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Nouackchott To Atar

I went up to Atar in the Express bus which picks you up from your auberge (hostel) and drops you off at an auberge. The bra had a problem with his accellerator cable so we went 70Km the whole way. Luckily the drive is brilliant and the ecosystem changes about 5 or more times on the way up. Various types of semi-desert and desert till you get to Atar which is in the mountains.

There are loads of gendarme stops for reasons I couldn’t figure because whether or not we stopped or whether or not I got asked for my passport, seemed pretty random.

It might sound like I’m niks gewoonte [naive] but I got pretty excited each time I saw camels wondering around. The season for tourists hadn’t started yet so it was mostly me and the driver. He was from Ivory Coast and didn’t speak English but we managed to communicate when he was playing some good music from all over West Africa. Especially Salif Keita.

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