 Oh my god, our first wildlife war-togs in front! Hi, I'm Lavi and this is Olli. We are attempting a new Guinness World Record to become the youngest pair to circumnavigate the globe by motorcycle. After riding 3000 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 83 on our round-the-world trip. We are here in the capital of Mauritania, Nuakshart, in this hostel, Lothrie scale. And you might see up there the tent, we were sleeping in one of those tents. A Bedouin tent on the roof, how cool is that? Very good idea. We spent the last couple of days here, did some editing work, some things to sort out because today it's a very exciting day. Yeah, because today we are going to be heading for another border, so let me show you where we're heading today. So we are here in Nuakshart, the capital of Mauritania and today we are going to be making our way further down Mauritania to reach the border of Senegal at the Senegal river, but not the Rosso border, this little border down here called Diama. That's right, we're heading for country number six on our round-the-world trip, Senegal. So before you continue watching, please guys hit the subscribe button because we really need more subscribers, thanks so much. Then we have about 160 miles today and it's just 7.45, so better hit the road, let's go. Goodbye, let's go, let's head out, oh yes, well here we are in Nuakshart, in Mauritania. Adventure routing in Mauritania. Yeah, it looks like here in town just the main main streets are paved and most of the back streets where all the houses are and the accommodation, these are all like sort of a mix of dirt and sand roads, but they're not too bad. So we have to turn to the left here. Okay, beautiful. So we're heading first out to a place called Port de Peche. We thought before we left Nuakshart we needed to at least see the beach area, the fishing area with all the beautiful boats, so we thought we'd just ride down there now and check that out. Unfortunately, the Garmin doesn't work in Mauritania, it's not able to route us, so we're doing it with the good old-fashioned Google Maps. So the whole city is on the coast, the coast is only a couple of miles up ahead, so we'll ride over to the coast, check that out before making our way south. Should we fill our petrol here? Is this a petrol station? Oh, we can. Okay, let's have a check. But there's a bit of a queue. Should we well just join the queue, hey? Yeah. So here the fuel that we need, unleaded fuel, is called essence. So when you go to the petrol station you ask for essence, petit peu essence s'il vous plaît. Fueled up and ready to go, how much do we pay? 650, 650 is about 15 euro. 15 euro, okay. I think I filled up maybe even 15 litres just then, that's like three quarters of the tank. Yeah. So that makes the price maybe about 1 euro per litre. Yeah, not a bad deal here. Yeah, that's not too bad. Look, this petrol station is empty here. Maybe they run out of diesel. I don't know if we can go here already. Ah yeah, I think we can. Looks like we are getting close because there's a lot of fish, a lot of fish factories, fish places. Ah, so is this one way or not? I don't know. There's a fella going our way. I'm going to do a U.E. Okay. Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye. That's fine. Okay. So no, that's not where we're headed. Okay, so go to the right here. Yeah. So it's not this one, the next one to the right. No, karaoke. But again, it looks like a sort of closed place that we can't really go into. But let's see. No, let's see. Okay. Here, normally. Okay. Apparently. But let me see. Let me just pause for a minute. Okay, that wasn't so hard. We just actually just asked the guards at the front, hey, can we come inside and have a look? And they were like, well, why not? So I think the ocean front is just in front. So we'll just go to the end of this road and then we'll just have a little look. Look at all these. You okay? You okay? No, no. Sorry. Sorry. I couldn't stop. It wasn't stopping. Strange, no? Is it possible? I'm tired. Merci. 3, 2, 1, go. Merci. Parfait. Merci. Thank you. Thanks. No, no, no, no. No, it's okay. Yes. You had a problem. No, no, it's okay. No, it's okay. What kind of alcohol? German. German? Yes. English. English? Yes. Okay, that's fine. I'll just walk it. Okay, we're really deep here. I'm going to have to... I'm just going to walk it. It's no problem. It's a bit easier here. Whoa! Here we are. Oh, yes. Ah, we made it. Not bad, hey? So here's the fishing port and you can see. Look at how many boats there are. That's insane. Wow. I'm just going to have a little walk down. Whoa, look at this. Wow, look at this crazy place. Oh my god. Look, this boat is full of water and all these people are trying to bring it in. Whoa. I mean, that must be like hundreds of litres of water in there. That's insane. Oh my god, this place. Wow. Look at the amount of boats out here. Oh my god. Wow. And they're all pretty big boats as well. Look at the size of this boat right here. Wow, this is a busy, busy place with a lot of activity. Wow. Look at all the colours. Look at the paintings of the boat. I think this one hasn't gone in the ocean for a while. But look at the colours here at the front. Really cool. Fish scales all over the floor and everything smells like fish. Where are you? Are you over there? Hello. There she is. Bumblebee and Lavie. Safe and sound in Port de Peche. Wow, that place is crazy. I think you definitely got to go have a look. How do you call yourself? I'm Mokhtar. Mokhtar. Mokhtar. I'm from Enchanté, I'm from Pella Vigna. Ah, Oli. Oli. I'm from Mauritania, Montenegro and then from Senegal and then from Brazil. Right, Brazil. Yes, yes. For my GPS, that's how you drive. There's a GPS. GPS. Yes, we're here. Yes, just over there. Here at the door. That went a little bit better than in Nui Dibu when we were trying to look at the port over there. At least this time they led us in to actually have a look. And okay, the ride to the beach was a bit hairy and we did fall over for like the 14th time, I think. Oh my god. Yeah, it's not easy in the sand and it's not flat as well. So it's like uphill sand, downhill sand, more sand, less sand. It's really, really difficult. Anyway, I mean, it was a very soft fall in the sand. Yes, it was. It was. And we had some help to pick up Bumblebee from some really friendly workers over there. Plenty of strong local guys. But he was also surprised as well how heavy the bike is and he couldn't believe it. He was just like, what? What? Exactly. Oh man. But you know, anyway, we got to see the port de Peche, which is super cool because like I said in Nui Dibu, we didn't have the chance to see the port, the fishing port there. So to see the fishing port, at least here in the Waxshad, get a little glimpse of the local fishing life. That's really cool. Yeah, that is cool. Yes, as you can see here, it's really interesting because they're just starting to build up this area here. Here actually not too many buildings at the moment, but maybe like in 10 years, it will be probably changed a lot. Absolutely. I mean, look at the Waxshad as a city. I mean, in the 1970s, there was about 15, 20,000 people living here. It was nothing more than a medium-sized fishing village. And then, because of desertification and drought, so many people were just moving in to this area from all around. And now, 1.2 million people, a quarter of the population of Mauritania, live here in the capital. And this is just happening in the last 50 years. That's absolutely mind-blowing. So now, we're going to follow this coast road. We're right next to the beach here. We're following this road, and then we should join back up with the main highway that heads south out of Waxshad. And that should take us towards the border to Senegal. Senegal, we are coming. Yeah. So we are back out in the desert. We have officially left the capital and are on our way south. But the desert is not as desolate as it was between Nuitibu and Waxshad. Because look, there are pretty much buildings along the road, nearly everywhere. And some of them, like this one, painted in some nice pretty bright colors. There's a green one there and a blue one over there. Yeah, it looks actually very peaceful and nice here. Sand dunes and like so much nature around you. This is really cool. And we saw a lot of people as well with like camels and with their goats. There's a lot of people living their lives out here. It looks like that they need some water storage. So you see on the side of the road quite often like big, big water blathers. Yeah, basically like our water bladder, but I think they look like they're carrying like a thousand litres. Yeah, at least. But yeah, pretty much all the way along, even like just in the middle of the sand here, all the way along, just little hut after hut after hut. Yeah. Yeah, it's a busy strip of desert in the middle of nowhere. It is 11.15, still in the morning. And we are just having some bread and some cheese. We've got some almonds. And it's really cool here because there are actually quite a lot of trees in the bit between the wakshot and the border. It's really cool because here are trees and sand dunes as well. It's really nice because literally for the last one and a half thousand miles, we had no shade when we're stopping for lunch, just basically stopping on the side of the road. And the sun is never going away. And it's really, really hot. So it's beautiful to have that above us. Yes. Have a nice lunch. It's so nice. It's so nice. It's so nice to see a change of environment here. To see trees, to see greenery. Yeah, we saw some places that were full of of plants and flowers and palms. And it looked so nice, like little mini oasis. Yeah, it's just nice that it's not just windy and sandy. It's still plenty of sand. Don't get me wrong. But you've got a lot of trees and it's really refreshing. It's just really nice to see because we had a lot of deserts. A lot. So we're getting closer to the border of Senegal. But actually we're not taking the main border, which is if you continue down this road, you would reach a border called Rosso. And this is actually the main border between Senegal and Mauritania. But this is not the border for tourists to take. Apparently this border is crazy. They call it the armpit of the earth, a hellhole, and just not a nice experience to go through. Now the Diama border is a whole different world. The Diama border is a national park and it's further to the west of the Rosso border. And apparently it's much more chilled. It's in a much more quiet environment. It's on a sort of dirt road, no trucks, not so busy and just a much nicer place for us to cross the border. And the turnoff to head there to the west is coming up in a couple of miles. And then we'll be making our way towards that national park. Yeah, I'm super excited to see a national park. We hear there's a lot of wildlife going on, so I can't wait to see it. I don't know if you guys can see, but there is a load of monkeys over there. Whoa, monkeys there. Okay, let me see, let me see. Oh there they are running off down there. You can see them all all running in the bushes just about. But I think they're too small to see on the GoPro. Lots of shapes running all in different directions. They all just went for it. Wow, look how much bird life here is already here. Whoa, yeah, we've just taken the turnoff from the main road. And we're starting the peace or the dirt road section that's going to head towards this national park and the border to Senegal. I just saw a sign actually, the park, the national park is called the Diaoling National Park. We're just heading into there and yeah, it's so green and fertile here and just full of life. It's crazy here. Yeah, it's really, really cool. It's really nice to see. We already saw a couple of monkeys before we even got here and people say that there's war talks here as well. So I mean, yeah, it's just going to be really cool. As long as the dirt road stays reasonable, then this is going to be a really nice drive. Because we dropped the bike today already once. Yeah, how many more times for today? Yeah, the temperature is at the moment 34 degrees. It is quite hot. But we do have water to wet our t-shirts. We've already wet our t-shirts once today on the road. So I think we will stop in a minute wet our t-shirts again so that we can try and stay nice and cool. They say that this peace road is absolutely terrible when it's wet. But luckily for us it's not that wet. So at the moment it's all right. Yeah, at the moment it's nice. Yeah, a little bit bumpy but okay. That's hot water. We still got a bit more shower water left to go. So that'll be good for now. Okay, refreshed. Had a drink of water as well. Nice and wet t-shirts. Let's continue this dirt road. So this road is actually bordering the Senegal River, which is just here next to us. And actually this marks the border between Mauritania and Senegal. So pretty much Senegal is just on the other side of this river. Yeah, that's really really cool. Yeah, we're so close. Yeah. But we do have to ride along the border to actually get to the border crossing. We have to ride along. Can't cross here. Whoa. Nice. This must be a little side stream but look at that. Wow. That's crazy. That is crazy. Do you think we should try the road down there? If you like, we can. Yeah, I think so. Okay, we're going to try the little side road. It's not too bad. Hey, it's nice. It's really nice. What a nice end for Mauritania and beginning for Senegal. Yeah, look at this. No sand. There's no sand here. Yeah, wow. Oh my god. Yeah. That's crazy. Oh, look at this. Wow, nice. It's a bit of a lake there. Yeah, that's nice. Hello. Loads of cows around. Yeah, nice. We've just entered the Dialling National Park. Dialling National Park. Nice. Let the wilderness adventure begin. Oh my god. Our first wildlife. Warthogs in front. Our little warthog family. The mom with the two kids. Oh, we just saw the first warthogs. Yay. That's so, so cool. This is a safari now. It's amazing. Absolutely amazing. All right, let's keep our eyes peeled now because we are in warthog territory now. Oh, some more warthogs ahead. I did not expect to see so many warthogs around here. That's amazing. I mean, this is like the warthog national park. They need to rename it Warthog National Park. Yeah, it's absolutely incredible. I haven't seen warthogs in the wild. So it's really special for me to see them today for the first time. Look, look. Nice. Look at this. Beautiful. Another lake here. There's just so much water and with lots of water is lots of life. It's okay. There's a little bit like a muddy there, but I don't know. It's okay. Oh my god. Nice. Look, look, look. Warthogs right here. Oh, cool. Whoa. Look at them running along. Oh, that's so cute. Hello guys. Whoa. Look at them with their tails. It looks like they're remote controlled. Oh, beautiful little animals. They look so cheeky the way they run. Yes. They're like, oh, that's awesome. Wow. Wow. Look at all these birds. It's nice. Oh, they're all on the ground there. Be careful that you don't. Look, look, look. Warthog, warthog, warthog. Hello. Look at this. Whoa. Look at him go. This, this is like one of the most incredible places I've ever been. Look at this guy. Whoa. Oh my god. It's a big man. Hey, it's a big man. Oh, and there's a cow. Oh no. Oh, there's another one there. Yeah. But we've got to be super careful. Yes. Absolutely incredible. Really, really, really incredible. I mean, it's just, it's just so much life. It's just wonderful. Wonderful. Really wonderful. A donkeys. Donkeys. Donkeys and warthogs together. Look at that. Hey. Wow. Look at all these donkeys. Wow. It's so nice to see wild donkeys all like as wild as they can get. They're living a nice life here. That's amazing. Wow. I love seeing that. I love that. That's beautiful. Okay. Nice little stop. Off you go guys. Come on. Yeah, this grading on the road, which is sort of in the middle, is really shaking our bike apart. That's why I'm trying to stay on either one edge or the other, because otherwise we're like... Yeah, it's really shaking us around. Oh yeah. I'm not too worried about us, but I'm a little worried about our electronics. Yeah. Every part of the bike. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. We have to try to avoid that as much as possible. Yeah. I'll stay on this inside lane I think for now. Oh, yeah, yeah. After you guys, after you. So we hit some sand and now the bike is on the ground. Oh man.