MAROCATLASGIB4X4 2012 SOLIDARITY RAID.

[Louis Balban]

THIS WILL BE OUR DIARY FOR THIS EVENT FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO FOLLOW.

ALL OF YOU PARTICIPATING IN THIS EVENT ARE WELCOME TO UPDATE AS WE GO ALONG.

[Alfred Balban]

We are now leaving from Merzouga to do the leyandary Dakar Rally tracks to Tagounite.

[Mariam Balban]

 HAVE A GOOD DAY!

[Alfred Balban]

Thanks Hoby,just reached Zagora now and had a shower will post our yesterdays adventure soon.

[Louis Balban]

MAROCATLASGIB4X4 ON ACTION!! ;)

[Marocatlasgib4x4 Club]

Nice footage of the action ;-)

[Marocatlasgib4x4 Club]

Getting used to drive on the dunes,sure had their fun here.

[Louis Balban]

 TODAY IS THE 9th OF MARCH. we been stop by spanish side of the border.they woulded let us through because of some papers.entre comilla because every year this group gose over and never had any kind of problem. we been two hours stop nearly loseing our ferry.when alfred was getting all this problem sorted. a kindly custom officer was crossing the border saw us there  he stoped and ask us what was the problem.this kindly officer off duty went and sorted our problem in less than five mins.just one blanc paper with all the drivers name regitretion numbers and explaning the stuff we had loaded thats all we needed.omg only that for two hours..whiles there i saw to big van spanish coming out of gib loaded de chataras.he just cross with out any problem.i just want to say that.. they do with us what ever they want.this hursasment against gibraltarians has to be stoped.good we are here at the hotel in TANGIERS. 2morrow we departch at 8:00AM from all of us thanx again...pics of the day!!!

[Callum Smith]

after experiencing problems with the car up in the track in merzouga, we found out we had burnt a brake caliper. Luckily we had tuggy with us to lend a hand with the mechanics but the car continued to struggle. We had to stay in the kasbah le touareg in merzouga and sort out the problem but all we ended up with was a car with no brakes :/. We finally decided to head down to zagora on the main road whilst the rest of the group took the Paris Dakar track. 150km from merzouga, the clutch gave up and tuggy had to tow us down the motorway with no electronics, brakes or engine (basically hauling dead meat). Luckily we saw a tow truck which kindly stopped and asked what the problem was. they were taking a dune buggy down to merzouga but said they'd come back up and collect us. tuggy towed us down to the small town of alnif where we made friends with a local fossil collector and where treated to a lunch of egg and chips. they managed to find us a hotel for the night called kasbah meteorite a couple of km out of town where we stayed the night. in the morning, we made our way to zagora whilst the car was already being fixed there. when we arrived in zagora, the car was being fixed and the guys their showed us our broken clutch which had snapped in 4 places. they're still sorting out the car now whilst we stay in a hotel across the road. 

[Louis Balban]

 TODAY IS THE 11th OF MARCH.last night we did camping up in the ZEDAR FORREST mountians 1740 mtrs high we had snow.we did a nice fire everyone enjoyed it.hey guys that was great.we all got up at five. We had breakfast. finished packing and cleaning all the surounding. At that time we had a suprise visit.our apes from gibraltar.from all of us thanks again..here some pics of the day!!

[Louis Balban]

FEW MORE PICS OF THE CEDAR FORREST MOUNTAINS ;)

[Marocatlasgib4x4 Club]

Hope this year we reach Midelt and don't need to camp in the forest,although I prefer it :-)

[Louis Balban]

TODAY IS THE 12th OF MARCH.we just arrive to the merzuga sahara.we been doing solidarity along the way seeing imazing views.know every one looking forward for tomorrow.we will do solidarity in the desert... todays pics..