Travel insurance for desert
 

Can anyone recommend travel/medical insurance that actually covers driving in the Sahara?

Thanks
Andrew.

For your travel insurance to the sahara the company I recomend and have used for my own trips is Harrison Beaumont .Address is- 2 DES Roches Square, Witney.Oxon.0X28 4LG. Their website is WWW.hbinsurance.co.uk
TEL 01993 700200

It is not so much driving in the Sahara as getting covered to visit certain countries in the Sahara.

In the UK the Brit govt's FCO travel warnings to certain places like Mauritania, Algeria and northern Mali can technically render your insurance invalid in the event of a claim.
Other European govt agencies give IMO more accurate assessments of the real risks, notably France, so you may like to try and get insured there. All being in the EU you'd think that would be allowed, but who knows, maybe you have to be a resident.

I would try Europ Assistance, a French company with the English-speaking arm based in Ireland (last I knew). Used them before for blacklisted countries, as well as World Nomad (Australian). Campbell Irvine (similar to HB) seem to have lost interest last time I asked.

Then again, it is possible HB (who I've also used in the past) ignores the FCO stance, but that is unlikely as it requires too much investigation to make a decision on where FCO get it right and where they go too far.

Ch

Is it really necessary to make an insurance for places where when you get ill probably you won't get any receipt for medical fees and where there is no rescue service?
For me it seems more like trowing money away.