Mauritania

After crossing into Mauritania we stopped in Nouadhibou where we visited a peninsula armed with our video camera - after playing around we were arrested and (having hidden all our money in our underwear) payed a small bribe to a slimey officer to get back to the truck. We then found a guide and travelled for 5 days throught the Sahara, crossing 60 miles of it on a beach at low tide (the only route through). Eventually we reached Nouakchott, relaxed on the beach watching the fishing boats and then drove inland down an amazing Japanese built road towards Nema. We planned to cross the border into Mali but some more dodgy customs officers decided to try and charge us $50 each for the pleasure of leaving Mauritania, on route to the border post we grabbed our passports off one of the soldiers ran back to the trucks and drove off into the desert towards Mali knowing full well that the border guards had no radio, no vehicle and no chance of catching us. Eventually we stopped at a village and realised we were in Mali.