Category: Western Sahara

Backpacking Simultaneously In Mauritania 🇲🇷 and Spanish Sahara 🇪🇭: Visiting Cap Blanc, The Most Western Point Of Saharan Africa

Backpacking Simultaneously In Mauritania🇲🇷and Spanish🇪🇸Sahara🇪🇭: Visiting Cap Blanc, The Most Western Point Of Saharan🏜️Africa

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“Go West, life is peaceful there” – Pet Shop Boys. In December 2024, Marek Bladowski and I had a wild dream to backpack to the western most point of Saharan Africa. What even is that? Is there even a point where such a place exists and publicises itself? We dream up the wild things. Life Read more about Backpacking Simultaneously In Mauritania🇲🇷and Spanish🇪🇸Sahara🇪🇭: Visiting Cap Blanc, The Most Western Point Of Saharan🏜️Africa[…]

Backpacking In Mauritania 🇲🇷: Top 11 Sights In Nouadhibou

Backpacking In Mauritania 🇲🇷(and Western Sahara🇪🇭!): Top 11 Sights In Nouadhibou

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“Maybe somewhere down the road when somebody plays (at the end of the line)” – The Travelling Wilburys. I had backpacked quickly through the Mauritanian oceanside city of Nouadhibou in 2022 after completing the textbook Mauritania Iron Ore train journey. That was a trip of a lifetime, and who knew that 2 and a half Read more about Backpacking In Mauritania 🇲🇷(and Western Sahara🇪🇭!): Top 11 Sights In Nouadhibou[…]

Backpacking in Western Sahara🇪🇭: Top 17 Sights in El-Aaiún

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“I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey” – Seal. I was ready to explore the capital city of Western Sahara in 2017 and it was time to be a backpacker in another unrecognised country, this time on the west coast of Africa. I used Morocco as an excuse to visit Read more about Backpacking in Western Sahara🇪🇭: Top 17 Sights in El-Aaiún[…]

Backpacking in Western Sahara🇪🇭: My Stay at the Hotel Jodesa in El-Aaiun

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In December 2017, after a couple of days in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh, I took a border bus south to Africa’s west coast, this time crossing from Morocco into Western Sahara (still a debated country). I was ready to explore El-Aaiun the capital city of Western Sahara in 2017 and it was time to Read more about Backpacking in Western Sahara🇪🇭: My Stay at the Hotel Jodesa in El-Aaiun[…]

World Borders: How to Get From Morocco🇲🇦to Western Sahara🇪🇭(Marrakesh to El Aaiún by Bus)

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My ongoing border crossing into unrecognised countries and wacaday micronations continued as I backpacked overland from Morocco into Western Sahara on a bus. It is an overland border crossing that can also be done easily by air. Though by air, you will be questioned more on arrival. You are barely noticed when you bus border Read more about World Borders: How to Get From Morocco🇲🇦to Western Sahara🇪🇭(Marrakesh to El Aaiún by Bus)[…]

Backpacking in Morocco and Western Sahara: Suck You Algeria

Backpacking in Morocco🇲🇦and Western Sahara🇪🇭: Suck You Algeria

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On my 100 country quest in 2015 I was supposed to backpack to Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Western Sahara and then get a boat to Gibraltar. However the Algerian Embassy is the most corrupt and nasty embassy in the world and they refused my 8 day tourist visa for Algeria after I had spent £1,500 (plus) Read more about Backpacking in Morocco🇲🇦and Western Sahara🇪🇭: Suck You Algeria[…]