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.
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.
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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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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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 |
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 |
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 |
