 Well, we definitely hit a lot of bad road here, wow! 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! In the town of Shammi in Mauritania, in the middle of the desert, halfway between Nuiwibu and the capital, Nuakshot. Last night we slept in this house slash tent sort of building with air-conditioned. It's just like a huge massive room and we were putting down our sleeping mats and sleeping bags here, where we're just sleeping in the middle. Yeah, it's quite spacious actually for the two of us. So that was quite alright, it was just like camping in a much bigger tent than we were used to. So that's okay, but let me show you guys where we're heading today. Okay, so we are just about here in Shammi, a very small town in the middle of nowhere. And today we are going to be making our way further down this coast road to reach the capital of Mauritania, Nuiwibu. 150 miles or 240 kilometers through the desert and it's 7.15 so better hit the road, let's go! Beautiful, alright. So our first mission for the day is to get ourselves some fuel and try and get some more cash. There's an ATM just here in this town. So we've got to go and check that out and see if our cards are going to work. And then we'll be able to see how much fuel we can get if we manage to get some money out or not. Fingers crossed. Otherwise we have just about enough money to fuel up enough to reach Nuakshot. But it's going to be a little bit tight if we can't get some more cash here in town. The streets are nice and empty. It's nice and fresh this morning. Yeah, yesterday this petrol station here was cars up until here. Full, full, full of cars of people wanting to fuel up. It was insane. I really don't know what was happening. You can see that the sand is nearly engulfing the whole streets. I mean look at this little, this is like a little car park but it's just a sand dune now. Oh my God. This is sort of the center of the town with all the market stools and things going on. And already there are things going on. Yeah, there are actually. People are out and about. All the goats are out and about this morning. Good morning guys. Good morning. At the moment it's 25 degrees which is quite nice. So, so nice compared to when we rolled in yesterday at 40 degrees. That's why we got up pretty early today and just got going. Once we hit the coast we're hoping that the temperature will be a little bit cooler. But we've got about 100 miles until we reach the coast. So we need to get through that before the temperature gets too crazy. So here's our possible ATM, BCMI. So we're going to go and see if it's possible to get any cash in this town. Okay, so it looks like that ATM is not working. It tried to connect and then it just said out of order, return to the card and that's that. So we will have to go on with what we have which is not too much Uggia, the local currency left. But we'll put everything we've got into two bottles of water and some fuel. And then basically just make our way to Nuakshot where we'll have plenty more ATMs. Yeah, so you can see it's not a very big town here. What's this? That's a bank. DAB, there's the International Bank of Mauritania as well. Should we try the International Bank of Mauritania? I think we could try these two, yeah. Let's see. Okay, so the first bank over there didn't work. So now I'm going to try Bank des Financiements Islamiques, BFI. Let's see if we've got anything going on here. No? Okay. No, so unfortunately that ATM did not work either. So that's that. We will have to just carry on. Okay, so we put all of our money into fuel, which will hopefully give us just enough miles to get to where we're trying to go. But look at the entrance to this petrol station. It's just pure sand, eh? Pure sand. Oh my God. I really thought that at least one ATM in town would work, but then try three different ones and no luck. Yeah, no luck here. So if you travel through, then make sure you have enough cash. We had yesterday still 1,800 Udia, but the money is gone quite quickly here. Yeah, so we'll have to just get a new load of cash in Nuakshot and then that should take us through to the end of Mauritania. Yeah, because normally we were supposed to wild camp here, actually. But it was so hot yesterday. I needed a room or something where I could cool down. It was absolutely horrendous. It was so hot. Yeah, we needed that air conditioning to be able to even get on the road today, definitely. So anyway, that's the best we can do in Chami. No cash, but we've got some fuel in the tank. So let's head out of town and let's make our way to the coast. Hopefully we'll get that cool ocean breeze coming back. But before we leave town, we've still got a couple of sand obstacles to pass over, of course. Nice and easy. Hello, nice and easy. Yeah, out of Chami and back on the open roads, the dusty, windy desert open roads. We definitely hit a lot of a bit of bad road here. Wow, we've got sand, we've got potholes. The full program. Exactly, exactly. Oh, look, they're actually sandblasting. Oh, wow. Yeah, I think they're trying to... Try to do some works, hey? Yeah. Wow, there they are. They're trying to fill the potholes. Yeah. Well, I mean, there's a lot of filling to be done on this road. Wow, what a job, hey? It looks very hard, hard work. Yeah, definitely. It looks like very, very hard work. The fella with his goats out here doesn't seem to mind the sand. Wow, it's so misty ahead. Yeah. There's a lot of wind and sand going on at the moment. This is the real desert right now. Look at this. You can just see sand dune after sand dune after sand dune, sand on the road, sand covering your whole house, sand everywhere. The real, real sandy, sandy desert. Look at that. Wow. It's really crazy. Yeah, it looks magical. Yeah, yeah. It's really, really, really magical. But it's such a harsh place to live. Yeah, yeah. I mean hats off to all of, we see the goat herders, we see the camel herders and different shacks and buildings along the road occasionally. And I mean, these guys, they are doing pretty well to live out here, I tell you that. As long as the dunes aren't on the road, then I'm happy to look at them. It was so stressful just a second ago in this town. Having no money, being unorganized and stupid, but now being out here and just riding along, it's very nice and calming actually. Yeah. Thank you, Bangbelbier. Wow. What a nice road, hey. Yeah, the quality of this bit is really nice. Really nice. You get the cruise control to 60 miles an hour, 100 kilometers an hour and just rolling on. That's nice. That is nice. Wow, this road has gotten super crazy now. I mean, look at these sand dunes. So incredibly pretty. It's like there's barely a road left. It's just the sand dunes piled up high. You could just imagine in one day the road could just disappear. It's unbelievable. Wow. Wow. We actually tried to fly the drone just a second ago, but our equipment is breaking slowly. Whoa. Okay. So for some reason the drone wasn't able to fly and we had to give up on it. We have also some issues with our microphones. Like on some videos we realized that sometimes when we filmed for 15 or 20 minutes the voice didn't record. Yeah, we're going to have to do a bit of electronic troubleshooting when we get to Newark shots. Yeah. Find out what's going on with the drone. Because of course in Morocco we couldn't fly it at all. And then in Mauritania I was excited that they didn't seem to have any laws against it and I was excited to get it back up in the air. And yeah, it's not working. We'll see if we can get it working in the workshop and maybe we can still do some more drone shots for the rest of our time here in Mauritania. Yeah. Fingers crossed. Just came into this collection of shacks here in the middle of the desert and they're actually some nice painted ones which is quite cool. And there seems to be quite a lot of people around here. Look, there's a purple one. A blue one. Another blue one and a green one. Crazy, it's like a little village. But really there's no solid buildings, no concrete buildings in the whole village. Just wooden shacks. Incredible. Wow. Very impressive. So the temperature is rising. We have at the moment 32 degrees. I'm still hoping that by the time we get to the coast we should be pretty close now that we should get a bit more ocean breeze and it should keep the temperature from rising too much. But yeah, it is starting to come up, isn't it? Yes, yes. It's now 10.30. And we have about 60 miles left. We're still good in time, actually. Yeah, I mean if we carry on like that we might even get to a new workshop before midday. That's crazy. It's pretty good for us, I reckon. Yeah. You can see some crows actually around as well which is quite funny. The crows they just can live everywhere, you know. You see them in my village in Northampton and you see them here in the Sahara. Yes. Wow. Look at this open view. Yeah, it looks like there's some dried up lakes or salt lakes over there in the distance and over there. Because it looks like water but there's definitely not any water here so I think it's just salt. Still too hard and we've just reached the coast but they didn't cool down as much as we were expecting so yeah, it's time for us to wear our t-shirts so that we can stay nice and cool. There we go. Oh, it's cold. Nice. Nice. Do you want me to do your back? That's nice. Salam. Bonjour. Salam. English and German. English? English? English? German. German. Yes. German. Yes. German. Yes. Exactly one. Yes. Chokran. Chokran. Bon tonne. Look at this up ahead. We have a multi-lane highway which is not covered in sand and this means that we are getting very close to the capital, the truck shots, the buildings are starting to crop up all around us, they're starting to get busier so it looks like we're arriving in the capital of Mauritania. Oh yeah, this is awesome. And people actually stopping at the traffic light when it's red. Look at this car with some sort of polystyrene on the top. Nice. So it's only another 10 minutes or so to our accommodation. We've chosen a place that was recommended to us, actually by the place that we were staying in Nui Dibu. The place here is called Le Triskel. Yeah, so the rooms, they cost about 16 euro and you can choose to sleep in a tent. They have set up tents there already so I think the price for those was 12 euro. So we have to go there, check it out, see the options. But yeah, anyway, it looks like our desert voyage for today is over. But it is still 38 degrees at the moment here in the city so it's not cool down by the coast as I expected. Nui Dibu was like 10 degrees colder than here. Yeah. It's unbelievable. Over a million people living here in Duaqshod, making it by far the biggest place in Mauritania. I mean Nui Dibu is 10 times smaller than this place. So yeah, I mean Mauritania is pretty much a country of just one major city. In 450 meters we have to turn to the right. It's very soon, very soon. Stop here. Here, here. Okay. So just follow this road here. Yeah. And then here to the to the left as well and just follow this road. And then we should arrive there in just one minute. Okay. Yeah, that's the place there. Literally scale, I can see it. Ah yeah. Perfect. Cool, look at this. Very nice. We're gonna go check that out and see what the options are. And we'll go back to you. If you love me then you have to smell it. Good evening guys. We arrived happy and alive at our place here in Duaqshod. Yeah, it's actually a super cool place. It's called Le Triskel. And oh, this is our tent. That's pretty cosy, no? It looks very cosy at the moment, very, very hot. But we talked with one guy and he said in the evening and in the night it's super nice and refreshing. So I'm excited for that. So it's a little bit of an upgrade from camping. So that should do us really well. We're here actually on the rooftop of the place. I'm just gonna show you guys out here the view. So we've got Duaqshod written here. And this place is super cool. It's got a really nice atmosphere. There's like tables and chairs all over the place. And a little walled compound with like palm trees and stuff. So it's a really nice vibe here. I think we can spend a couple of days and really, yeah, it's nice. And I'm excited for tomorrow morning because check out this. I mean, how nice is that, hey? To do your business and watch the sun at the same time. I think this is luxury. Yeah, an open air shower. That'll be really refreshing. That's nice. It's really nice to have arrived here in the capital of Mauritania and be able to relax here for a couple of days. Yeah, also we have to figure out some things sort of some things for our border crossing to Senegal which we're gonna do the day after tomorrow. So we have to prepare ourselves a little bit. Yeah, I'm excited. It's awesome. So that's it from us today. We hope you enjoyed the episode. If so, please give us a thumbs up. Subscribe to the channel. Share the video with your friends and family. We will see you next time. That's so cool. So we went to go and get cash just around the corner from our hostel where we're staying and we got cash out which was fine and then we went to the bank to try to exchange money but they said they didn't exchange money and then this guy half-ed he said, oh, I know a place where you can exchange money. How much would it cost for a taxi? He said, no, I'm gonna take you there in my car. So he took us there in his car. We exchanged the money and then after we said, oh, we want to get some groceries and he was like, I'm gonna drive you to the grocery place and then we drove us over to the supermarket and we got our shopping for the next few days and then after he's like, okay, where are you staying? I'll drop you off where you're staying. We were like, wow, that's super kind and that's awesome. Thank you so much. We feel very welcome already in the workshop.