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Push on through to the other side

Posted Monday, February 12, 2007, 3:06 PM by Lonely Planet

Days 9 & 10: The Wheelers continue their push through to Mauritania on the Plymouth to Banjul rally.

Saturday-Sunday 10-11 February
Our first vehicle malfunction in Agadir, a puncture fixed for 10 dirham, about US$1.50. Then it's two long days down the bleak desert coast, overnighting in Laâyoune and finally arriving in Dakhla. In between we've seen lots of sand, lots of camels, quite a few other Plymouth-Banjul competitors and an amazing number of French campervans, all of them white and congregating in groups. Everybody is supposed to arrive in Dakhla by tomorrow night and get ready for the push into Mauritania tomorrow.