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Border closes from 6pm to 8:30am: Border closes from 6pm to 8:30am
johnsakura Says: If you come here you have to make sure you dont pass these times. the border in north morocco never closes but this one here has this special schedule. if you get here after these times you'll have to sleep in the 5 start hotel which will be or a tent (your tenet if you have...
johnsakura Says: If yo ugo to KM 40 after dakhla where the police checks for peoples ID, you can get a ride from tourist going south. many people sleep in dakhla to leave in the morning to mauritanian border. I got a ride to this moroccan point and from here got another different ride. Be...
johnsakura Says: You can easily go with your car. be careful not to hit a landmine. after the first moroccan police cheackpoint you have 7km with bombed road and sand. as sson as you get to the first mauritanian police checkpoint you have even worse deseert tracks to get to the second police...
johnsakura Says: I know there are taxis that will take you from Dakhla to the last Police check point in Bir Gandus. They will drop you off in the border as you can see on the picture (taxis are those red mercedes). i also know that a taxi will cost around 100euros, cos you have to pay the...
johnsakura Says: The last costumes of moroccowhat you see on the picture is in fact the last morocan authorities building. you can actually notice the wall that separates the protected are of western sahara from the region with land mines.this region is ful lof people trafiking and...
johnsakura Says: police in morocco advert that in western sahara you shouldnt give rides to local people in your car. there are reports of many people getting robbed while giving rides to nice local people. you have to understand this is a very problematic region full of bandits.year 2003 a...
johnsakura Says: You see that metal thing on the sand. it was a 4WD french car!!! no more comments neded i think...
johnsakura Says: after passing police check point and you actually go out of morocco, towards the no man land between the moroccan securitty wall and mauritanian police checkpoint, you have to be careful with people trying to kill you, rob you or just to guide you in exchange of some money,...
johnsakura Says: from dakhla to bir guendouz (aprox. 400km) you only have one petrol station that sometimes can be out of gasoline or diesel.this is located i think 80 or 180 (hehehe sorry about the 100km difference) from bir guendouz!!
Border closes from 6pm to 8:30am
johnsakura Says: Border closes from 6pm to 8:30am If you come here you have to make sure you dont pass these times. the border in north morocco never closes but this one here has this special schedule. when i was coming from mauritania to morocco (western sahara) for the first time i had to...
johnsakura Says: To go out of morocco territory is like this: first you arrive in bir guendouz, the last police check point of morocco down south in western sahara. you have to leave your car closed and go stamp your passports on the first house on your left side. on the house of the left...
johnsakura Says: it was normal to the police to ask people coming with their veicule for some money. i still got that when coming the first time, but when coming back again nobody asked, and then coming with my own car, nothing happend also. usualy police officer would ask you for 100DH (10...
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You see that metal thing on the sand. it was a 4WD french car!!! no more comments neded i think...
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Bir Gandus is the last building complex you'll find in Morocco (or Western Sahara if you want). This is the police control check point for passports when coming in or out of the southern part of...
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