Bonjour, est ce que quelqu'un a des infos récentes sur les conditions de déplacements entre Bordj Moktar et la région de Tessalit ? Est-ce la seule piste ? Que me conseillez vous pour remplir le formulaire du visa ? Indiquer la région de Gao comme point d'entrée ou donner le nom du village le plus proche de la frontière (je me suis fait jeter par une malienne de l'ambassade au téléphone) ?
La situation est stable côté touareg, mais la zone reste néanmoins fortement déconseillée point de vue sécurité ! Entre les voyous, les terroristes d'El Qaida, etc.... careste très chaud!
N'oublies pas ton visa por l'Algérie, sauf si tu es de nationalité algérienne... en pus si tu as un passeport étranger, tu ne pourras pas circuler librement au Sahara...
LILI
Il n'y a personne qui soit née sous une mauvaise étoile, il n'y a que des gens qui ne savent pas lire le ciel. (Dalaï Lama)
mais rien ni personne ne vient à bout de ceux qui défendent une cause juste... (Mano Dayak)
Je vous déconseille fortement de traverser le Sahara dans votre véhicule personnel ! A moins que vous ne souhaitiez alimenter la rubrique prise d'otage des quotidiens. Sauf si vous êtes black, évidemment ou que vous partiez en convoi avec des commerçants qui font la traversée (surtout pas des militaires !) qui sont la cible des bandes armées. Dans un cas comme dans l'autre, c'est à vos risques et périls. Informez-vous sur la situation au Sahara, c'est une zone rouge depuis de nombreuses années déjà......
moi je dirais Tessalit puisque c'est le point d'entrée de la piste, Gao est encore à 500km suivant que tu passe par Kidal ou pas, est tu sur d'avoir un visa pour traverser l'Algérie ? car le sud Saharien n'est pas trés sécurisé, tien moi au courant de tes démarches si tu peux, car moi je dois aller sur Adiel'hoc en début d'année
De quoi tu parles exactement ? Le Sahara couvrant 4/5ème de l'Algérie, il faudrait être plus précis.... Entre Alger et Tamanrasset il y a près de 2200 km.... Déjà on circule librement (bus, taxis, voitures perso, camions, ...) sur les routes goudronnées.... il y a qques barrages où il faut évidemment signalé sa destination et avoir un algérien ou guide avec soi en véhicule perso pour éviter que le visiteur ne s'aventure pas dans les dunes...
Depuis quand faut-il être "black" pour circuler tranquillement ? C'est nouveau !!! Comme si tous les Sahariens étaient issus de tribus "noirs".... Il y a des touaregs blancs, noirs.... comme d'autres tribus... ex. les Chaambas sont blancs et c'est un peuple saharien !
Il n'y a plus de convois, sauf pour les militaires et certaines délégations officielles....
Je vis au Sahara, je suis une femme "blanche" 😉 et je circule toute seule au Sahara... la dernière fois c'était 950 km entre El Golea et Béchar.... avec ma voiture immatriculée en France.... Idem pour le trajet El Golea/Tam !!!!
Alors STP fais attention à ce que tu écris !
LILI
Il n'y a personne qui soit née sous une mauvaise étoile, il n'y a que des gens qui ne savent pas lire le ciel. (Dalaï Lama)
mais rien ni personne ne vient à bout de ceux qui défendent une cause juste... (Mano Dayak)
IL ME SEMBLE QUE TU PARLAIS DE DESCENDRE AU MALI OU ME SERAIS-JE TROMPER ???? Donc Je te parle du Sahara côté Mali bien sûr, donc Tessalit, Kidal, Gao est-ce en Algérie ??????
J'habite Tombouctou et il y a bien longtemps que nous déconseillons aux touristes de s'aventurer dans le Sahara en direction de l'Algérie. Certains l'ont quand même fait, des autrichiens, suisses, allemands, plus malins que les autres. As-tu lu les infos à leur sujet ? Je n'invente rien, hélas.
Se balader quand on est blanc dans le désert en tant que touriste en 4X4, c'est de la provoc pour les bandits.
Précisions : ceux qui "passent" sans problème (car ils ne sont pas des dollars ambulants) se sont effectivement les locaux ce qui englobe les touaregs, les maures, les algériens, les maliens etc etc....tout le monde l'a compris.
Je sais bien qu'en Algérie il n'y a vraiment aucun problème, n'est-ce pas, amis du forum ?
Bonne chance à toi.
bonjour ,
il faut que tu doit savoir que l'affaire des enlevements des tourists c'etais en 2003 , a notre jour , bcoup des raide organiser dans notre sahara , erg oriantal et exidantal , les tassili hoggar et ajjer , pas broblem pour tout lemonde , europeenes de yeux vert ou bleu , avec des voiture 4x4 dernier generation , toyota , land rover ou autre ,
avant hier un raide de plus de 20 voiture etais a tamanrasset , en retour vers la tinisie ,
alors pas de probleme pour tout voyage en 4x4 dans le sahara d'algerie ou en traverse pour le mali ,
bon voyage
lakhdar
De quoi tu parles exactement ? Le Sahara couvrant 4/5ème de l'Algérie, il faudrait être plus précis.... Entre Alger et Tamanrasset il y a près de 2200 km.... Déjà on circule librement (bus, taxis, voitures perso, camions, ...) sur les routes goudronnées.... il y a qques barrages où il faut évidemment signalé sa destination et avoir un algérien ou guide avec soi en véhicule perso pour éviter que le visiteur ne s'aventure pas dans les dunes...
Depuis quand faut-il être "black" pour circuler tranquillement ? C'est nouveau !!! Comme si tous les Sahariens étaient issus de tribus "noirs".... Il y a des touaregs blancs, noirs.... comme d'autres tribus... ex. les Chaambas sont blancs et c'est un peuple saharien !
Il n'y a plus de convois, sauf pour les militaires et certaines délégations officielles....
Je vis au Sahara, je suis une femme "blanche" 😉 et je circule toute seule au Sahara... la dernière fois c'était 950 km entre El Golea et Béchar.... avec ma voiture immatriculée en France.... Idem pour le trajet El Golea/Tam !!!!
Je suis un homme de 60 ans, "open minded", libre, non marié (un grand garçon de 21 ans) et retraité
Du 25 novembre au 10 décembre environ, je vais convoyer un camion humanitaire de Barcelone à Bamako, via Tanger, Fes, Dakhla et Nouakchott et je compte profiter de ce voyage pour m'arrêter au Mali quelques semaines de plus et rentrer par mes propres moyens (terrestres et/ou maritimes) en métrople en janvier ou février 2010.
Je recherche des personnes expatriées à Bamako (pou le Mali) ou à Dakar (Sénégal) ou dans d'autres capitales de l'Afrique de l'Ouest pouvant, soit m'aiguiller sur des hébergements pas chers, soit me recevoir (je règle ma pension honnêtement), soit me faire connaître des personnes dans le même cas que moi (globetrotteuses et globetrotteurs) et bien sûr et surtout "m'immerger", le plus possible dans les cultures locales et rencontrer des éducateurs (travail auprès de jeunes écoliers, notamment) et m'imprégner de ces pays d'Afrique qui m'attirent tant !
Avant de lire les échanges à fleurets à peine mouchetés de ce forum concernant la traversée de l'Algérie, j'avais fait le projet de rentrer du Mali en France, via le Sahara Algérien et profiter aussi d'être en contact avec ces peuples sahariens dont la culture m'attire tant !
C'est vrai qu'après avoir lu les noms d'oiseaux dont certains s'affublent sur VFC et qui ne font pas plus avancer le sujet (soit dit en passant), je ne sais plus si je peux rentrer en France par la voie terrestre (Mali-Algérie) et prendre un bateau d'Alger à Marseille, ou si je dois passer par la Mauritanie, l'ex-Sahara espagnol et le Maroc et l'Espagne (voie terrestre également).
J'espère que je ne vais pas m'attirer les foudres de certains écrivain(e)s de ce forum et me faire traiter d'autres noms d'oiseaux, mais si certaines et certains pouvaient me donner des tuyaux pour le passage du Mali en Algérie et la traversée de l'Algérie aussi (villes, adresses, compagnies de 4 x 4 sûres ...) je leur serais extrêmement reconnaissant !
Vous pouvez m'écrire directement sur mon mail : or2707@hotmail.fr si vous voulez, bien sûr !
Amicalement 😉
A bientôt de vos nouvelles, et par avance, je vous envoie mes sincères remerciements.
Salut, BBJMoktar-Tessalit c'est la seule piste. Faut pas se tromper je me suis perdu un jour complet avant de me faire accompagner par un jeune touareg. Une journée de bonheur dans une nature exquise. C'était en 2006. Les formalités se font à Tessalit. Et il te faut le visa obligatoirement, impossible à prendre à la frontière ou à Tessalit(du moins je me suis fait recaler à la frontière du pays Dogon au Burkina en 2007).
Faut bien se renseigner sur la stabilité entre les militaires et les rebelles touaregs. Je ne sais pas si ça c'est calmé là-haut mais en début d'année c'était encore chaud.
A l'ambassade tu donnes n'importe quel point d'entrée mais pas Tessalit, non.
Par contre Nioro-du-Sahel, c'est pas mal.
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Est-ce que certains d'entre vous ont déjà fait une demande de visa au consulat de Paris avec un aller-simple pour le Mali? Est-ce que ça pose problème? merci
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I’m writing to ask for some info—I’ve heard that you **must** have travel insurance to land in Zanzibar.
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Some websites say the passport must be valid for 3 months at the time of entry.
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It's an individual family trip.
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We’ll soon be moving to Madagascar long-term.
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Has anyone here been in this situation recently?
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Did Chinese authorities require proof upon arrival?
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She plans to return to France on July 18th. According to the European Commission’s Schengen calculator, this new stay “may be authorized for a maximum of 90 days.” That’s not very clear ("may be," "for a maximum of").
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My partner wants to return to France for a 90-day period starting on July 18th. Is this possible?
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1) The first day she spent in the Schengen Area was January 21st. That day will drop out of the calculation 180 days later, on July 20th.
From July 20th, she’ll get back 1 day of possible stay; on July 22nd, 2 days; and so on. All the days from her previous stay (January 21st–April 16th) need to be outside the 180-day rolling window.
The last day of her stay was April 16th. Looking 180 days ahead, that brings us to October 13th. From that date, she’ll be able to return for a full 90 days.
2) The number of allowed days is calculated for each day of the new stay. In other words: the 180-day window is recalculated every day, not fixed at the entry date.
If she re-enters France on July 18th, she’ll only have a “credit” of 4 days. But with each day of her new stay, one day from the previous stay (January–April) will drop out of the calculation. The rolling window allows her to “replace” days from the previous stay with those of the new stay, without ever exceeding 90 days in any 180-day period.
In this case, my partner could stay in France for 90 days starting on July 18th.
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Hello,
We’re planning to travel to Indonesia (Sulawesi with family) next July and August for a stay longer than a month (about 6 weeks).
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Hello, HAPPY NEW YEAR 2026!
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