T2T Day 10

T2T Day 10 20-Nov-2011  “Bungal, George and Zippy”

Miles covered: 225         T2T miles so far: 2,336               Punctures : 0    

Evening Meal: Tagine (chicken) * 3

Road hours : 09.30 - 16.30

Another day another single road mountain pass for T2T.  The landscape has changed noticeably as we enter the edges of the Western Sahara, leaving the tranquillity of the Med-like coastline behind us, we approach the long road to the Southern Morrocan border with Mauritania. The heavy overnight rain still lingered and we had to drive through a couple of heavy downpours.

Towns start to get few and far between as we head into Western Sahara, so we needed to secure some more local currency and photocopy more fiches at our morning coffee stop. Jas and Kev also took the opportunity to top up their Scotoilers, improvising with an empty water bottle.

The team decided to break with tradition and partake in an Alfresco lunch of bread, tinned tuna, amalou (a local speciality of ground argan nuts and honey….sort of like peanut butter) and peanuts.

Suitably refreshed the team hit the somewhat formal looking town of Tan Tan on what used to be Morocco’s former border. Here they managed to ensconce themselves into a cheap but suitably clean hotel with secure parking.