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Monday, January 15, 2007

Sneaking through police checkpoints

Senegalese backroads

After a lazy four days and over 100 beers at the Zebrabar it is time to move on. Today we are using the back roads of the Senegalese savannah. We are travelling without a passe avant, a document necessary to move about Senegal freely with your own car. This apparently is an alternative to the police escort: When you leave the country you have present this document with your passport and the car entered.

Don and Dave left to Banjul two days ago, and apprently our car was on their passe avant together with their own car. We are worried: Martin from the Zebrabar explains to us that there are police posts all over Senegal that will ask us for this paper, and if we don´t have it they will try to charge us a hefty fine/ bribe to let us pass. I already see Mario and me dealing with a new police bribe every twenty miles.

Nevertheless we have to move on, so we join another PBC group and leave for the border. We use the Senegalese backroads in hopes to skip some police posts, and to our amazement we don´t even have one police post on our way. Lucky bastards we are!

Tonight we make it to Toubakuta, a small village close to the Gambian border. The village has a little tourist resort, and the others check into the hotel for comfort, while Mario and I try to find a camp ground. We learn that campement is not the French word for camp ground, but the owner of the house lets us pitch our tent in the court yard for little money.

1 Comments:

Blogger Chris Wood said...

Hi Marc, fantastic progress. You're nearly there then! Hope the money holds out. I'm sure I've got a few spare euros in my wallet - now where is that mailing address....?

January 18, 2007 at 10:43 AM  

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