Bordering on madness

Finally at the Mauritanian border, after much tooing and froing we got our vehicle and individual exit stamps and faced the 2k drive through no mans land to Mauritanian immigration (a dirt track through yet another minefield with wrecked cars on either side!). Customs followed the usual procedure,waiting around for 3 or 4 hours then being rushed from office to office to get papers stamped and signed. The national Mauritanian tourist board was there to greet us in a batterd old shipping container, not a good start.