12.1 Dumb & Dumber - Across The Changing Sahara

10 - 14 February 2007 A montage of Team Dumb & Dumber crossing the Sahara on the Plymouth - Banjul old banger rally in their £300 Peugeot 205, with new friends "The Life Mechanics" in their scrapyard refugee Jeep Cherokee. Filmed mainly in Mauritania, between Nouadhibou and Nouakchott, we used the tarmac road so we could deliver our cars in good condition. As you can see, not much traffic for the only road between a country's 2 biggest cities! The black stuff on the left of the road in the latter half of the clip is the remains of plastic netting, a vain attempt to stop dunes marching westwards across the road. All cars (and contents) are donated to charity on arrival in Gambia.
A nice cold Gazelle beer was waiting at our next rendezvous in Senegal!

Note to The Dons - This is the way to do it next time! http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ubKxvlE9fcE

The song, about taking water for granted, seemed appropriate. Check out Benji Kirkpatrick on Myspace.

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• Dumb
• Dumber
• PBC07
• Plymouth
• Banjul
• Challenge
• Sahara
• Rally

[freesoulsearch]

who is the  singer..I love the song

[clancyblob]

Benji Kirkpatrick singing 'Wallbreaker'. I mention it in opening credits, and in the 'more info' bit on the right! Thanks for looking!

[BamakoDC]

Les virages, c'est juste pour rompre la monotonie de la ligne droite ?

[clancyblob]

J'ai utilisé un traducteur Internet! Je ne crois pas qu'il y ait de l'argent disponible pour la sécurité routière. C'est un pays en développement. Peut-être cela un vieux trajet, peut-être entre les endroits avec l'eau

[BamakoDC]

Ok I try telling it in English ;)

"Why there is some bends (turns) on the road (at 2:20), maybe to not make the road too monotonous?"

I'm joking cause in this part of desert there's no obstacle and the desert is relatively flat (so why turns?)

I'm use to travel from France to Mali (where I live now) to bring computers by road, and the NDB-NKT road is the best quality road of all the travel, excepted highways in Morocco with the last section going to Marrakech (not in use when you travelled ).

[clancyblob]

You have good English! I do not have a good answer. In England today I see flat land where the road has many bends. I think it follows the ancient roads that went between small villages and farms, or was easy (facile) for horses (camels & donkeys in Mauritania!). Maybe it is the same for NDB to NKT road? I would like to drive to Bamako one day, and go to the Mali Music Festival.

[boulmaouahibe]

@BamakoDC

yes you're right NDB-NKT is the best quality road + there is 50 km of highways when you come to enter NKT

[freesoulsearch]

Thank you very much

[clancyblob]

Je suis desole, je ne parle pas bien francais! Les virages, je ne sais pas; peut-etre la rue est tres vielle, est autrefois (jadis?) il y a l'eau, ou quelque chose. C'est un pays en voie de developpement. Je pense il n y a pas l'argent libre pour construire la securite dans la rue.