stuff bag reclaimed.. Celebrate with a 'bucks.
Howard fesses up to a middle night nature break - next to the vehicle in the main thoroughfare. Protocol violation.
New driver's assistant is less hostile this morning and reveals he speaks some English.
Morning prayer.
Load vehicles and head southwest then due south across a giant expanse of nothing.
No guide so very quiet in the tourist vehicle.
Mid desert vehicle maintenance on the 'new' vehicle ('98 diesel). The older one is an '82 petrol engined Land Cruiser.
Maybe a front-end alignment at the next stop.
Long long drive today, mainly south, and slightly west for 220km with nary a road to get in the way. Mid afternoon we gave chase to a herd of gazelle.
Small goat sized beasts that are very quick. Much bouncing in the vehicle as Akmed gives chase, photographic quality suffers.
Tuareg encampment Tabort a few km before reaching the well at
Tadent. Very few people around. Talent is not the final destination but another 20km south. French military fortification evident on hill tops.
Spaghetti for dinner with veg sauce.
Makhamid, number two mechanic, is a guitarist and also neither unfriendly nor unhelpful. Fireside music perhaps? No such luck.
Excellent night's sleep, cloudless moonless night.
- from my iPad
Location:Tadent
