The border crossing between Morocco/ Western Sahara and Mauritania went smoothly. We had to wait a cou ple of hours on each side and pay a hefty visa fee of 120 euros each and we were through. On the other side we could feel that there was a whole new adventure awaiting. People were different....Read More
The night before arriving in Dakhla we made camp a cliff pretty much right on the Tropic of Cancer. That is the Northernmost point around the earth where the sun would be directly overhead, so days should start getting longer and temperatures will get higher from there on. Dakhla was a much more beautiful town...Read More
Western Sahara is a country currently occupied by Morocco and most of its inhabitants have fled to the refugee camp in Algeria called Tindouf. Most people living in the country now are Moroccans but some of the original citizens, the so called Saharawis still live there and they have previously made some violent protests in...Read More
After more than a week in Marrakesh everyone had recovered and the truck had been fixed. We had never been more ready to get back on the road and continue our journey. We set off to Essaoira, which is a small coastal town for a couple of days to relax , get back to communal...Read More
It has now been ten days since the accident and tomorrow we will finally be ready to go back on the road and leave it all behind us. It feels like there has been a lot happening these days, but at the same time there has been a lot of waiting and not knowing exactly...Read More
I’ve now been over a week in Marrakesh and do I like it? Hellz yes! Marrakesh pretty much has no touristic sights, but that is also not why you should go there. You go to Marrakesh to experience the crowded streets with all the noise, smells and feelings that they entail. You can wander the...Read More
It was a cold Sunday morning on the last day of January. We had gotten up at 5.30 in the morning to arrive early in Todgha Gorge, our next stop on the journey towards South Africa. Everything was as always in the truck; some people were sleeping, others reading books, writing journals or simply looking out...Read More
After a some days on the road I have become quite used to the lifestyle that I will have for the next six to eight months on the road. The last couple of days we have been doing bush camping, which is practically finding a remote site along the road to pitch out tents on...Read More
