August 4, 2006, 11:04 pm
I went to the embassy very early and took a freezing cold shower, so I immediately woke up completely.
When we I came the man from yesterday told us to come back at 2pm. I felt miserable, I saw ourselves sitting and wait here for days, everytime another story. I told him we were promised to pick the visa up today at 8 am. This man told me to wait and called someone else.
The man from yesterday came towards me and was friendly. I decide to play fair and gave them the receipt, and just told them sorry. I had to be honest. He was very friendly and accepted my excuses. 2 minutes later I was outside again with the visa, Yes!
Ramon felt better today and we went off into the direction of the Sahara! During a stop we sat down next to a river and ate a good lunch. Some guy walked towards us and started kissing and hugging us. Melissa told hem to go away but he decided to stay and beg for our water.
It looked like he was drunk or something but we did not smell any alcohol. With some hassle we pushed him away, because clearly he did not understand that his company was not wanted. Finally he left us and crossed this river by just walking through it.
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| There are many shipwrecks along the coast. |
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| Road to Essaouira, along the moroccon west coast. |
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| Salt winning |
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We continued to Essaouira which was a very nice route to drive. A nice coast line, salt winnings and nice farmlands. With 100743km on the meter we arrived at the camping. There were quite some overlanders over there, among them were some pretty big trucks.
I think there was one of those trucks from Klaus Darr, a big 4wd MAN truck, comlete with bathroom, living room and kitchen. I think it’s way too big, you can only drive on the bigger roads and it’s not so easy to just go into the bush. It would be nice though, to have some comfort when you depart for a couple of years. There was an old fire truck too, the well known Mercedes truck from the sixties which is still manufactured in South Africa. It probably costed 1/80 of the price of these big overlander trucks and will probably do too for a trip of a couple of years.
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| On our way to the Sahara |
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| As you probably know, I take through-the-wind-shield pictures every now and then. |
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| A short stop for a picnic |
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