Going north along the coast, we stopped at Asilah, a nice coastal town, for a breakfast at the sea (Café Daya) and took a walk through the Medina. Further north lies a cave which felt a little bit like a rip-off. Foreigners pay Euro 8,- to walk into this cave, which is partly natural, partly …
North of Rabat, we had first stopped at the lagoon of Moulay Bousselham, where we could camp directly at the lagoon, in front of a restaurant, which served us a delicious seafood platter in the evening (34.869940, -6.279698). The next morning, Cordy went on a tour of the lagoon, looking for birds. Later we visited …
Rabat was a positive surprise to us. The capital of Morocco is a very green and beautiful city and has many interesting places to visit. We had found a paid parking just next to the walled Medina (34.024050, -6.841549), where we started our explorations, walking through the Medina on busy streets with many shops and …
From Marrakech, it was an uneventful drive back to the coast and to Essaouira, just that it started to rain, when we reached the coast – the first time since about one year we were told. We went to a campsite (Villa Coriandre), where we waited for the rain to stop, and of course, the …
Outside of Marrakech lies the Anima garden of André Heller, an Austrian artist. It is a small piece of green heaven, in big contrast to the dusty surroundings of the dry landscape, for sure an oasis for the soul. We will spend another day at the campsite to work and get our washing done, before …
Arriving at Marrakech, we put up at the Les Relais campsite outside of town. From there, taxi rides were organised to the square next to the Koutoubia mosque, a very central location. An imperial city, like Meknes, Fez and Rabat, Marrakech was the capital of Morocco for nearly 350 years. It is home to a vast, 900-year-old Medina, the most populated in North Africa, …
From Foum el-Oued we took the road along the coast north, driving through a desert sprinkled with sand dunes in the shape of a crescent moon. We arrived at Tarfaya, once a Spanish colony. The nearby Cape Juby airfield was an important refuelling and stopover station for Aéropostale, an airmail carrier, based in Toulouse, providing an …
From Amtoudi we first reached Guelmim, where we stopped at the big Marjane supermarket. The parking was filled with all kind of campers who did their shopping here. We then drove through town to get the vouchers to upload our SIM card and finally left in the direction of Tan Tan. We finally stopped at …
We had read about the Igudar (pl. for Agadir), fortified communal granaries found in the Maghreb. At the village of Amtoudi, there are 2 Igudar, which had been restored and are open for visitors. In that valley, there were once 7 of them, but the others are already past repair. In addition to harvested grains, the communities inhabiting …
From Tafraoute, we drove south on a good road in the direction of Igmir. Our final destination was Amtoudi, but on the way we took a detour called “Route des Canyons”, which took us to a fascinating landscape formed by the Aït Mansour, the river we had already followed on our way to Tafraoute. We …
