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johnsakura Says: doors here are painted in all sorts of colours and materials which create a very nice pattern along with the mud houses.
johnsakura Says: Youll notice houses here are a bit destroyed. Someone told me they had a great ztorm a few months before which destroyed almost everything and also ended their electricity and all. People here live far away from everything. I have no idea from what people subsist from.
johnsakura Says: for sure the best way to travel here. there are no asphalt roads not good conditions non-asphalted roads. Expect rock roads with a lot of sand around the village. The way to Bir Moghrein is kind of rough to small cars, can be done but its not a very easy task.
“Le Mure” -> Way to Gueltat Zemmour
johnsakura Says: You get to the wall and you have to deliver your passport to the Moroccan authorities. You stay under Moroccan army custody maybe even for a few days. Don’t go out of the asphalt as it has lots of land mines. You have to wait maybe up to a few days to get the permission to...
Gueltat Zemmour ->To Layoune
johnsakura Says: We got permission and headed to Gueltat Zemmour with army 4x4 on the front of us. Due to much sand also in this part (no road exists, or many parts are really in bad shape that is better to go into the sand), again my friends had to jump off the car and be transported on the...
Fortress on the border -> “Le Mure" 36kms
johnsakura Says: Fortress on the border with Western Sahara -> “Le Mure”NO Man’s LAND. BE careful be careful be careful. mines, pirates… old asphalt road broken by explosions at least 4 times until the “WALL”. 2 of the times was quite hard to pass. about 36kms.continues on next tip
Bir Moghrein -> Fortress on the border +-56km
johnsakura Says: Bir Moghrein -> Fortress on the border with Western Sahara (on Michelin Map it’s the star)We had to make 96km until a place known has "Le Mure" or "the wall" which consists of a thousand km wall separating Morocco from the land mines of the Western Sahara land, full of...
johnsakura Says: We got to the police check point on the town and stayed there until they stamped our passports out, and we knew that was going to be the beginning of our big adventure as there is no entry police control stop on the Mauritanian side and also on the Moroccan border. No man's...
Zouerat -> Bir Moghrein +-440km (part 3)
johnsakura Says: So this picture is from the cafe or restaurant on top of the Rich Mountains. This is the only stop existing in the way. Lots of kms without a living soul but here, incredible...This is divided in different parts. right side for tea and business men like Saharawis and...
Zouerat -> Bir Moghrein +-440km (part 2)
johnsakura Says: Half the way you pass the Rich Mountains, where on top you have a small café that usually have some Polisario taking some tea, painting new car plates with new numbers. No I think this is where the problem can be for many people. This is one of the dangers, as many people...
Zouerat -> Bir Moghrein +-440km (part 1)
johnsakura Says: I was coming by a small car and my friends which had to switch to a Toyota pick up truck due to the extreme weight on our small car, too much weight for the desert tracks that connected Zouerat to Bir Moghrein, making the total of 440km of tracks. After two days of...
johnsakura Says: you'll find lots of polisario or sarawi people along this route. Remember this is the passage way to get to Tindouf 600km north in Algeria.
johnsakura Says: This is how does a Bir MOghrein average houses looks like from the inside. They have a couple of weels where they take water from inside their house.these people gave us a room foto spend the night and even cooked a special vegetarian meal for us. Quite nice people indeed....
johnbradshawlayfield Says: The town was destroyed by the war between Mauritania and Morocco. This has left many people poor. Hence they kidnap the tourists for money. Also, there are many landmines just outside the city near the border. Hence, donot wander around.
johnsakura Says: there are lots of land mines on your way to the moroccan wall. dont go off the road. Of course saying "dont go out of the road" its quite easy, but in reality, the road is completely destroyed and you need to go out to the sand...
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if you agree with someone to do something, write it down and make that person sign the deal. after if that person changes the agreement you can go to the police and show the paper. ususaly people change the deals and you say "hey i didnt say that" and they say,no no, you said, NOW WE GO TO THE POLICE, and because they know you're afraid of the police they know you'll try to solve hte problems.
Unique Suggestions: dont be afraid of the police, if they say, lets go to the police, you say" Yes yes lets go to the police and yo'ull see! with this you already earned a few points of your discussion.
Written May 23, 2004
johnsakura Says: Old spanish road of Western Saharawe are already inside morocco or better no mans land of western sahara. this area has lots of pirates that can rob you or kidnap you, last year a group of germans were kidnaped here and people asked for money to the german government.you...
johnsakura Says: This is the castle that stands right in the border with Morocco. From now on and along 30km (militar outpost) you have no mans land, with pirates and criminals, lots of land mines, destroyed roads...think twice about passing here, or at least bring a 4wd car, go by me!!...
johnsakura Says: When the sun was rising, we started to go in direction of the moroccan border. we got out 6 oclock in the morning. How about if i told you we only got to the border 2 hours after . this is nothing right, but then to go from there to the wall moroccan military outpost yes we...
johnsakura Says: Bir Moghrein is nothing much than a militar outpost with mud houses. No commerce at all. I only saw a cpople of street shops which i thing can be the only way to get goods here in town. If you're traveling from NKT bring some provisions along or you'll pay maybe 4times more...
Bir Moghrein is located on the Northern region of Tiris-Zemmour. This toen is located 360 meters above sea level and to get there it seems you just passed the Moon. Incredible. Heading north to Bir......
Bir Moghrein, close to the border with Morocco-Western Sahara is located 350metres above the sea level in the northwest region of Mauritania. You have only option i.e the car to get here from Zouerat...
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