Sahara Trip, Christmas 2008 - (Part 2)

Part 1 is here... Sahara Trip, Christmas 2008 (Part 1)

Part 3 is here... Sahara Trip, Christmas 2008 (Part 3)
Part 4 is here... Sahara Trip, Christmas 2008 (Part 4)

The Trip Home is here... Africa Twin, The Trip Home

This is about 50 clicks into a 200km piste. I haven's seen any sign of life since I left the last village and I didn't see anyone for the rest of the day. It was a strange feeling to be so isolated...

The white stuff is a layer of hard salt under the sand - presumably a dry lake bed.

Africa Twin in it's element.

I guess this is a dry riverbed. The going is a bit rough but the AT just soaks it up.

No one as far as the eye can see...

Tanking in Tata. It took me a while to find this place. I kept driving past it looking for something with a forecourt, a canopy and a big plastic sign... Note the petrol stored in 5L plastic olive oil bottles in through the open door. The fuel is being poured through a funnel made from another plastic bottle and is being filtered through a nylon stocking!

The following day, back on the highway again for a bit. I was glad of the rest really - I'd aggravated an old back injury the previous day and was still in pain. On my map this was shown as a piste and I was simultaneously disappointed and relieved to find it was a sealed road!

Christmas Eve, Foum Zguid. Doesn't look like much but I found a nice auberge, got a very fine meal of chicken & chips and olives and made a few phone calls. There was a nice buzz about the town and quite a few deserty tourists.

Christmas morning 2008 - Leaving Foum Zguid feeling refreshed, and happy to be heading out into the desert again.

Happiness is a well prepared bike, a nearly full tank and a day filled with potential.

This is what happens when you forget to deflate your tyres after a tarmac section.

The weather is mild rather than hot, the piste is well marked and the going is fairly easy. This was a blissful way to spend Christmas Day.

Easy going, but it got sandy as I approached the village in the distance.

 

More to follow....

Part 1 is here... Sahara Trip, Christmas 2008 (Part 1)

Part 3 is here... Sahara Trip, Christmas 2008 (Part 3)
Part 4 is here... Sahara Trip, Christmas 2008 (Part 4)

The Trip Home is here... Africa Twin, The Trip Home



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