Friends,
With some hard driving we made it through Mauritania in 5 days (1.5 days getting through the Moroccan border!). Its a spectacular desert country so it was a real shame to rush it. The security situation seems stable (plenty of heavily armed military patrolling the highway) but most other tourists were doing the same as us and driving straight through, all in convoys and some with armed protection.
The police and army throughout Morocco and Mauritania were excellent. All very friendly and mostly very professional. We had far fewer attempts to extort ‘cadeaux’ from us than we were lead to expect by other blogs. This seems to have changed for the worse in Senegal, starting with a €20 ‘tax’ to cross a bridge in no mans land, but we have only been here a day so perhaps we’ve judged them too soon.
We are now enjoying some down time in St Louis. Our campsite straddles the Senegal River and a great beach.
For those of you who are still trying to figure out exactly who we are check out the new diary characters page.
Cheers
