I feel I’m piggy-backing on Zeds’ s thread but thanks for the info guys, will be useful for my October trip. I’m only going down to Dakar and looping back, taking about 5 weeks but it sounds like Dakhla is worth more time an overnight stay. I’ll have a tent but mostly plan to use hotels although sometimes the campsites are where you meet the fellow travellers/bikers and as I’ll be on my own.
Hello everyone, update time. I have moved on a bit, it seems sometimes the travel runs away with itself. I have a long piece to put up so please bear with my indulgence. When I was researching and planning this trip there were two things that kept coming up visitar el sitio aquГ. One was that everybody says Senegal is one of the best African countries to visit and the other was that border is the worst to get through. Now this kind of played on my mind a lot during the build up. There were lots of I got through, I survived sort of stories but no real information. So in the hope that it helps someone who like me was a little concerned here is how I crossed the border. I am taking this straight from my journal, as it was written on the night my feelings about things are in there, so not an edited later version. Continue reading I was going to rough it somewhere but I sort of bumbled over the border