http://300td.org A story of one of the legendary W123's of Mercedes on vegetable oil Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:24:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://300td.org/2006/11/03/taking-care-for-andrada-and-putting-her-on-the-plane/ http://300td.org/2006/11/03/taking-care-for-andrada-and-putting-her-on-the-plane/#comments Fri, 03 Nov 2006 01:08:12 +0000 blurg http://300td.org/?p=295
Parking lot at an office in Bamako, only Mercedes!
Incredible, the car with status. Only W124′s and W201′s whch still look quite good

You don’t need a T modell to sleep

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Bamako parking lot

Driving to north Mali, leaving Bamako

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Amanda and Andrada enjoying the drive through Mali

Amanda leaving for Djenne

Flat tyre.. Cause: A key from a moped

Loads of Baobab trees in Mali

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Rock formations

Huge fruits of some kind

Large mountain wall with lots small residences in it

School kids with their work-books

Dogon canyon

Walking back

Lonely tree

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Just entered Mali, staying on this lame campsite

The Saharagelber in Mali

Baobab, Mali

Chameleon

On the way to the Dogon valley (again)

Mali, on the way to the Dogon

On my way to the Dogon valley

Anoter terrific Baobab

Great scenery in Mali

The Dogon area

Small pieces of farming land

The Dogon valley

Small houses built between the rocks

The Dogon valley planes

Rock formations in the Dogon valley

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Drinking strong tea

The nomad daughter, she just came back from a 3 days walk with their cattle through the Sahara

The pretty daughter of the family.

Living a primitive and sometimes hard life, but they like it all the best

Beautiful young lady in the Sahara, north of Tombouctou

2wd in soft sand in the Sahara

Unbelievable, going upwards in soft sand! I couldn’t imagine so much is possible with only a rear wheel drive by deflating the tyres a bit (to 1 bar)

Driving the Saharagelber through the Sahara

Hooaaay!

Tombouctou town

Tombouctou library

Mosque

Isn’t she sweet?

Beautiful door in Tombouctou town

Sandy streets in Tombouctou

How a Land Rover ends up sometimes

Market stall in Tombouctou

Entrance gate of Tombouctou

The trustworthy W123

Ploughing through deep sand

Ploughing through deep sand.. Coming from Tombouctou you have to drive on this dyke, where deep tracks of other vehicles make it hard to cross. People around were amazed this ‘petite voiture’ made it through the terrain.

Gaining enough speed is the trick to go through it as is deflating the tyres a bit

Lost some speed but the Benz still goes on

The last metres and… We did it!

I think it can’t get dirtier

Sweet and healthy donkeys in the Sahara

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Tombouctou town

Sandy Tombouctou

D(r)iving into the Sahara Our german friends stayed behind en we went into the sahara with the good old Benz

Staying the night with saharan nomads

Feeling utterly relaxed, drinking tea with the nomads under the stars

Our stay with the nomads in the desert

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Waking up with the camels.
Our friends from Switzerland slept in the chairs of the germans and hung a mosquito net over it. Looks pretty cool

Sahara sunrise with the camels

Waking up at 6am, time to go on again

Camel with blue eyes

Ready to go to Tombouctou today

Direction Tombouctou

Taking the side of the dyk was a bad idea

The Ferry to cross the Niger

All cars stuffed on the ferryboat

Yes!!! Tombouctou!!!

Driving through the town Tombouctou

300TD monster reached Tombouctou

Dirt looks cool

Strong W123

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Mopti is a great place in Mali, it’s also the starting point to visit the stilt villages and the tribe on the tiny island villages.

Hundreds of boats in Mopti, Mali

Fisherman boats and equipment

Fisherman boats and equipment

Local way of transport to go to the various villages situated in the Niger delta

Small mud mosque on one of the islands around Mopti

Sweet little malian girl

Malian girl next to their village mosque

Enthousiastic kids in Mali. Everytime I took a shot, I showed the image to them of themselves. They were amazed and wanted me to take another picture all the time.

Villages in the water in the Mopti region

Huge pelicans pay the village a visit.

Mopti sunset

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Driving out of Bamako, Mali

Foot destroyed by the mosquitos

Interesting place to be I guess: Centre de Bla

Get out the rope. Well, this was just not possible, we gave it a shot but having a 4×4 is a real pro here

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