 look how big the sand dunes are and then the wind is hitting us like 90 degrees Hi I'm Lavi and this is Oli we are attempting a new Guinness World Record to become the youngest pair to circumnavigate the globe by motorcycle. After riding 3,000 miles across Europe we are now ready to explore the roads of North Africa. Click the subscribe button to follow our journey around the world and let the adventure begin. Good morning world welcome back to the channel it's day number 72 on our round the world trip. So we are here camping right in front of the ocean in the small town of Acfenir. I'll just show you around. So here's our little camp with Bumblebee and here is the Atlantic Ocean and the Acfenir town beach. It's pretty cool we asked the local Gandammery if we could camp here that's the police station and they are just over there and I don't know if you can see but there's also a cyclist called David that we met yesterday and he's camped his tent just over there and he asked at the police station as well and they said he could camp just behind. So that's really cool here it was a really cool wild camp last night. So I had a really good night because I'm always sleeping with earplugs and with a sleeping mask and also the temperature was really nice so I could cuddle into my sleeping bag a little bit because sometimes it was a little bit too cold oh this is so so nice finally to feel like a little bit too cold. But there was a lot of there was a lot of noises and things there was like some cats visiting the tent during the night and I think at 5 a.m. the call to prayer in the mosque behind us that was going on at around 5 in the morning as well so yeah it was okay it was all right. So let me show you guys where we're heading today. Okay so this time we're not even on the main map of Morocco anymore we are here on the western Sahara map at the very very top just around here at Sidi Acvenir and we are gonna be making our way down the coast down down down down down down through Tarfaia through Laune all the way down if we can make it to Bouchdor. So Bouchdor might be a little bit of a stretch at 238 miles but it is pretty much just one road down the coast so we'll get started we'll see how far we can make it and if not we'll just find a different spot beforehand. So yes it is 235 miles which is about 375 kilometers it's a very long way to go so better hit the road let's go. Oh yes look at this one do you want to swap? Should we do it? Off he goes. Brave David cycling down to Senegal. So when you see someone actually cycling down to Senegal. Pretty crazy. That is crazy. First stop Petrosation. Got to feed the beast with fuel. All right ready? Yes. Nice. Bye bye doggy. Uh oh. Chased by a dog in the morning. Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah. All right I think that is us leaving Acvenir and hitting the road south. Bye bye friendly town. Yeah a lot of nice friendly people we have met yesterday. Yeah everybody was down the beach yesterday having fun they were families coming down they were kids all around everybody was coming over we took some pictures with some people they were all coming over to say hi yeah it was a really nice atmosphere in that town actually really really nice. 22 degrees at the moment it's a little bit chilly. A little bit on the fresh side this morning but it's a welcome freshness isn't it it's like it's a it's a nice freshness yes it's like we can just ride we're not getting sweaty it's just ah it's just nice it was really cool because David from Ireland was camping in the same place as us so we had a coffee with him this morning and a chat last night so that's really nice to see other people it's crazy as us making their way down the coast. Yeah it's always nice to share experiences with other people who are doing the same thing because sometimes you're questioning oh is this what I'm doing like safe or is this what I'm doing like right and then you see our man he's just cycling it easy what we're doing compared to what his mission is. Just over there on the right side of us that is the Knephys National Park and it's pretty much a massive area of sand dunes we can't see it too well from here and there's also sand dunes on the other side of us as well. There are huge absolutely huge wow and I think yeah even ahead there are some sand dunes yeah so I believe the Knephys National Park is a sort of centred around an estuary area and is an important place for for bird life so that's really nice to see that they've got a national park here with all the sand it's really not a place that we can actually visit. Yeah I think Bumblebee wouldn't like that. No no no we had a quite a lot of trouble in Mozuga with the sand so I think we'll stick to the highway and we can just observe the dunes from here. Yeah it's still an epic area just to drive through like that it's really really cool. Okay the wind has really started up again it's super super strong coming from the coast the wind has gone crazy. Yeah totally crazy. Oh my god yeah I have to drive so much slower because we're just being battered from the side. Yeah it's not very very nice. No that is gonna be again the biggest challenge for today I think it's just gonna be keeping a straight line on the road. Yeah. Whilst that wind is just smashing us. Yeah. Jesus. You can see as well the sand blowing across the road and there is actually a little bit of sand in the road there. Wow. So we're gonna have to stay really really vigilant to make sure that we don't smash into these sand pits. Yeah look another bit of sand there. Yeah. And there's so much sand blowing across the road right now. Wow. Look at that that's insane. Wow. Yeah it must be a constant battle to just for the government to stop the sand from just engulfing the entire road. Look at that. The highway is running right next to the ocean again so that's really cool to have that ocean view right next to us even if sometimes it's a little bit close. Look at that. Oh my god. Very close very close. Jesus. I mean that doesn't look like it's gonna last that much longer before parts of the cliff start falling out and parts of the road start going with it. Yeah pretty crazy. So we just went past Tar Fire and now the wind is behind us so at 60 miles an hour I can put my hand out and I can barely feel the wind resistance is unbelievable because the wind is literally going the same speed as we are right now. Yeah it's absolutely amazing it feels so good. It's crazy it feels like we're not moving. Yeah it's brilliant I like it. Yeah I don't know if it's if this is the reason that they built this road here a little bit more inland that you actually go kind of with the wind but if this is the reason then that's really clever. Yeah really cool. Okay after a whole lot of desert a whole lot of nothing we've reached Laune. Yeah look how green it is here. Yeah. The entry of the city. Wow that's a really big place here. Oh yeah oh yeah Laune is a city and there aren't that many in Western Sahara. It looks really pink down there. Yeah I guess there's bacteria in the water and look it's just sitting there stagnating so look it's gone all it's gone all pink. Nice that looks beautiful. Wow here's a McDonald's. It's like it's like the first McDonald's since Tangier. I think literally since Tangier the first one we've seen. Yeah. Well look at this place honestly it just looks like full of military people. Whoa and look there's a water fountain in the desert look at that. Nice. Look how fresh that looks with some fresh grass as well. Oh my god I just want to jump in there hey oh my god we're just gonna stop for a little break here in town grab some water before continuing our journey out into the desert. What's that? Somebody just said hi. Are the police saying hi? Yeah maybe maybe stop here. Do they want to say something to us? I don't know maybe. Ah that is so funny we were just like stopped by the police but he literally came up to us and he was like you are you guys are on TikTok no? And we were like yeah we have a TikTok and he was like oh I love your TikTok you're famous here oh I just wanted to come and meet you and he gave us a hug he was like oh you're very welcome I'm at your service here and this was the police that's so cool like I thought we were being stopped because we I did some sort of traffic violation or something but no he just wanted to say he was a big fan take a picture together that's beautiful ah we love you. So we just stopped for a nice little refresher here in Laun. Look at this centre here this is like it's a proper city here. Yeah it's really really cool. Yeah palms and grass and yeah it's crazy. A little garden here on the side wow that's very green here. And look at this massive square here whoa. Yeah here's definitely something going on in the town. Yeah so we're just gonna top up our petrol because we were told that here is super cheap fuel look 14.9 dirhams per litre compared to 18 dirhams or 19 dirhams per litre further up the coast so it's worth topping up. Salam. Salam. Cool. Let's do some more mild thing. Yeah. Hello bonjour. Bonjour. English, Alemania. Your destination? We are going to Burjdor. Burjdor. Welcome in Morocco. Thank you. Thank you. All the best. Thank you. Thank you. Look at the centre on the side of the road. Yeah that's not a good sign. Look at that I mean we have massive sand dunes just next to us. Oh my god we literally just left the city and immediately it's like oh welcome to the desert. Oh my god this bit is crazy look at this. Wow. We're 90 degrees from the coast at the moment facing the coast so the sand is just being blown across. Oh my god. That's absolutely insane. Whoa. Whoa there's some really strong wind now. Oh my god. Oh my god. I'm really having to lean against this now. Look at this truck it's like almost tipping the truck over. Wow. That's quite scary hey. Yeah I don't like that. No no. This is just insane look the massive amount of sand just next to us. This is really out of this world I mean look how big the sand dunes are. They've already taken over half of our lane. Oh my god. And then the wind is hitting us like 90 degrees. Wow. Insane. What a ride. The road is looping south now. Wow I've never experienced wind like that before. Oh my god this was insane. Okay that's a bit less extreme here now. Return the corner. Oh my god. That was one of the craziest bits of road I've ever seen in my life. Oh man. What an experience hey. So we've done really well so far. We've done 153 miles of our day. It's currently 2 in the afternoon and we've got 90 miles left to Ritz-Buschdorf so it looks like we are gonna make it to Buschdorf in the end which I think will be our longest day of the trip so far. So I think we've done pretty well. At the moment it feels very peaceful and calm. You can just see how the sand is moving across the road which is quite hypnotizing. Yeah and it's crazy to think that that sand is heading that direction and in that direction there is the Sahara Desert. Just the whole of the Sahara Desert. I mean thousands and thousands of miles of desert lies that way of us which is to me it is absolutely insane. We're just on this narrow strip of road between the vastness of the ocean and the vastness of the Sahara. It's just crazy. We're just poodling along making our way crossing the whole of it. Unbelievable. Sand sand sand. We just have to stand here on our break and that's about it. So finally after 240 miles of windy and sandy desert here it is Buschdorf. Our destination for today we have actually arrived. That is unbelievable. Man that was a ride. Okay we got a police checkpoint. Oh look there's an ostrich. Bonjour. Bonjour. Ça va? Ça va? Passport? Thank you. C'est ça? You have two big ostriches. No ostrich wild. No. Disappointing. Merci beaucoup. Merci. Suzuki Vistrom. It's a powerful... It's a really good bike. Not BM. No no. Wow. Look at these ostriches. That's fun here. That's cool. He said cheap bike. He said oh Suzuki oh cheap bike. Cheap bike. No BMW? No, no, no. Unfortunately not. No, no. We love this bike. I love Bumblebee. It's a best bike. So we've got a camping place in mind that we found on Ioverlander. We're just gonna pitch up the tent and just relax because 240 miles is by far our longest day and yeah we're gonna need a good rest after this. I really like all these curved street lights. Yeah it's pretty. It does look really really cool actually. Yeah, yeah, yeah it looks like a big place here actually. Wow. Yeah and quite a well-kept main street as well. It looks like quite a nice place. Yeah it does. Quite a lot of cafes and restaurants and places. Yeah. Nice apartment blocks. Yeah I like the place. I thought they were camper vans but they're not. They're not. That's funny. Is this a campsite? Yeah it is. I don't know if it is. All right well I'll see if anybody's around. Yeah let's check it out. Let's check it out. Okay so we spoke to the guy who's here and he said we can pitch up anywhere we like. 65 dirhams so €6.50. It's really not a bad price so we've decided we're gonna shelter ourselves behind the toilet block in front. Shall let's drive over there. Here we go. There we go. Ah. Très bien. So this is the spot where we're going to pitch our tent on this nice flat tile area. There we go. Toilet block just behind. Not bad hey. Yeah you got a wall around for shelter from the wind. Yeah cool. Let's set up. Good evening guys. We made it happy and alive. Yes we've arrived in Bougedor after the longest ride of our trip so far. We did about 244 miles which is 393 kilometers. Pretty crazy. That's crazy. Silly 400 k's. Yes. Wow. And it was really crazy ride as well. Like the first half of our day it was just windy, windy, windy. Then there was crazy sand on the road. It was really scary. Yeah we were really out there in the harsh conditions of the in between the Atlantic and the Sahara and it was just like everything going crazy today. But the second half was really nice because we we were like one with the wind. Yeah pushing us from behind it was like. Yeah the wind was supporting us but at the same time we could really feel that there was no wind around so we were like one with the wind so that was a super crazy experience. Yeah yeah it was a crazy day but we pushed through and we made it all the way here to Bougedor. But this place is crazy because up until 2019 this place was you know bustling with a lot of people here and a lot of things going on. They have like a football field or a basketball slash football field. They have like a car washing area. They have like everything you need but in 2019 everything here just stopped so they have like nine or ten French cars just sitting over there that where the guys literally had to evacuate and leave and they pretty much just left their cars behind and they've been sitting here for the last like three years pretty much just rusting away and it's quite crazy to see that everything in this whole campsite is just has just rusted away over the last three years. The sand is claiming pretty much the whole campsite again so everything is just it's just becoming a desert again. It's as crazy how much it can change in three years. So that's it for today we hope you enjoyed the episode. If so please give us a thumbs up, subscribe to the channel, comment below. We will see you next time.