January 28, 2018  The finish line of the rally was in Serrekunda, right next to the capital city of Banjul. It’s a beach town, so hotels and restaurants have sprung up near the main road…

January 27, 2018  The Gambia is the smallest country on the African continent. Yet to get from Janjanbureh to Tendaba, about 100 miles, took us several hours. This was due to the countless roadblocks that are…

January 26, 2018  I wasn’t even surprised anymore whenever we got lost. We wanted to go off-road and follow the provided GPS coordinates but the itinerary proved to be very challenging. We ended up on…

January 25, 2018  A noise woke us up in the morning as if we had set up our tent in the middle of a village market. About 50 cars were camping under a bunch of…

January 24, 2018  We were woken up early by the muezzin, so we weren’t the last ones to get ready in the morning for a change and we even had time for breakfast.We filled up…

January 23, 2018  Nouakchott wasn’t supposed to be on our off-road tour itinerary, so we had to plan our own route for this day in order to meet up with the rally teams again. It…

January 22, 2018  The off-road stage that followed the very difficult Sahara Desert section from the previous day would be similarly difficult, we were told. Hence, we decided to skip the off-road section and head…

January 21, 2018  The rally stage from our desert camp near Bou ​​​​​Lanoar to the bivouac near Atar turned out to be the most challenging of the whole trip.We had a very early start again…

January 20, 2018  We started our day very early, leaving the camp at around 6am. We were heading for the Mauritanian border, and knowing that another 130 cars had the same plans for the day,…

January 19, 2018  One of the downsides – among many – of a disputed territory such as Western Sahara, is that some areas can be full of landmines. In some parts of this region it’s…

January 18, 2018  Our goal for the day was Laayoune, the Capital of Western Sahara, about 360 miles from Icht. After quickly washing the mud off of the windscreens, we left the hotel, driving west…

January 17, 2018  I’ve done some research around the definition of ‘off-roading’ or ‘off-road driving’, and there is a debate on where can you draw a line between on-road and off-road. I don’t think we…

January 16, 2018  Today’s stage was Midelt to Ouarzazate. We started very early, at around 6.30am, and headed for the off-road tracks and river beds. The previous day’s drive was really nothing compared to this…

January 15, 2018  Great sleep on the ferry, during which we arrived in… Spain. Melilla is still Spain so we had the border crossing in front of us. We expected it to be chaotic –…

January 14, 2018  After a great, long sleep in the outskirts of Munich the previous night, we felt so relaxed (well, Evelin did – I crashed around 3.00am) that we carried on driving overnight, only…

January 12, 2018  Start date! The long awaited start date of the Budapest-Bamako Rally had actually arrived. It was quite a long wait, with preparations taking place over the previous weeks and even months.  A…