warning for Mauritania

[seanleo]

Ciao King Artu

You Ok !!
I'm From Italy Thinking To Cross Mar-maur-mali-burki-and Then Finally In Wa Or Hamale Ghana With My Toyota Land Cruiser 1979 And My Caravan (in The Rear), May Be We Have To Talk About!! Ciao
See You

Leo

[ianrichards121]

Leo
What is your expected departure and arrival dates?
We leave the UK on 7th October and will probably be in Morocco from about the 16th October. Plan to arrive in Ghana around the 1st December

TTFN
Ian

Originally Posted by seanleo

Ciao King Artu

You Ok !!
I'm From Italy Thinking To Cross Mar-maur-mali-burki-and Then Finally In Wa Or Hamale Ghana With My Toyota Land Cruiser 1979 And My Caravan (in The Rear), May Be We Have To Talk About!! Ciao
See You

Leo

[seanleo]

well, thank you for answering me......Probably I'll live in october at the moment I'm waiting a serious answer for a Spike lee movie in my country..if yes i have to posticipate the journey in the sound !!!
Well if is not october it ld be the best for me, I haven't any time to cvome back I' thinking to make a visa for ghana in mali or burkina for 45 euro i can get 9 mounths to stay !!the proble is always the CARNET of bolloks !!May be with some diplomatic personn I can get a "laissez passer" for an year !!!may be you live an ammount of 300gbp at customs in Hamale and then they 'll give you back some penats !!well keep in touch !!

now i'm calculating all the expenses as visas and laissez passer really epend on the peolpe that you can meet, can match the reality ?

ciao seyu

[robertson]

Hi to all1
just got back from RIM today...no big deal qith customs...First thanks to Armadillo for his kind information in Dakhlla (ja veus que hem tornat..).
Mauritania, mali...just countries..in nioro du saahel my s where take out from a fridg with a Bin Laden steaker, and in RIm the cell phone card seller had the Bin Laden face as a screensaver but...Still got plenty of nice people: nomads who took care of me when lost, unknown eople who took care of us at night...just nice people..i suare!
Visasa: just play dump!!We got a 72h visa extension ata a police station (10€) and whren oput of mauritania after 5 days..no problem...just keep in mind that Morocan Frontier near dhakla closes as 7 ( we got stucked in no mans land for one night ...thank's to the Gendarmerie who feed us...Thak you coronel Faruk!).
It's damm hot and dam wet in some places now ..Wejust saw 2 more motorbikes up in Dhakla...i woud recomend to take a "disc d'embragage" set...Our 2 fundiros got the same problem near Nema becasue of thhe ban
co.. would like tho thanj the guy who left 7 discs out in Nioro..you saver out tryp..._Any question? senda an email to robertcolombo@hotmail.com...maybe i can help you with some info as other travellers did to us!Speciall thankls to Chris Scott for his advice...Even withg that we where overloade and underprepared!!!

[airamerica]

Hi, I'm new here! Please, what isi this "carnet"?

[Walkabout]

Originally Posted by airamerica

Hi, I'm new here! Please, what isi this "carnet"?

Scroll through this and enjoy the reading:
http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tripplan/paper

Oh yea, welcome to here!!!!!!!!!

[airamerica]

Thx for the information!

[awight]

Hi there,
I have just returned from Mauri and Mali - last week in fact (1st Nov 2007). We went in really crap cars some as old as 20-25 years. We had no visas and certainly no carnet. We had absolutely no trouble at all at any of the borders. There is always some conflict in interesting countries - use common sense, relax and enjoy - you are in Africa :-). We paid for temporary 'import' of the vehicles in all the countries we went through Morocco/Mauri and Mali. This was never more than 10 euros. In Mauri we had to pay to exit the country which was weird (3000 Ouiga - or whatever the local currency is) one of our group didn't have the cash so gave the guy a jerry can full of diesel as payment - sweet....
Mali is a fantastic country - very laid back etc. If you are going to take 'gifts' try give them to schools in Mali instead of Mauri - kids in Mauri threw stones at us, but Mali people are amazing and very friendly and helpful - they deserve it more than the Mauri's in my view.

Have a ball.
We met a guy on Triumph who burnt his clutch out in Dakhla, and a local mechanic 'made' him a replacement one which worked a treat - yup made him one!!!! go bush-mechanics go

Cheers
Andrew