With regard to maps and guide books, all of them are out of date and won’t have all the new roads on. Fortunately for the WS there is only the main coast road to Mauritania, the Tantan-Smara-Laayoune road and old coast road from Tarfaya.
Google maps has been unblocked and is usable for directions now, although it did try to route us through reservoir that was constructed several years ago.
The inland pistes in the WS. They aren’t technical but are very remote, limited phone signal and of course there’s a risk of Uxos. We found mortar shells and rocket casings back in April near the Tantan Smara road. When we did the Dakhla piste in November we saw 2 vehicles and maybe 2 people in 3 days. As I’ve said before I don’t recommend travelling solo if you’re not an experienced desert travellers.
Inland Mauritania is similarly remote and finding petrol can be more difficult but not impossible. 2 motor biking social media types who recently documented their Mauritania travels had 4x4 support they didn’t mention. That said some friends who are very experienced travelled unsupported for several week in Mauritania on bikes last December.
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