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-- From 2019/12/02 to 2019/12/08
-- From Nouakchott to nomad Camp towards Atar
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 The GPS road tracklog
 dfrom 03-bivouac to 04-bivouac, Nouakchott
 from 2019/12/02 to 2019/12/02

En route vers Nouakchott

Monday, December 2 the progression was to lead us to Nouakchott via the beach. Alas we arrived too late because the post of the gendarmerie of Nouâmghâr prohibits this way to us and asked us to join the road N2 for Nouakchott, here, where we arrived around 22:30 at the Terjit camp-site.

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 The GPS road tracklog
 from 04-bivouac, Nouakchott to 05-bivouac vers Akjoujt
 from 2019/12/03 to 2019/12/03

En route vers Akjoujt

Tuesday, December 3 was a long day of shopping before going towards Akjoujt. It was initially the change of the diesel fuel and oil filters of my truck at Mercedes-Benz. With Ahmed the supplies took much time, so much the palaver is an obliged ritual, it is Africa. We bivouacked on N2 close to a station of gendarmerie.

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 The GPS road tracklog
 from 05-bivouac to 06-bivouac to El Geïtât
 from 2019/12/04 to 2019/12/04

En route vers El Geïtât

Wednesday, December 4, still of the bitumen up to Akjoujt to fill the tanks with diesel fuel and water. Then after the lunch pause we began the progression in the desert to reach El Geïtât while passing the Pass of Foum and Tizigui to cross a cord of dunes. It was one moment of pleasure so much the landscape is imposing and the sinuous way in soft sand. The bivouac was installed close to a camp of nomads with milk tasting of she-camel.

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Foum et Tizigui
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 The GPS road tracklog
 from 06-bivouac to 07-bivouac at Atar
 from 2019/12/05 to 2019/12/05

En route towards Atar

Thursday, December 5 the target was El Meddâh, Tifoujar Pass, oasis of Terjit, then Atar. It was still a long day of soft sand to go to Tifoujar coming from the village of Meddâh. The rise of the pass is particularly stony with a photo close to a splendid acacia before beginning the descent in soft sand, very soft. The stop at the oasis of Terjit is resting and fresh before traversing the 45 km of tar towards Atar, here, where I bought a second SIM card but for the smartphone to communicate with my brother. The bivouac was established in the camp-site Bab-Sahara, colonized by the Germanic people.

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to Tifoujar Pass
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 The GPS road tracklog
 from 07 bivouac to 08-bivouac at Tanouchertr
 from 2019/12/06 to 2019/12/06

En route vers Tanouchert

Friday, December 6 after the diesel fuel at the Total gas station at the exit of Atar we moved towards Chinguetti then the oasis of Tanouchert. The approach then the rise on tar to Ebnou Pass was one moment of pleasure so much the landscapes are stunning. By a cross-piste we arrived at the entrance of site of Fort Saganne whose guard invited us under his tent. The view of the fort at the bottom of the mountain in the plain where the film with Gérard Depardieu was held is very evocative epopee of the battle. A little more far roc paintings are hardly visible in a cave. The corrugated iron track towards Chinguetti is painful. We visited one of the libraries of manuscripts présented by the Imam of close mosque. Some documents were presented to me and commented on with the story of Chinguetti, here, through the ages. We went to Tanouchert by a soft sand track where the bivouac was established in an enclosure called camp-site, certainly with shower and toilet.

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Ahmed & Mosque Imam
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 The GPS road tracklog
 from 08-bivouac to 09-bivouac at Agoueïdir
 from 2019/12/07 to 2019/12/07

Ouadane

Saturday, December 7 after 64 km on sand track the town of Ouadane, here, appeared hung to cliff. It is almost a dead city, a museum city ruins under the effect of the climate and the progression of the desert by the invasion of the dunes. The walls out of dry stone are cemented by a conglomerate which disaggregates, the walls collapse. The progression brought us to Agoueïdir to bivouac close to the nomads.

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Mosque Ouadane
to Ouadane
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 The GPS road tracklog
 from 09-bivouac to 10-bivouac at Nomad Camp
 from 2019/12/08 to 2019/12/08

Guelb Er-Richât

Sunday, December 8 we tackled the crossing of Guelb er-Richât. The origin of this structure for a long time was very discussed. Pr. Theodore Monod was the first to fix its geological origin; a mass in fusion of the magma bored the earth's crust without emerging involving its folding in several concentric circles of almost 25 km. Of course the stony trip is very painful and is not of any interest being the nose on the ground without possibility of taking height. Only a bird's eye view, by plane, can make it possible to understand this phenomenon. At the time of the lunch pause women came from nowhere presented artisanal objects. In El Beyyed the small museum in a straw hut exhibits artifacts plundered in the neighbor necropoles. About twenty kilometers further on we bivouacked close to the nomads away from approximately 200 km of Atar.

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Guelb Er- Richât
Guelb Er-Richât
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