… but still I believe it was a good idea not to take the racing route. Out of 24 teams that started the stage today 3 turned back, 5 have arrived in the camp, the others are lost somewhere in the dunes.

Tomorrow we will cross the border to Senegal and hopefully everything will be back to normal again.

Driving in a convoy means we always have to wait for the slowest teams to arrive before we can continue. At one of those stops yesterday Craig set up a typically Mauritanian roadside coiffeur shop.

His first clients were Michal and Milos. The results are not bad at all but still I am glad I could escape from his scissors.

Today would have been our last chance to do some nice dune driving, but unfortunately the security measures in Mauritania don’t allow individual cars to drive alone. We have to drive in a convoy escorted by the army with machine guns and kalashnikovs. I don’t think those soldiers could help us in case of a serious attack, but at least they are keeping away nasty children asking for petite cadeau and give our families at home the feeling that we are well protected and safe 😉

The camp today is on a beautiful beach surrounded by dunes. We had to wait for low tide to come here and hence arrived in complete darkness, I am looking forward to seeing the beach tomorrow in daylight.