Had a fair amount of rain last night which helped cool things down for awhile. There is just nothing to see except the blowing sand across the road and getting sand blasted. Was going to stop in Daklha for the nigjt but pushed on to Bin Gadouz another 200kms s¾outh, a long nine and a half hours, o ly stopped for fuel and some photo's. Petrol is $1.06 a litre down here, heavily subsidized. Met a Moroccan on the road that is walking to South Africa, so will see him in about two years, will take him twenty three days what I did today, it will be brutal to walk what I did today, the wind and the heat and the road, you have to be mentally strong to walk that.
At the Birbas Hotel which is very basic, no towels or soap but clean. There is a huge group here doing a rally, 36 cars and they go to The Gambia and give some charity all the cars and fly home. Had a few of them sit with me and had two ice cold beers they brought with which was a treat. There are police checkpoints at all towns and a lot down here but I am always waved through, but they stopped these guys and took everyone's paper map because it showed the Western Sahara. My map is on my tank bag but luckily have never been stopped and tomorrow will enter Mauritania, will have to hide the map now cause it has my entire route on with all my travel details written on.
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