plymouth - Banjul challenge
 Zebrabar To get to the Mauritania/senegal border crossing you have to drive down 99kms of the worst "road" I have ever seen. It`s essentially a dirt track along the top of a Dyke. The potholes are relentless, you get used to them, but every so often you come across a crater large enough to lose a car in. The safer option is to avoid this track and whereever possible drive along the farmland beside it. On reaching the border post the 3 deceased cars became a big >problem. Our passports held a stamp saying we had entered the country with >our cars and if we didn`t leave with them we would be liable for import >duty. Mauritanian customs refused to let the drivers of the dumped cars >leave the country without their vehicles, insisting they had to go to Rosso, 200km away, for the paperwork. >The border police were a little more helpful and suggested an alternative; 3 cars would cross normally, the 4th(Chris Uno) would pretend to return to Rosso with the owners of the 3 dead cars. After the customs man had left the police man would then call them back and let them through. At least thats how we understood it. In reality Chris wound up driving to Rosso where the 3 guys were smuggled across the border in a fishing boat. Chris then had to drive all the way back to Diama to cross into Senegal himself! Meanwhile we had made it to the gorgeous Zebrabar campsite in Senegal and in support of our missing comrades were attempting to drink till they joined us!
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