A story of one of the legendary W123's of Mercedes on vegetable oil
Archive for September 2006
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| Yesterday we found ourselves a good spot, right after the border. It appeared this camping in the border area Gambia-Senegal was a good place to rest. |
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| The waterpools from yesterday reached the airfilter. |
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| Colourful Senegal |
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| Senegal. The good road again, heading towards Kedougou. We try to get to Mali from there. |
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| Heavy mud, Bassari country (Senegal) |
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| Our own instant camping in Gambia. We found a great spot, a bit of driving from the road. We managed to find a great place to spend the night. We talked a lot about our interesting day, we had experienced local life and the great hospitality from Pa and his family. |
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| Going through the pool. North side of the river Gambia |
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| That was fun! Coming out of this deep pool was questionable, or so I thought… The Benz did the job easily. |
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| Pure fun driving on (or in?) these roads! |
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| Friendly and colourful women” |
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| Waiting for the ferry. |
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| And it does fit on the ferry! Honk honk! |
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This one was tricky  |
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| Tough one! |
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| The rainy season makes the drive a lot more exciting. |
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| The 504 has ‘seats’ on the roof too |
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| A friendly local invited us to his family’s home. |
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| The smaller members of ‘Pa’ his family. |
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| The colourful gambian people. |
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| Pa’s family |
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| A well decorated Gambian home |
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| African (Gambian) women in doorway |
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| The next Gambian national soccer team |
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| African children (The Gambia) |
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| Invited for dinner! |
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| Lots of dirt roads when driving from west to east Gambia |
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| Wet lands, North side of Gambian river |
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| Time to clean up the Mercedes. Now that I’m alone, it’s easy to make a mess. I’ve got some cleaning up to do tomorrow. I feel like a real wanderer. |