 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 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. Welcome back to the channel. It's day number 80 on our around the world trip. We are here on the outskirts of Nuadibu, the second largest city in Mauritania and we are in a place called Villa Maguela, which is a nice little retreat hostel type place just right next to the ocean. Come and have a look at how close we are to the ocean. Look at that! Oh and there's a pormorant flying over just over here. How cool is that? And there's a little island, Pelikan, the ocean here. So we have spent the last few days here doing a little bit of editing, a little bit of relaxing after our long leg down the coast of western Sahara. We needed a bit of a break and now we've had that and we're refreshed and ready to continue the road south. So let me show you guys where we're heading today. Okay so we are all the way down here in Nuadibu in Mauritania. Today we are going to be heading into Nuadibu to have a little look around before making our way down south along this road to reach the very small town of Shammi, about halfway between Nuadibu and Nuakshot. So we thought that we wouldn't be able to make it all the way to Nuakshot. Today it's just a little bit too far and we can't really guarantee that the roads are going to be drivable, if there's going to be sand on the roads, potholes, things to slow us down. So we've gone for the halfway point and Shammi, this little town, is apparently a very new town only kind of popped up in the last 10 or 15 years. I think it's related to mining around the area but it should be just about big enough for us to find a place to stay. So before you continue watching please please please guys subscribe to our channel. We have about 140 miles which is 240 kilometers to go and it's already 930 so better hit the road let's go. Okay it's time to hit the road and head into a little exploration of Nuadibu. It's nice to be back on Bamba beer. I missed you. I don't know I kind of liked that little scooter actually. You know it was just okay it had no power whatsoever and when the wind blew you almost fell over but you know there was just a simplicity about it that I really liked. Yeah it was very charming. Yeah you know but Bumblebee is a machine. Yeah Bumblebee will take us around the world that's for sure. That's true that's true Bumblebee certainly capable of that. So today we're first going to be heading into Nuadibu, Mauritania's second largest city which we're currently on the outskirts of in a beautiful little spit that comes off just north of the city and this is a beautiful calm place. It was a really nice place to spend the last couple of days and we have been into Nuadibu a couple of times. When we went in with the scooter we managed to get ourselves some cash and a SIM card and I went in yesterday to get insurance for Bumblebee which was all good. I just got the insurance for our bike here in Nuadibu and we've written Suzuko. I say what is Suzuko? He says no no it doesn't matter don't worry it's fine. Is it fine? We'll see how Suzuko goes for our trip here in Mauritania. Managed to get the insurance to cover us for the whole time we're here and it only cost about 11 or 12 euro. It's really not that bad compared to what we paid in Morocco for our insurance there. So that's good so I managed to get all that sorted. So right now we're just going to go in check the place out and then we'll be hitting the road another 140 miles to Shammy. Welcome to Nuadibu the land of old Mercedes cars and just desert around you. Yeah so this is a bit of a crazy place to drive to be honest. Half these cars really look like they're on the verge of breaking down and half of them are smashed up pretty badly and at least 40 years old but you know somehow everything seems to work and the people seem to get around. But I tell you what I came out in the evening to get some pizza and that's when I found out that half of these cars don't have headlights and often they're just using their hazard lights and just putting them on constantly as they're sort of like I'm here I'm here but I still can't see anything. But yeah I tell you all good on Mercedes for creating a car that's so bloody strong. Absolutely absolutely I mean you can see it's still running. Yeah look Mercedes 1900 1900 you've got a few little Peugeots some Renault's around as well but yeah man that Mercedes car if you want to get a car that seems to never die get one of those. So the town or the city in Nuadibu has I think something like 100 150,000 people living here. Second largest city in Mauritania behind Noixot which I think has around a million people or a million something and Nuadibu is pretty much centered on this main road that we're taking now which is the Route National 2 the Route National 2 and so we're going to take this road all the way down through Nuadibu to the bottom and there should be a nice little boat yard with a lot of fishing boats that we can check out down there. And also we don't know if it still exists but there was this ship graveyard yes yes which is worth checking out. Yeah although a lot of people have told us that most of the ships that were there have actually fallen to pieces and like 10 15 years ago it was really cool to see but you know we'll still head down there and see if there are any wrecked ships left. Yeah those are pretty much the two most famous things to see in this in this city the fishing boat yard and the ship graveyard so we'll check those two out before hitting the road to Shammi. Okay so according to the map the port that we're looking for should be up ahead but the road has just finished with its tarmac so I'm not exactly sure but it's worth going ahead. I don't know. First of all is this the port yes it's like we are pretty close to be fair but I'm just not sure what's going to happen if we start going that way. I mean the other way would be we go I think we're going to have to do that here and then along and then check here. Okay let's do that so we'll go backwards to there yeah once we hit that street we go down once we hit this street we go this way okay okay so maybe at the end of this street we'll be there should be just right next to us. Looks like it's a bit of a checkpoint I'm just going to ask him okay the port artisanal this boat here this blue boat this is one of those boats that is in this port they're all like that okay but I need to ask this guy excuse me uh it's the port artisanal yes it's the port artisanal let's get off the road it's okay okay yeah let's turn the cameras off for a minute okay so now we're coming back from the port so we went to the guys we gave our passports and they said okay you can go and look at it but taking any photos or video is forbidden so we were like okay all right that's fine we'll go check it out anyway so we went to go check it out we got to the gate and the guy said unfortunately our french isn't good enough to really understand but something about authorization and blah blah blah and basically at the end of the day he wouldn't let us come through into the port hold on a minute just got to uh make my way through there we go oh mental um yeah basically the end of the day they wouldn't let us into the port to check out the boats so at least we tried but I think we'll have to move on to the next place which is the ship graveyard and see what's going on with that place so we'll head south out of the city and we'll see if there are any shipwrecks to be seen on the coast so we've reached the end of the road and there's another another checkpoint another port that we can't really cross so I'm just gonna walk over to the coast here okay no so then fella for saying I can't walk over there and check out the coast either so I guess that's to continue on our way hey so sightseeing site number two failure yeah we're just going to take this little road off now and just have a little look it looks like it goes next to the coast I can see that there's boats out in the bay but how many of them are shipwrecks I really don't know they call this area the ship graveyard of new adibu so it could very well be that these ships are decommissioned ships oh look here we go we've got a little bit of a view out over the bay here let's just stop here okay let's go to stop here I think that this is probably what they mean by the ship graveyard of new adibu I think that these boats are effectively shipwrecks or ships that are being decommissioned though I'm not a hundred percent sure they might just be normal boats is this really the way I came yeah I just realized look at the sign I have no idea but that was probably a quite a bad idea to go and check that out I think we should jump on and probably make a swift move away from new adibu okay so it turned out the one place that we went to stop and have a look at the boats had a huge sign that said dangerous dangerous for the public forbidden to be here and that's why there was a fellow walking over to us when we were over there so so that's that anyway I think that definitely concludes our sightseeing experience in new adibu yeah it's a little bit sad that I make it so difficult for us to see things but this is just what it is at the moment and maybe we have to come back at one point yeah perhaps on foot or with the taxi or something like that it would be easier to see the things but just as we are with this motorbike just can't seem to to get to where we want to get to anyway we've got quite a road to go we've still got about 140 miles to come off of this spits where new adibu sits and back onto the mainland of moratalia and then south until we get to shammy so uh yeah let's just hit the road hey yes let's hit the road okay we're heading on our way out of new adibu and a lot of people have woken up it looks like because it is massively busier than what it was when we came in look at this sea of old cars oh my goodness so we had to get some groceries as well and now we just got to fuel up and then we're pretty much good to go on the road but man it's hot and busy here I tell you now I'm definitely ready to get out on the open road back out into the into the nothingness after the everything here look how windy and sandy it is out here this is a pretty hostile environment to drive in I must admit and look sound blowing over the road we've got a strong wind coming from the coast oh my god it's just mental yeah it's super uncomfortable it's very not nice at all yeah at the moment we're still heading north in order to get off of this spit that new adibu sits on before we're hitting the mainland of moratania and so we're still traveling against the wind at the moment and it's terrible but hopefully after we turn around and start heading south we'll have the wind behind us and that'll be make for a much more comfortable ride yeah it's terrible like that you can see here up ahead they've got a digger trying to clear the sand and the car just broke down apparently as well yeah perhaps it did yeah you don't really want to break down here yeah that's not really fun to be there and something going wrong no way and i'm getting sand blowing in my helmet as well I think this first part of the ride is going to be pretty crazy yeah I think with the cars actually quite alright to ride on sand yeah not for us though not for us we did not want to be getting into that deep stuff on that side or that side no way oh they're trying to build something here but you can see everything is like it's it's newly covered completely by the sand dunes so that didn't work out very well no you can see that whatever you do out here the desert will just reclaim it yeah it's insane here insane another milestone completed hey 6000 baby 6000 miles that is actually officially 10 000 kilometers oh is it I think so look we've got another digger wow trying to good job dig away the desert good job good luck my friend good luck he's gonna need it wow yep and that last thousand that we've done has been pretty much this desert coast road all the way from the bottom of Morocco all the way down through to here that's basically been the last thousand miles looks like a bit of sand in the road coming up so we're going to take it quite easy here yeah we've got sand coverage it's okay yeah I don't think it's very deep no no just go through it uh-huh yeah just go go through it yeah I am I'm just taking it nice and easy yeah it's okay yeah yeah perfect yeah this highway never gives up hey yeah and it's really interesting because you can see sometimes here along this road on the right and on the left like little houses and chags and some trees we saw some goats some horses it's like it looks such like incredibly difficult place to live but somehow people are managing to even live along here it's absolutely incredible it's about 80 miles now until we reach the small town of Shabbi so let's hope that the sandy desert road is good to us just entered an area of road covered in potholes yeah this road's pretty broken up here and the thing is this road looks newer than the road we were just on but it's already completely fallen to pieces with some repairs here and there but man it's a bit of a challenge yeah it looked quite new at the beginning but we quickly realized that it was just it's just full of holes hey yeah but it looks quite nice with the black road and then the sand flying across it yeah it's pretty surreal hey yeah there's something hypnotizing about it and i'm so surprised to see so many of these old Mercedes actually making this crossing of the desert they are going like 500 kilometers across the desert in like a 50 year old german or french car that was never made to do this i mean i'm just really i'm really impressed with those cars we see a lot of people making that that journey from Nuwaksha to Nuiwadibu has a brave journey to making a car like that i must have been poor guys it was inevitable that we would see a few of those old Mercedes broken down hey yeah what is this town here i have no idea it's just a very small collection of concrete houses in the middle of nowhere yeah there's even like a little shop apparently there's a little ambulance or paramedic station there it's good that they have something like that and a mosque nice some of the buildings looking quite nice i wonder what the people are doing here really yeah me too they must be like workers or something oh that car does not look healthy no oh look at this bit that's smooth so we've had to stop the water on ourselves because it's about 38 degrees here now as we've come inland and it is super super super hot the wind is so hot so we're going to put a jug of water over us cool down a bit the wet t-shirt so we also had a bite to eat with some baguette and some cheese of course laughing cow cheese so we'll uh we'll hit the road for the last leg definitely been surprised by the heat here i must admit because we had so many nice cold days on the coast it was cool in the way the evil so you know we left this morning not really not really prepared for this massive amount of heat that's just hit us wow 38 degrees at the moment yeah it's really really really really hot and i can feel already my head and it's not very comfortable not at all we have been drinking drinking drinking but it's still apparently not enough okay it looks like we are coming in to our destination for today shami you can see there's quite a lot of activity going on already here wow yeah that's crazy wow very busy yeah yeah this is like a hot spot in the middle of the desert and the temperature has reached 40 degrees at the moment so it is not a cool day in shami at the moment should we check out this hotel lavie seems to have found a german so she's chained to or a guy from belgium apparently who speaks german so i'm sure she's going to work something out for us so lavie did make a deal with the fella there from belgium i haven't got his name actually yet he has a room we managed to get a price of 600 which is around 15 euro so that's not too bad it's the same price we were paying where we just were for the last couple of days and apparently he says there's air conditioning there which would be pretty crazy if it's working here look at this place oberge sahara nice some goats just jumping off the back of the trailer hello goat let me look the goats oh yes what's your name normally normally yes name it's peter oliva wow and here the first time i live eight years in in marocco and in marocco like here in arabic lander uh the people don't say pay okay pier it's beer beer under the people say oliva oliva well all right well my name is olie so nice to meet you another oliva the best people the best people two olivas out here in the desert i'm not sure about that whoa look at this yeah i can feel it it's working awesome so i think we have our room for the night it's not very extravagant but it has air conditioning and it will do so let's do it good even alive not really happy but alive yeah that heat absolutely killed us and especially killed lovey yeah i'm absolutely dead like i'm so so headache and i'm so thankful that we got an air condition so i just have to lay down and wait for my head to get better yeah yeah we really need a good rest after so many miles along that road in the heat definitely our bike recorded at the end over 40 degrees so i wanted to fill up bumblebee as well when we arrived in town but the fuel station is packed with cars queuing to get in like probably a queue of like 20 cars to get into this fuel station so i think we're going to try that one tomorrow morning instead and hope that it's better because probably this is the only place you can fuel up for many many miles we've got about 150 miles to do tomorrow so we better fuel up before we hit the road yeah 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