 Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry. Okay, we're gonna just quickly pick this up. 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. Around the world trip. We're here outside a cafe somewhere down the coast. We're about two hours from the border of Mauritania and we can see the ocean just over there. We've got Bumblebee just behind us and we set up our tent last night just in the corner behind this wall to protect us from the wind. It was very, very windy. It was windy and sandy night. Our tent was full with sand. It was a lot of traffic going on here as well because this is pretty much the only stop for trucks where they can rest and visit the cafe. So there was a lot of activity going on in the night but it's really cute because the guys here from the cafe, they gave us yesterday night some cookies and also this morning they came out and they gave us some milk and some water and it's so nice. You know we feel really welcome here and thank you so much guys. It's amazing. Yeah and also a trucker coming from Mali also brought us a mango and was just like here's a mango for you guys. Look mango the Mali. So he actually brought this mango from Mali and now we get to eat it. Yeah it's beautiful. So let me show you guys where we're heading today. So we are really, really, really down here at the bottom of Morocco and we are going to be continuing our way as always down the N1 heading south but today crossing the border into Mauritania to reach the city of Nualibu. So the day is finally here after more than five weeks here in Morocco. Our Moroccan adventure is coming to an end and our Mauritanian adventure is just about to begin so I'm super excited to cross over the border and check out a whole new country. It's amazing but super sad at the same time as well because we felt really welcome here in Morocco and we loved it so much. I really had no idea how amazing this country is. Yeah it's been absolutely unbelievable to explore this country and I feel like we really got around a lot of different regions and saw a lot of different landscapes. It's just yeah it's been incredible. Please, please, please guys before you continue watching hit the subscribe button because we really need more subscribers. Just like that, just that. So we have about a hundred miles to the border to Mauritania and then another 40 miles to Nualibu but we haven't checked out where we're going to sleep tonight so this is something we have to figure out on the way. It's already nine o'clock so better hit the road let's go. All right last day in Morocco Is it time to hit the road? No we have to go back do everything again. Bye bye guys. Found the tarmac. Yeah those guys were super nice at the cafe. I mean when we arrived and they gave us a tea well we asked them for a tea and then when we wanted to pay them for the tea they were like no no no no no the tea's for you. We're like well is this how like how could you guys make any money? But I mean it's very nice and we really appreciate it. Yeah thank you so much guys. It's a beautiful day today. It's just 23 degrees. Yeah and one of the clearest days that we've had so far I mean I can actually see blue sky it's uh it's very rare we've had it mostly very incredibly dusty and grey for such a long time. Yeah. So just look at this endless blue up here wow. Yeah wow. Cool. Yeah what a crazy cafe sitting there in the middle of absolutely nowhere. Yeah. 100 miles from the border more than 100 miles from Dachla that's a it's a crazy place to be. Yeah definitely a unique place. Yeah. But yeah I guess because a lot of people taking the route here they have always nice company always people passing by saying hello they meet interesting people so I think they are never really bored. No no they they're not alone out here they're not alone. Even this morning we've seen like 10 people coming and going yeah lots of salam aleikum salam salam and they're coming from all over the place going on all different ways into Africa or up into Morocco it's really really cool. So yeah let's see how the next border how it's going if it will be easy or difficult we have no idea. Yep every border crossing is unique and special in its own way. Yes. And uh you're always at the mercy of whatever needs to be done needs to be done. Yeah but it doesn't matter how many border crossings you do it's always the feeling like ah let's hope everything goes well. Yeah exactly you always hope that it's going to be smooth and easy so we'll see how it goes. Most of the time it is smooth and easy. Yeah I mean it's only 9.30 now it's only about an hour and a half until we'll actually reach the border so we'll be early enough that we'll be able to sort out everything we need to sort out and hopefully we'll make our way into new adibu where we can take a few days of rest after countless miles on the road over the past week so it'll be good to take a couple of days off into adibu rest and get to experience a brand new country. And catch up with some editing. I can't wait for that. So I've got the cruise control set to 60 miles an hour a nice easy speed so uh yeah let's cruise our way down to Mauritania. The last group of Moroccan camels for us. Camel party. There they are. Look at this one right next to the road hello never gets old hey. Nice very cool. Bye guys have a nice day. Yeah I do wonder how their owners ever find them to be honest. No idea. I mean they could literally go anywhere they wanted. Yeah I guess they just have to decide oh yeah I would like my camels now and then they just have to drive for like two days to look around for them. Yeah so if you know how they find their camels please please let us know. We've reached a small cluster of houses in the desert called Birgandus and there's a petrol station here which is good because we have only about 57 miles left in the tank. Oh I think it's a police control here. Ah yes it is. Okay should we stop filming? Yeah. We're just stopping for a last refuel for the bike and for us before we head over to the border it's uh something like around 50 miles from here so we're basically gonna do a straight shot from here to the border and cross over. Very exciting now. So we're just leaving this little town here in the middle of nowhere. We talked to one guy and he said like pretty much no one is living here just a really few people everyone else is just here for work staying here for like one or two months and then they're leaving back where they where they normally live and then yeah. I think these are pretty much the last buildings coming up and then back out into the nothingness. Crazy place. The bread we bought the circular bread called Hobbs cost one dirham so that's like 10 cents for the bread so it's not a very expensive place. That was pretty good price. We filled up some petrol and now we have about 70 dirham left so in the next hour we will try to spend our last dirham. There's one more town coming up called Gergrat and that's pretty much the last place where we can spend that money so we'll I guess we'll just see what we can find over there. Oh look at the sand dune just over there. Wow they are look impressive. Oh massive. And a totally different color to the dunes that we saw in Merzuga which were like a dark orange and these dunes are like very very light colored. They're installing here on the side of the road new electricity lines and some camels in the background as well. Nice. Got a bit of sand on the road as well. Have to be careful of that. Oh yeah you can see here that the sand is covering quite a large portion of the road. Attention attention. Still enough of a gap at the moment for me to get through. Yes. You can just about see in the background where the massive dunes start and probably stretch on for hundreds of miles after that. So the place Gergrat I thought it would be something but it turned out to just be a military base just here but we looked on the map and there is one more place to spend our money which is a petrol station just before the border. So we're going to head to that petrol station see if there's anything to buy otherwise we'll just put some more fuel in the bike and then we'll be on our way to the border. Yeah and also I saw an old sign on the side of the road saying danger mines. I'm not sure if that's still relevant but I definitely heard back in the past when people were traveling this road that there is a big danger of land mines if you come off of the road and head into the desert in either direction. But whether or not that's still the case today I don't know. I haven't seen I've just seen one old sign that said danger mines. I haven't seen any other sign warning us of that. I can see the petrol station emerging from the desert up ahead and then I think the borders are just a couple of miles after that. Oh yeah this is where we need to be then we can decide to buy something there and fill the rest up with fuel. Okay we've managed to spend every last dirham that we had. We bought some bread we bought some eggs we bought some red bull we filled up a little bit more fuel and now we have to wait. Oh no I don't know if we can actually just bypass all the trucks. I don't know. I can see the border right there yes I don't think it's very far away but well that was a long drive from the petrol station wasn't it? No I didn't realize that. Well should we put the parasol up? I think so. Yeah maybe it's yeah let's put the parasol up. Okay one trucker just walked up to us and told us that the line is just for trucks just for coming on. He said he said we can just go straight up to the border so we'll just ride straight to the border I guess. Okay oh all the trucks they have to wait. Temperature at the moment the bike is recording 34 degrees so it's pretty hot at the moment and we're not moving very fast. Okay this might be the point for us to turn off the cameras. Okay so we've just gotten outside of the Moroccan side of the border but I'll tell you more about the process in a minute because we're just crossing no man's land at the moment. This is a small area of land between Morocco and Mauritania which is neither Morocco or Mauritania because we've actually been stamped out. Yeah but it was quite emotional to say goodbye to Morocco now because we spent so so many days here and there was kind of a connection you know between the Moroccans and us and it was like you know it was really nice. Yeah yeah we felt really welcome here and absolutely they were nice from the beginning to the end right even the customs guys laughing and it was not like a tense or anything they were really nice really nice really cool people. If you were to camp like here you would be either in Morocco or Mauritania you would just be there on your own crazy no yeah it's quite cool that is quite cool okay it looks like this might be coming up to the border okay yeah I'm going to turn off the camera again and then we'll see how we get on oh sorry sorry sorry sorry mother I didn't see anything about that I didn't see anything about that sorry okay we're going to just quickly pick this up okay we're in my area okay I'm not sure if the audio was working before but we are here we have just entered Mauritania we are inside Mauritania we passed by all the controls passed by everything and we are here on our way to Nuitibu and it feels amazing to have got past that process because that was a bit of a crazy process on the Mauritanian side oh my god it was hectic I'm going to go through the details of everything we did on the Moroccan side and then on the Mauritanian side but first we're just going to drive to Nuitibu we're going to get over there we're going to get to an accommodation we're going to unpack our stuff relax and then we can go through the whole process and explain everything I just didn't expect the road to become that bad that quickly we just exited Morocco no man's land instantly it was oh gravel and sand and it was so so bad yeah they sort of looked at us like and you're going to go into all the way through Mauritania like this you know like yeah sure you'll go all the way through Mauritania you fell in the first hundred meters oh my god crazy stuff I mean as soon as we passed through the Mauritanian border control and hit the main road it was just a bank of sand covering the whole road instantly that was the first thing that we started with I mean what a way to start the country hey anyway we'll drive now to Nuitibu to our accommodation and then we'll explain the whole process after and it's awesome because just next to us here is the famous Mauritanian railway that takes the iron ore from inland Mauritania to the coast at Nuitibu and that is just next to us here and if we see one of those trains that'd be awesome but this is oh hold on I'm going to turn this off there's a guard look we can see the coast so Nuitibu sits out on a spit so this is the inside and the outside coast to the Atlantic is just over there but yeah that checkpoint this time they asked us not for the passport but for a paper copy of the passport so luckily I had already made like 10 copies of each of our passports in the back but it really surprised me that he wanted that that's the first time from all the checkpoints we had in Morocco this is the first time we actually had to give them the piece of paper to keep so but this might I think there's another one okay all right okay so another checkpoint in as many minutes and we had to give again a paper copy of the passport to him and then they were really insistent on knowing exactly where we were staying tonight so we told them Villa Maguela to the accommodation that we haven't booked so we're going to go over there and see if they have a room for us good evening guys we arrived happy and alive at our place here in Nuitibu yeah come and have a look at this amazing view so this was our room and we head outside got them doggies here hello where's this look at this view look streaks in the water this is loads of little fish little baby fish it's like a fish nursery here okay we'll go back to the room that's really nice to just be in a room without the wind for the first time in many days yeah this place here Villa Maguela is super nice I'm so glad that we found this place 15 euros a night as well so really not a bad price so I think we're definitely gonna chill out here for quite a few many days and have a relaxation after about a thousand miles of windy sandy coastline and then a border crossing which we have to talk about now what we had to do and all the stages of the border crossing of course the first step was to exit Morocco at first they stamped our passports out then we continued with the bike a little bit further and then we had to give them the temporary import permit that we had got in Tangier on the way in admission temporea so they could double check that that was all fine and we were within that time and everything was good with that we gave them the vehicle documents the v5c the ownership document and they went off and did some stuff and came back and that was all fine we had a dog sniffing the bike we didn't even have to show anything in the bike no it was all good yeah they were just like goodbye goodbye guys yeah exactly we're like oh goodbye Morocco they stamped the temporary import permit and then we basically had to continue and then give that stamps temporary import permit to the last person that which was the gendarmerie the police and they verified everything and then we were out in no man's land so that was quite easy didn't take more than about half an hour yeah yeah it was quite easier and then of course we fell over in no man's land oh sorry sorry sorry they got helped up by the moroccan military but that's a different thing but then on the morotanian side things went a little bit crazy we arrived there and were immediately swamped by tons of people around us who were basically saying give me a passport give me a passport passports please but none of them were wearing any official uniform they were all just random people and there was loads of them and they were where are you from where are you from oh where are you going where are you going give me the passports we do this we do that and we knew that it was like okay we can't give our passports to these guys because this is like not the official process but it turns out these guys were all fixers and they were just basically trying to get us to give them the passports so that they could kind of do all the process for us and when we give them some money at the end but we didn't really feel like we needed fixers we felt like we could handle this process by ourselves so then we had to work out what to do and it went in four stages so stage one we took our passports to the first little office on the left logged us in on the information so that part was fine and easy and they just wanted to verify the passports at the second step you get your visa so you have to go in a little office they take your fingerprints and then you pay them 55 euro and you get your visa which is a quite funny visa i show you so you end up with with the visa looking like that so you get like a whole sticker i think that's quite cool but in between they said they had some network issues so this was already about maybe one hour and one hour one hour and a half in just to get those two visas but we got them so that was all good then stage three is customs where we had to get the passvant or the temporary import permit for the bike which is this document submission for authorization circular de vehicle étranger so i don't know the translation but it's basically a 10 day allowance for the bike to be in moritania that was 10 euro so that was not very expensive at all so that was perfectly fine and then finally when you got your visa you check they checked your passports you've got this document we can drive to the final point which again just like the moroccan side is the gendarmory the police station where you have to show again your passport and as well the the v5c the original vehicle document exactly and then they ask you as well where you're going and where you're gonna stay your first night so i had to give this information to them and then they were happy with it actually said okay that's fine and off you go bon voyage and in front of you is just sand for the first 50 meters is just sand there's no road at all so we almost fell off again just trying to get out of there but yeah it was a really really hectic border crossing it was hot we had our full gear on the whole time we were walking around everyone tried to talk to us and to get some money out of us and it's like it was just really really hectic and i was super happy when they actually said okay bon voyage guy and cheers the border guards were really really friendly and really cool i was really enjoying to talk to them so that was nice yeah they even wrote morotania on our box so the whole process took about three three and a half hours and we are super super happy to have arrived here where we can chill out and just relax a little bit make a plan as well what we want to see where we want to go further on and yeah it's really nice i'm really happy yeah and anyway that's it from us today so 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