dantheman
Bah humbug
Hi, planning a birding trip to the region, as mentioned elsewhere. We're flying to Agadir on the 19th february for a week. We're actually planning on going down through Western Sahara and exploring some of the potential sites down there. We may even try to go into Mauretania (banc d'Auguin reserve), may post asking for info about that one seperately...
Have seen a couple of trip reports, (J Stratford, L Evans) the whole thing seems fine, the political/war situation has apparently settled right down, and the area has a lot of good birding potential.
Any further information/impressions/ sources of trip reports or birding info would be most welcome.
A couple of specific questions -
Apparently you have to inform the british embassy up in Rabat, but that's going the wrong way, so scrub that. Likely to be any probs at the border?
Fuel in Western Sahara - have read that unleaded petrol is hard to come by - anyone have any experience of this? Any idea of how much (ballpark figure) a jerrycan would cost (eg in Agadir/or down in Dhalkla?).
Land mines- under the impression these are all near the border with Mauretania. True??
Cricket Warbler - any source for calls/song to listen too/download on the internet?
That's all I can think of for now,
Thanks in advance, Dan :t:
Have seen a couple of trip reports, (J Stratford, L Evans) the whole thing seems fine, the political/war situation has apparently settled right down, and the area has a lot of good birding potential.
Any further information/impressions/ sources of trip reports or birding info would be most welcome.
A couple of specific questions -
Apparently you have to inform the british embassy up in Rabat, but that's going the wrong way, so scrub that. Likely to be any probs at the border?
Fuel in Western Sahara - have read that unleaded petrol is hard to come by - anyone have any experience of this? Any idea of how much (ballpark figure) a jerrycan would cost (eg in Agadir/or down in Dhalkla?).
Land mines- under the impression these are all near the border with Mauretania. True??
Cricket Warbler - any source for calls/song to listen too/download on the internet?
That's all I can think of for now,
Thanks in advance, Dan :t: