| To Mauritania |
I started to Mauritania early in the morning.
Asked to the way, I saw only little villages and soon I couldn't see a way
after some kilometre. Much sand. With and without yellow grass. Bush and
lonley trees. Between some little fields and when I asked the poeple then I
didn't know it is correctly. So I got my GPS and I saw I drove parallel to
the border. And not to Mauritania. But
all poeple said the same and a man said I
had to follow this foot prints. Not left and not right. I done it and I
stood middle in the desert without prints after 5 km. And so I looked for
the way myself and crossed the border in nirvana.
So I came to Mauritania and found a little village. I asked a man to the way to Adel Bagrou - the border village. I think we had a long small talk about 10 minutes and I sort all information's to the only one and now I found Adel Bagrou 2 hours after my start in Nara. Now I had to look for the police station. Also not so easy in a French speaking country. And the police man would a fee for the entry. But I haven't money. So I hat to wait of his break, now it was in the noon, and then we changed money. Very difficult. Only a black market. No bank and we needed one hour for this. In this time the sun was very hot and I was looking for shadow every time. I fled in the shadow when I got the possibility. Now I hat to find the customs. Also difficult and I needed one hour again. So I could leave Adel Bagrou after 4 hours. A long border cross. Now I drove to Amourj. I got a hitch hiker but I was down after 30 minutes. The sun and the heat. I felt giddy. But the man was at the finish and I could gone with him in his house. I laid me exhausted on the carpet. It's rotate in my head and I felt somebody pull on my legs. I hoped of a fast regeneration. But it didn't come. So I needed 2 hours and I drove farther to Amourj. |
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| Amourj |
The sun wasn't so high as in the noon. The heat
not so hot. And the wind of drive was a little bit colder as 2 hours before.
I came to Amourj. A larger village.
Had to go to the police and the man said in Amourj isn't a hotel. I must asked in the near of the restaurant. I looked for the restaurant. Found it and in a short time came a man and said he have all what I want. I was very down and exhausted. We came to his house and I got a mattress in the open air. I got Kuskus with mutton. But I wasn't hungry. To hot and the day to tiring. I would only one sleep. Later laid the complete family beside me and slept.
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This was the most heavy day all allong the tour. My power was finish at the noon. The sun shone pitiless down on the earth. Every exercise was a pain. I looked for shadow every time. Drank much "cool" (cool is good in this heat - the water was warm) water. And when I came under the sun - the last power began to flee. It is the only one possibility here - go in the shadow or in your home and do nothing in the noon and the next 4 hours. 4 o'clock pm. - this is the first time to go outside. The Sahara is in the near.
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