy
This must have been the easiest border crossing so far. There's really not much to it.
About 2 km before the border: get you...
Mali, ma belle
It seems like we’ve entered a complete different world. If you want to take a picture here in Mali, you get the brightest smile. In case you're in need of something, people are there to help. When we leave on o...
Green at last
People kept telling us how great the Casamance region, in the south of Senegal, really was. The place to be, the friendliest people, the greatest of environments. So we had to go there for sure.
Now here’s t...
Border Senegal – Gambia – Senegal (Farafenni – Soma)
Duration Farafenni: 1.5 hrs (30m Senegal, 1h Gambia)
Duration Soma: 1h (45m Gambia, 15m Senegal)
Costs involved Senegal: 500 CFA for filling out the passavant form
Costs involved Gambia: 1000 CFA unoff...
New Years Eve in Senegal
After all the horror stories about the border between the Western Sahara and Mauritania (border crossing was a breeze), there were those even wilder stories about the Senegalese border. We had heard of people h...
Border Mauritania – Senegal (Diama)
Duration Mauritania: 1,5h
Duration Senegal: 1.5 h (+Registration Carnet de Passages in Dakar)
Costs/person involved:
Mauritania:
customs 4000 MRO unofficial per bike
500 MRO road tax official
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Mauritania and the first crash…
We left Dakhla and the Western Sahara behind us and apart from our fuel bottle being stolen, all went well. The Mauritanian border promised to be a horror story, at least that’s what they warned us for. They wo...
Border Morocco – Mauritania (Guerguerat)
Duration Moroccon side: 45m
Duration Mauritanian side: 1h 15m
General impression: easy
Costs/person involved: 5€ for the fixer, 120 € fort he VISA (from 01/01/2017 on 50€)
People had warne...
The hunt for a shower
The sealed road took us about 500 kms further to the town of Icht in southern Morocco. The last few 100 kms were dark already and the neck muscles started to ache due to the cold of the night. But that was comp...
Sun, sand and sweat
It’s been a while since we got the opportunity to keep up with the website. We are in the south of Morocco right now and we finally have a reliable internet connection so it seems. Every campsite or hostel owne...
Border Spain – Morocco (Melilla and Ceuta)
Duration: 45 min
Our impression: piece of cake
Costs involved: 0€
Step 1: Driving out of Spain: put on your friendliest smile, show your passport and off you go!
Step 2: Once on the Moroccan s...
Trip report: Namibia 2010
Cape Town
From Cape Town, through Namibia up to the Angolan border and back. Caro on her KTM 640 Adventure and me on my KTM 990 Adventure. That is the outline of the plan for next month. Our first challenge? G...