Pre-read Note: This post is from our 2019 Basque Country - Senegal trip. We never did a post about the days when Gaspard and I reunited in Marrakesh, just before our families arrived to visit us. Why now? Well, because we are planning something in relation to our trips, and first we have to cover... Continue Reading →
This movie features cycling through the no man’s land between Western Sahara and Mauritania, the iron train (one of the longest in the world), Ben Amera (the world’s third-largest monolith), the chaotic port de peche of Nouadhibou, the incredible library of Chinguetti and much more… https://youtu.be/Yvvj7mChoiU
This video of 584 kilometers features us bikepacking through endless sand dunes, a Saharaui bachelor party, ghost towns, breathtaking cliffs… Western Sahara, sahbi. https://youtu.be/_JGu9H9xYL0
This movie features us biking (992 kilometres and 10'000 m elevation gained) over two weeks through the atlas mountains, the arches of Sidi Ifni and much more… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd0Kk4kfg2c&feature=youtu.be
Day 81: Toubacouta - Banjul (24th of April) We wake up in Ibrahim's garden in Toubacouta. His wife prepares breakfast for all, but Javi does the mistake of picking a bread with mayonnaise thinking it was butter and, out of courtesy, feels forced to eat it. Mayonnaise for breakfast. Never again. Ibrahim wants us to... Continue Reading →
This movie, of 856 kilometers cycled in two countries over two weeks features the Touba Mosque, the city of Saint-Louis, a border-post between Gambia and Casamance that doesn’t really exist, and much more... https://youtu.be/uHYde2fC02M
Day 75: Lewihda - Saint Louis (18th of April) We wake up around 70 km north from the Diama border between Mauritania and Senegal. It has been a tough night, really too hot: we have sweated like pigs. At least for Javi; Gaspard keeps sleeping like a baby -and snoring like a lion-. Plus, the... Continue Reading →
Day 67: Bir Gandouz - Nuadibou We wake up with a mix of feelings, a bit nervous but also excited and eager to face this delicate border of Guerguerat. We pull a bit of money from an ATM, pretty much because we just have the 55€ for the Mauritanian Visa. We have no idea what's... Continue Reading →
Day 58: Guelmin - Tan-Tan (1st of April)After a fantastic night getting bitten by the mosquitos, we let Lysiane and Patric have breakfast a bit earlier than us so we can split and not find each other again on the way all the time. We have been told that "there is pretty much nothing" until... Continue Reading →
Day 54: Tafraoute - Tiznit (28th of March) The day kicked off with a very paranoid Javi, scared of not being able to make it due to his stomach pain. The road was not specially helpful: not far after leaving Tafraoute, the valley ended and a tough uphill started, with dry nude mountains surrounding us.... Continue Reading →
Cycling Pirates 