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Tag: Morocco
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Thursday was mainly a travel day. We drove up the Draa Valley. It’s very green and every settlement is surrounded by fields of date palms. Some of the older towns are falling into disrepair though. You might think this is hundreds of years old. It may be but also it might just be tens of…
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Today was all about the Sahara. At nine am, we were picked up from Camping Auberge La Khaima – which we definitely recommend, as there’s lots of space under the palm trees and each pitch gets a charcoal fired oven, sink and kitchen prep area. Our mode of transport today was a Toyota land-cruiser 4WD…
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After yesterday’s brush with annoying guides, Jane warned me that today might be worse. We’re now in a part of Morocco that has Sights To See and day trips from Marrakesh. But first an early walk across the rock fields for Flynn. We went a bit further than we intended so it was late before…
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We got up soon after the sun rose to make the most of the low light on the dunes. We’re camped in quite an extensive range of low sand dunes north of Foum Zguid, with views of the dark, distant mountains. The dunes border a desert area that’s more like most of that we’ve driven…
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Camping Palmier wasn’t our kind of place but it did have good facilities. For one, the water pressure was good so we filled Jones to the brim in less than an all day. The French who stay at these places are pathological about not moving the van once they’re in so, as we refilled, all…
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The highlight of the day, but not the most exciting part of it, was our tour of the underground Berber village of Icht. We were a group of French, Swiss, Dutch, German and English tourists, so our guide, Abdullah, spoke first in French and then played Google’s English translation through his portable speaker. The underground…
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The weather when we woke was very weird. Low sun underneath thick clouds on the horizon, blue skies above and mist on the nearby hills. It made for a good colour show. The rainbow felt very close. We braved walking flynn through the low clouds and then set off for the village of Amtdi with…
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There’s not much to say about today, as it was a travel day, so it’ll be a bit dull, sorry. There was thick fog for a couple of hours, as we whizzed back up the RN1 to Guelmim. We tried a Marjane supermarket, as that was all there was, but were very disappointed. I think…
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