Videos and drones in Algeria
 

First videos from our trip with Bartosz:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTopGRiEnLo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcHVW_Igjdo&t=127s

BTW XR650R ("The Big Red Pig") is a superb choice for the desert.
Great fun to ride in the most beautifull place on earth on the BRP.:funmeteryes:

If you want to know more about XR650R, please see this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT6BzXiERsI

Thanks for these videos !
RR.

Trossman's video from last month: Fadnoun - Afara - Tadrart.

https://youtu.be/Oepr946qJgM

Tam wilaya (province) is not open to overland tourists (except maybe a quick Tam - Assekrem and back). Maybe next year they say.

Algeria - Tadrart
 

Short trailer of our trip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZECfIBGm2o

Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bl28p-o11M

Film from Tadrart
 

Video from our January expedition to Tadrart organised by Bartosz from wyprawy4x4.com with the help of joniec-team.pl.

Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfTYV_wYkc0

Just watched the video...looked really great. Was quite surprised that they took along a quadcopter. I wonder if that was declared or was an 'unoffical' bit of kit. But kudos to all those testing the possibilities again in Algeria. Wish I was able to go this year instead of next.

In Tunis Bartosz and his friends were questioned for couple hours for using walkie-talkie between cars. I recommend to keep a low profile.

Grrrrrr! :( I was irritated when I read that. I bought one of these - https://www.dji.com/phantom-3-standard - hoping to take it down there, but the tour co said not to and I hadn't flown a drone before, so for both those reasons bought this instead - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00OCFMV...986871_TE_item - on the basis that if it got confiscated or crashed I wouldn't be losing very much.

I got through Algiers and Djanet airports OK (having heard from someone on the LHR-ALG leg of my flight that his brother had got 5 years in prison for taking a picture of an Algiers courthouse, then saw someone with a pair of OPERA GLASSES having to hand them in at Algiers airport doh), so then I spoke to the main tour guide, who said "don't fly it when we're near the army or police, but otherwise no problem". So I did, but unfortunately it didn't fly that high or last very long before it crashed one time too many. I didn't get much footage from it.

Once back in the UK and with a tiny bit of flying practice under my belt, I flew the Phantom for the first time and seeing the footage I could have got with THAT if I'd taken it to Djanet rubbed salt into the wound - https://youtu.be/kns6P0jJVhs

But then, the Phantom has more metal bits in it than the cheap plasticky one, so who's to say it would have got through the X-rays OK just because the other one did?

Algeria - Tadrart
 

My answer about dron discussion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS4Oktw_ozM&t=5s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9L21xK5JuM&t=187s

[QUOTE=Bartosz;562535]My answer about dron discussion:
]

Hi,
dron? what it's means?

RR.

[QUOTE=roro;562563]Hi
I mean it is possible:thumbup1:

Ah, drones! OK!

Wow. Just wow. This is gorgious. Is that what we are missing by not having access to Southern Algeria? ;-)

Algeria - Tadrart
 

This part of Sahara was the most beautiful I have seen in my travels

Hi Bartosz. Nice to see still traveling together with Tomek. I have to exchange my priorities, so no extreme travels this days. Probably I'll have to move to Australia from where some ride reports will follow.

Thomas

I'm glad to hear you. Yes, we made this trip with Tomek and I belive we will make next travels in future.
Will you move to AUS for a long time?

I was there (Melbourne, Townsville, Brisbane) November last year. Huge part of business waits for me. If everything goes like expected, than for good.