James Sillars

James Sillars
Of Carmarooned
On the The Africa Rally 2008
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A conclusive entry

So after a few days to gather thoughts and re-align ourselves back to the left side of the road we can bring the trip to an end. The last entry made was very brief because as usual, we were in an internet cafe with a timer quickly running out. That was in Kribi, the day after the party. We had one day to put our feet up and acclimatise to not driving for hours on end every day before we had to get to Douala. This day was spent chilling on the beach and in the sea, both of which were the same warm temperature. We spent the evening trying to control a crazy crowd that had formed to buy our belongings that weren

James Sillars
Of Carmarooned
On the The Africa Rally 2008
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Just a little update

Last time we left an update we were enjoying the accomidies of the Nigerian embassy in Dakar. Well that didnt go well for some reason they didn't want to give us a visa but they were quite happy to keep our money, lovely. So we got out of Dakar as fast as we could and headed for the Mali border along possibly the worst road in the world. Pot holes in pot holes and trucks with blown tyres every 100 meters, but dont worry there was a nice new road being built to be opened next year!! The car took abit of a battering exhaust fell off and the undercarraged got a nice screape clean but all was ok.

Mali

The best border yet sailed through and didnt have to pay to get out of Senegal! Met a couple of swiss guys at the Mali customs trying to import a Merc to sell in Bamako I dont think this is done to often in Mali as they were having some issues. Once that was resolved the four of us set up camp not to far from the border and dinnied of rice and tinned fish courtesy of Loz. Cuised on down to Bamako to stay in Catholic nunnery, no beer then. Had our first real sucesful day on the friday managed to get our Nigerian and Birkina faso visas score. The Nigerian consulate came and had a chat with us, ask how the queen was usual banta then issued the visa no prob!

Now in djenne visiting the largest mud mosque in the world then hedding south to Benin to meet up with some other teams before the trip into Nigeria!

Just found out we missed a military coup in Mauritainia by two days, gutted