The Anti-Atlas lies between the Atlas mountains, and the Sahara, and we love its fantastic rock formations, which we had already enjoyed on our first trip. This time we drove from Aït Benhaddour south-west and stopped for the first night at a fantastic place, just below abandoned cave dwellings. (30.474717, -7.625234) The caves are nowadays […]
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In Goulmima we found a nice campsite, and a guide who showed us the palm garden and the old ksar, where he was born. With Omar, we first walked through the palm garden. Between the palm trees, wheat and alfalfa is growing. The farmers were busy preparing their fields, as they will be flooded in
From our nice campsite, we drove in the direction of Missour, a little town where the mountains of the Middle Atlas end and the desert starts. We did this detour to get to some grids Edi wanted to activate for the ham radio community. On the way, we had some nice scenery and spotted some
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From Al Hoceïma, our most eastern point here in Morocco, we drove south through the Riff mountains up to about 1,400 metres, where we spent the night at the top of a mountain with great views in all direction. The third grid was activated here. The next day, we reached Taza, a big city at
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First we had booked a ferry for the afternoon (to avoid high waves), then the ferry had at least 1-hour delay, therefore it was already getting dark when we left the harbour in Tanger Med. But we found a good spot at the beach in the village nearby. The next day, we drove inland, past
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Our first stop at the Algarve was at Armação de Pêra, where we found a nice, spacious campsite, from where we could easily explore the cliffs to the west and the endless beach to the east of the town. Besides of exploring the surroundings, we also enjoyed the campsite (there was some knitting and crocheting
Along the coast, a famous long distance hike, the Trilho dos Pescadores or Fishermen’s Trail starts south of Sines and leads 226 km along the coast, past Cabo de São Vicente until Lagos. We did the first few kilometres until Porto Covo, and later on came many times past the trail and the many hikers. After our
South of Sétubal, we had found a short hike called Percurso do Salgueiral da Galiza, which leads through a natural reserve. Short after we started the hike, we noticed a deer between the trees. We didn’t move or speak, to not scare it. Instead of moving away, it came slowly closer, until it walked past
Setúbal is known for its resident dolphin family, which we wanted to pay a visit. We went to a camping near Sétubal and booked a dolphin tour with Rotas do Sal for the following day. The estuary of the Sado River is the habitat of a large family of bottlenose dolphins. We were told that there
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When we finally left the region of Óbidos, we stopped just a little further south at the Buddha Eden Garden. This park with 35 ha was created as a reaction to the destruction of the Buddhas of Banyan, an act of cultural barbarity, erasing masterpieces of late-period Gandhara art. Beside of the lovely Buddha Garden,
