| Best day | Driving non-stop for 24 hours from the Guinean mountains, through Senegal and the whole length of Gambia, then running into the sea at the end of it! |
| Worst/ hardest day | Crossing the Rosso border into Mauritania; we couldn't go through the much-more-pleasant Diama as we only had one of the two visas. |
| Favourite place | Guinea |
| Biggest headache | Having to reverse the truck down the side of a precarious mountain on the M13 route in Western Sahara, having lost 6 wheel drive. |
| Wish I hadn't | ...bothered stopping in Fes, where the tendency for the locals to fleece you was highly irritating. |
| Most pleasant surprise | Mauritania - it gets bad press sometimes but was enchanting. |
| Any illness | None |
| Other trips planned | Sadly no |
| One overlanding tip | Take all the negative information about West Africa with a big pinch of salt. Some people thrive on spreading gloom, but often know nothing of reality. |
| Type of Vehicle | Land Rover 101 6x6 |
| Age/ mileage on departure | 30 years old, 18,000km |
| Modifications | Camper converted, lengthened, extra axle added, 6wd, plenty of jerry cans in holders, awning, roll cage. |
| Most useful accessory | Double bed in the back - much easier than setting up camp each night! |
| Mods you wish you'd done | More windows roof hatches to improve air circulation, plus mosquito nets on all windows so we could have left them open. |
| Tyres used | Czech-made MPT-05s on the front 4, bar-grips on the back 2 |
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