Monday, as I'm reliably informed the next day is called, will be a rest day for those of us who arrived in Dakhla today. We'll be giving our vehicles some TLC and off-road upgrades, then moving to a new camp on the mainland, shaving 80km from our hack down to Nouabidhou and the Mali border on Tuesday morning.
On the menu for us is an examination of Titch's undercarriage, and probably a visit to the local chop-shop to boost our ground clearance and weld something protective onto the sump. Dakhla has a whole row of mechanics who specialise in fixing cars destroyed by the desert or adapting them for the local conditions!
We'll also hire a guide to take ourselves and several other teams through Mauritania to Nouakchott, and smooth matters at the Mauritanian border – rumoured to be a real struggle.
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Good luck at the border!
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