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-- From 2019/12/09 to 2019/12/15
-- From 10 Nomad Camp to Oualata
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 The GPS road tracklog
 from 10-bivouac to Atar
 from 2019/12/09 to 2019/12/09

En route to Atar

Monday, December 9 departure at 7:00 for Atar the first 50 km are painful on a track cut by transverse gullies coming from the mountain then the track became travelling in a lunar and dusty landscape. I took my distances with the Ahmed' vehicle. We arrived little before 15:00 at Atar to fill the tank with diesel fuel as well as purchases. I installed the bivouac in the Bab-Sahara camp-site to take a tepid shower running with parsimony, but finally a shower.

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Bab-Sahara camping
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 The GPS road tracklog
 from Atar to Imechât Gandini H34
 from 2019/12/09 au 2019/12/10

En route to Imechât

Tuesday, December 10 the departure from Atar was late due to the opening hour of the banks after 9:00 and on standby of the reception of rate of exchange! Finally we left this city without attraction around 10:30 for a long trip varied of stones, sand and slalom between the poop decks by keeping the cap. We arrived at the fallen night, 18:30, close to the bivouac proposed by Gandini, H34. In did Atar Ahmed took an assistance to cook and the tea?

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Lunch pause
To Imechât
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Bivouac
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 The GPS road tracklog
 from Imechât to Matmâta via Tidjikja
 from 2019/12/11 to 2019/12/11

En route vers Matmâta via Tidjikja

Wednesday, December 11 the day was announced radiant. Alas a light wind shaving the ground rose then became a true sand wind darkening the view as well of the car of Ahmed as of his traces on the ground. We took the asphalt road from Atar to Tidjikja to make diesel fuel then to go to the Guelta Matmâta in order to see, if possible, crocodiles. The approach of Matmâta is on a very soft sand track. I deflated the tires and progressed in 2nd reduced to approach the site of bivouac.

To Matmâta
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Matmâta

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Guelta Matmâta
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 The GPS road tracklog
 from Matmâta to Tmarfiga via Tidjikja
 from 2019/12/12 to 2019/12/12

En route vers Tichitt via Tidjikja, Tmarfiga

Thursday, December 12 around 7:00 am we approached prudently and in silence towards the edge of Guelta Matmâta to try to see crocodiles. Alas we weren't lucky because none of them appeared during nearly one hour of observation. We turned over to Tdjikja to supplement the tanks of diesel fuel to reach Tichitt, Oualata and Néma at approximately 800 km of sand track. But Ahmed noted a mechanical problem with his clutch whose repair in Tidjikja took three hours during which I published the pages of my website and proceeded to the monthly put-with-day of Windows. We left Tidjikja around 15:30 to bivouac at Tmarfiga close to the J1/11 waypoint by Gandini.

To Tidjikja & Tmarfiga
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Tmarfiga
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 The GPS road tracklog
 from Tmarfiga to Akjinjeir via Tichitt
 dfrom 2019/12/13 to 2019/12/13

En route to Oualata via Tichitt, Akjinjeir

Friday, December 13 the departure was at sunrise. The track was sandy and partially stony always in splendid landscapes. The lunch pause was at the bottom of Djebel Zig close to a concreted well. We had the visit of a shepherd who took the tea with us and proposing some unimportant objects to us. In Tichitt after the recording with the gendarmerie we looked for a guide to visit the city and the library. The mosque was observed the external, Friday is day of prayer. Some manuscripts were presented to me by the conservative of the museum, but this one is not of any interest. The service station is out of use. The bivouac was established to approximately 35 km from Tichitt close to the site of the Neolithic village of Akreijit, waypoint J2/10 de Gandini.

To Tichitt

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Mosquee of Tichitt
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Tmarfiga
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 The GPS road tracklog
 from Akjinjeir to bivouac
 from 2019/12/14 to 2019/12/14

En route vers Oualata, 16-bivouac

Saturday, December 14 two sites were visited. The Neolithic village of Akreijit at the top of the plateau dominates the arid plain. The access is carried out by a cemented staircase without difficulty. The village is composed of enclosures surrounded by dry stone walls well installed of which one of them is a cemetery with raised stones. At the bottom of the staircase a rectangular building presents explanatory panels of the site. Many site antiques remain quoted by Gandini which assigned time did not enable me to see. The progression eastwards Oualata was carried out slowly in a sandy plain while slaloming between the cram-crams. The lunch pause was at the Rocks of Makhrouga carved by erosion. The progression continued always slowly eastwards on a not very visible track. The bivouac is established shortly after a pillar, Gandini J2/37.

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Akreijit neolithic town
To Makhrouga

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Makhrouga rocks
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Bivouac
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 The GPS road tracklog
 from bivouac to bivouac
 dfrom 2019/12/15 to 2019/12/15

En route vers Oualata, 17-bivouac

Sunday, December 15 was still a long day of very varied tracks sand, stones, small dunes and meetings. A camel driver overlapping his charger, a splendid dromedary, harnessed well and the face covered against the wind and sand. Finally at the wells of Oujaf an immense herd of camels (dromedaries) watered of which the water drawn from a large pocket then winched with a cord by a camel. Of course I was cordially accommodated by the nomads who offered a sparkling milk bowl to me of she-camel. It is improper to ask for to the nomads the number of animals of the herd; Ahmed estimated it at more than 500 heads. Around 16:00 the bivouac was installed away from the track of Oualata before the waypoint J2/67 de Gandini.

To Oualata

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On the track to Oualata
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Bivouac