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 taxi in Laayoune by sachara
From Laayoune the connections are rather good. There are the grand blue taxis and buses. The taxis are faster, the buses a bit more comfortable.
From Laayoune there are also flights to Dakhla, Agadir, Tan Tan and Casablanca and even the Canary Islands. Leave a Comment Theme: Car/Motor Home
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Later in the morning we had some oncoming cars, 4 WDs and campers of travellers heading south, the ones who spent the night in El Dakhla. Leave a Comment Theme: Car/Motor Home
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remember that from dakhla to the border is almost 400km. Leave a Comment Theme: Car/Motor Home
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be careful with taxis, these region is know to have people getting kidnapped or robbed. Leave a Comment Theme: Other
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Since Western Sahara has a lot of very desolate areas and the public transportation is very poor in these area, it might be a good option to rent a car if you are interested in seeing the landscape in the country. The roads generally are pretty good (as long as you're planning to go all the way to the south or east), and a very good thing: the petrol is very cheap here!
I rented my Dacia Logan in Laayoune at a company called Massira Travel. The owner Ibrahim is a very friendly guy ( if you meet him tell him that his friend Pieter from Holland says hi ) and is very willing to help you. For a day rent they only ask 26 euro's, and there is no trouble like a compulsary fill-up of the tank after using it: as long it is about as full as you received it, it's fine.
Massira Travel can be found at 20 Avenue Mekka.
Some important tips about driving in Western Sahara:
- make sure that your gastank is always more then full enough: you don't see a lot of gasstation here!
- be prepared to see a lot of camels at the side, or even on the road. The roadsigns warning for them clearly are not for nothing.
- don't be afraid of getting lost here: first of all there are hardly any roads except for the one road from north to south, and second the roadsigns are not only in arabic, but also in latin alphabet.
- be prepared for so called "walking dunes": you'll often see sanddunes being moved by the wind, blocking a big part of the road. Big machines are always busy cleaning the roads but it's a never finished job...
- make sure your windows are closed when you cross an area like this, or you have 10 cubic metres of sand on you lap in no-time.
- you'd better keep the car-papers and your personal papers handy all the time, because you'll often need to stop at one of the many police-checkpoints to show them. Leave a Comment Theme: Car/Motor Home
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Although Laayoune is not a very big city, it is still way too big to explore the whole city on foot, unless you are a really fanatic person. For example the distance from the old Spanish (lower) town to the modern (Moroccan) city is about two kilometres, pretty steep uphill, and from there to the bazaar is about the same distance.
For these distances using the Petit Taxi (small taxi in French) is the ideal solution. The Petit Taxi is pretty cheap (3 to 5 dirhams) and it's fast. You can find them everywhere: every small red-and-white car is one, but they always have a sign "Petit Taxi" on the roof to make it extra clear.
Often the drivers don't speak English or French, but if you just mention a name of the place you want to go to, they will go there. When you have to pay, just give 3 dirhams. If they think they deserve more (up to 5 dirhams) they will make sure that they speak exactly the few French words that are necessary.
Officially (as far as I understood) there are specific places where the taxi's are allowed to stop, but according to my experiences nobody really cares about that. Leave a Comment Theme: Car/Motor Home
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If you want to go from Morocco to Western Sahara overland there are only two option you can choose from. There are no trainconnections this far south, so the only possibilities are the bus and a the shared taxi.
The cheapest option is to take a shared taxi. These depart from basically every city in the south of the country, but this is a very inconvenient option: two people are put on the passengers-seat in the front, and four people in the back. Believe me, even in the big Mercedesses that they use this is very, very tight!
The better option therefore definitely is the bus. Several companies have connection to what the Moroccans call "The Sahara Territories", but the one I used, Supratours, is one of the most comfortable and most reliable ones. In every city where Supratours goes to, they have their own office and place where they depart: don't look for them on the main "Autogares".
We took the Supratours bus to Laayoune from Agadir (Inezgane). From here it took us 12 hours to reach the destination and the costs for this were 195 dirhams (28 dollars). From Marrakesh the costs are 280 dirhams (38 dollars) and this takes 16 hours. The busses all depart in the evening and depart early the next morning. Leave a Comment Theme: Bus
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