My "Saharagelber" 300TD

Last night I got sick. It was horrible, when I was in bed I woke up and had to throw up immediately, I did not have to the time to get out completely, but was able to keep it outside the tent
I was sick, feeling really horrible. Melissa took care of me all day, very sweet. But that’s one of the reasons we’re together of course.
Melissa spend her day reading and Ramon found a mauritanian friend, the sun of the owner of the place, they were able to play together today. I was too sick to do something, so this day sucked big time for me.
I spend the day in the tent and on the toilet and sometimes somewhere in between. The camping owner sometimes asked Melissa if I was okay and offered some suggestions (rice, and cola for my stomach).

The Camping “Baie du Levrier” in Nouadhibou, the place I got sick.

Ramon played with this boy today and we told him his new friend was looking very happy, while he was playing with the beach tennis rackets we bought in Morocco. We told him it would be very nice if he would give it to this boy at the end of the day, but only if he wanted to do that, of course.
We gave it to Ramon just some days ago and he was very glad we finally had something to play with during the holiday, because we forgot to buy something like that. He thought about it for a while and then broke our hearts, as he indeed gave it to the boy, knowing that this boy hardly had any toys and was very glad to play with these rackets.

In the beginning of the evening a dutch woman came by, she was a woman of a mauritanian man and saw this dutch old Mercedes and so started talking to Melissa. They chatted for a while and a bit later they invited us to a dinner in their house here in Nouadhibou.
I was too sick to join but wanted Melissa and Ramon to go, this was a cool experience they really had to do.

Today we departed for the sahara, we saw some wild mules and an amount of nice birds. It was a long trip today we had already seen the big dunes. Furthermore the area consisted of great plains with stones. I found out the car was leaking motor oil today, which was strange and I hoped this would hold for the rest of the trip, I have to keep an eye of this. During the trip we did not see a lot of cars, and the cars we saw were mainly Mercedeses. Lots of W123 taxi’s but also loads of W201′s and W124′s.
That night we arrived at the camping ‘Le Bedouin’. After you see the sign ‘Le Bedouin’ you drive for about 5kms over a piste and then you arrive at the camping, there is practically nothing but sand and stones over there. It is windy and small place but very clean.
You just park on the sand and during the day you can stroll around.

The Cactus, a real die-hard able to survive in the dry sahara

Melissa being excited. Fort Bou-Jerif

Endless roads

Are we there Yet?

Bird watching

Some nice part with a small lake and greenery

The dunes, Sahara

Our favorite time of the day: cappucino with a bit of Amaretto while driving and enjoying the surrounding views.

The official beginning of the Western-Sahara

The camels

A camel with the sea in the background

Spooky..

There she is, with the new imperial and rooftent installed. Furthermore the jerrycans and the sand ladders were installed too. Thanks to the help of Destination Adventures it was alle configured perfectly, you can shove the sandladders underneath the imperial. The jerrycans and the spare wheel go up front.
Then he installed the waterfilter on a wooden board. Perfect service, so if you live in the neighbourhood of Amsterdam and you need stuff for overland trips, give it a try.

http://destinationadventure.nl

The saharagelber @ Destination Adventure. The rooftent is just installed.