The GPS road tracklog
from 17-bivouac to 18-bivouac, Néma
from 2019/12/16 to 2019/12/16
En route to Oualata &Néma
Monday, December 16 we arrived at Oualata around 9:45 to visit the
city registered with the inheritance world of humanity,
here.
With a local guide I climbed the hill to see the citadel
as well as having a panoramic view. Then I sauntered in the old city
to admire the doors of the houses to the worked framings brushing
past of ruins and refuses of plastic and of cans on the ground. No
camp-site or inn could accommodate me for a night. We continued up
to Néma where the search for a bivouac was quite as unfruitful
consequently I spent the night at the Hotel El Baraka with hot
shower and air-conditioning; the outside temperature had reached
35°C. Sometimes until now the full with diesel fuel was always made
at Total gas stations to have a “clean” diesel fuel, certainly it
should be sought on the borders of the city, Nouakchott, Atar,
Tidjikja, Néma, Ayoun-El-Atrouss and, even Tintane. The capacity of
the three tanks of my vehicle of almost 200 liters was sufficient to
make the 721 km way of sandy tracks from Tidjikja to Néma with tires
at 1.4 and 1.6 bars.
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| House gates in Oualata |
The GPS road tracklog
from 18-bivouac to 19-bivouac
from 2019/12/17 to 2019/12/17
En route to Tamchaket
Tuesday, December 17 was a day on asphalt road from Néma to
Ayoun-el-Atrouss then up tol the junction with a track leading to
Tamchaket on which the bivouac was established under the trees.
While passing to Ayoun el Atrouss the complement of the tanks of
diesel fuel was made thus that food purchases.
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| Lunch pause |
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| Bivouac |
The GPS road tracklog
from 19-bivouac to 20-bivouac, Tamchaket
from 2019/12/18 to 2019/12/18
Tamchaket back from Aoudaghost
Wednesday, December 18 the track up to Tamchaket is under
construction since 2018 in becoming of a tarred road,… in a few
years so much work seem slow and rare machines of building site, but
certain infrastructures are already carried out. The crossing of
Tamchaket was one great moment of obstruction as well as meeting
with students leaving class and presenting their English and French
books to me. The track up to Aoudaghost was long and painful to see
a partially excavated preislamic city and presenting little interest
due to way of access and back little before Tamchaket to bivouac.
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| To Tamchaket & Aoudaghost |
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| Bivouac |
The GPS road tracklog
from 19-bivouac to 20-bivouac, La Pass de Néga
from 2019/12/19 to 2019/12/19
Tamchaket to La Pass de Néga
Thursday, December 19 the backwater at the entrance of Tamchaket is
the biotope of three crocodiles according to the local fame like two
children expecting the arrival of the hosts which according to their
statement, the spectacle would start around 9:00. I thus waited to
distinguish one of the specimens. We continued our progression to
traverse the track of the Pass of Néga, known as of the 1987 Raid
Dakar, in the opposite direction fromf Boumdeït to El Khedia.
Admittedly the landscape is dramatic and the well traced and very
deep track, as Cyril Ribas says it in his book: “Where Dakar passes
the track trespasses”. The bivouac was established little before the
beginning of the track in the direction of Dakar.
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| To Tamchaket & Aoudaghost |
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| Bivouac |
The GPS road tracklog
from 21-bivouac to 21-bivouac, nord de Rachid
from 2019/12/20 to 2019/12/20
La Pass de Néga vers Tidjikja & Rachid
Friday, December 20 the target of the day was to reach Tidjika to
make the complement of diesel fuel in order to go to Atar. On the
way we stopped at Guelta El Kedia where crocodiles lived. To expect
them we took the tea and we had visitors. At the end of one hour of
patience the crocodiles remained in their home. After the stop at
the Total gas station we continued beyond Rachid to bivouac away
from the road.
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| Bivouac |
The GPS road tracklog
from 22-bivouac to 23-bivouac, Atar
from 2019/12/22 to 2019/12/22
de Rachid à Atar
Saturday, December 21 on the tarred road from Tidjika to Atar we had
several dunes barring the road obliging us to make sometimes
embarrassing out-track. The landscapes are dramatic in particular
before the arrival at Atar where the color of sand makes contrast
with the black of the mountains. Of course we established the
bivouac at the Bab-Sahara for the weekend.
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| Bivouac |
