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The day started, fashionably late as ever, with a shortish dog walk over to the back of the valley and up the hill.The Berber camp is still there! It was relatively cloudy this morning, so we took the opportunity of leaving Flynn in the well-ventilated van, and walking up into town. First up, breakfast (and,…
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The lonely planet rather floridly describes the Ameln Valley as having “26 villages strung out like pearls along a straightish river bed, beneath a curtain of granite to the north”. We were up to see a few of them. Our planning app said 8km but we were aware that our last walk up the mountain…
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It was literally freezing when we woke up. Minus 1 degree outside, and only 8 inside Jones. The heating had to go on pronto! We had to wait for proper daylight and dawn is at 8:30 here, so it was well after nine when we made our way along the wadi and back to the…
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Leaving Auberge Toukbal took a lot longer than we’d hoped. My fancy “use without unrolling” hose pipe takes a toll on water pressure and so we were left with a trickle to fill Jones’ 150l. We gave up after about 100l. Back into town for a few essentials (bogroll) and a breakfast of a rather…
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We liked the Auberge Toubkal campsite, and especially our evening view with drinks, so it was an easy decision to stay another night and do a proper hike. Our route led south into the mountains, towards Agadir n’Tarikt, where we hoped to poke around the ruins. Our walking app, Footpath, had a very hazy idea…
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The walls of Taroudant are quite a thing. They’re complete and 7km round. Flynn got his early walk along them. I walked him here last night too and forgot my head torch. In the pitch dark with the larger half of a bottle of birthday red in me I fell face first into a pile…
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It was very cold first thing this morning – 4 degrees outside, and 12 inside Jones. We’re economising with gas, as it’s difficult to obtain in Morocco, so we just had the heating on for an hour or so, using a heady blend of gas, and electricity from our leisure batteries. It was just a…
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