Two days ago I wrote that we are lucky with the Beast, other teams have much more technical problems. I shouldn’t have written that. Today in the morning the radiator hose broke again (the same one at the same position as yesterday). This time I didn’t rely on an African mechanic and fixed it myself, lets see who is doing the better job. At least it was free of charge this time 😉

Then we had a nice 30km offroad section in a stone desert. Everything was fine and I had a lot of fun driving, but when we stopped for a coffe in the next town I realized that the hinge of the rear right leaf spring flipped over, bent the spring, and damaged its mounting. Now we are in a garage again (fortunately with an Internet cafe next door), without rear right suspension, our spring is at the blacksmith, and we hope it will come back at 4pm. This will be a late arrival at the camp again…
 Nice offroad stage:

… and its result:

Instead of a nice offroad shortcut we spent half a day in a garage today: After a few minutes of driving in the morning, one of the radiator hoses of the Beast burst. Too lazy to fix it on the spot, we were towed by another car (thank you team No. 135) to the nearest town and the problem was fixed by a mechanic in two hours. Price: 13EUR.
In the afternoon we visited some nice rock formations and two shipwrecks south of Agadir. After a nice 15km offroad bump&grind we arrived at our camp already at 7pm. Still far away from arriving before dusk, but we are improving.

Despite getting out of bed at 7am we only arrived at the camp south of Ouarzazate now, it was a long 600kms. The camp is in the middle of nowhere (for the horror film lovers: the deserted set where Wes Craven’s movie “Hills have eyes” was shot), we have satellite phone access to the Internet only, so there are no photos today. Sorry.

The highlights of the day were a 110m waterfall and crossing the High Atlas at more than 2100m on a narrow track which was asphalted the last time probably a 100 years ago in complete darkness.