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| Tafraout to Auorir - 111 miles |
A slightly earlier
start for a change to what was showing all the signs of being yet
another hot day. Breakfast and the rest of the packing finished, we
topped up the water from the reserve bottles the bowser filled for us
along with the tank yesterday then headed off to the disposal point
to empty a rather full toilet cassette!
Today was market day in
Tafrout so we gingerly threaded our way through the crowded town
centre onto the road leading to Agadir, initially climbing quite
steeply to cross the surrounding mountains and into the Anti-Atlas
range. East initially until we picked up the main road to Agadir, now
an excellent surfaced mostly two lane single carriageway, which was
generally quite quiet, as we've come to expect “in-country” away
from main population centres. It's times like these that makes
driving so pleasant in Morocco.
Once again we enjoyed
superb scenery and took quite a number of photographs for a change.
Here is a selection.
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| Road changes on edge of Tafraoute |
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| Don't get hazards like this at home! |
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| Look out - there's a coach coming. Move over quick! |
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| An ex-kasbah, now a hotel |
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| From the other side |
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| Houses clinging to and built into the cliff face |
Just before Ait Baha we
came across a reservoir, not very big but on this occasion it was
playing host to around two hundred camels who were being watered. As
it was lunchtime we found a partially shaded spot close by for our
break.
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| Reservoir at Ait Baha |
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| Camels |
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| More camels! |
Back onto the road and
it wasn't long before we were descending the mountains and onto the
fertile plain between the Anti-Atlas and Haut (High) Atlas ranges,
the latter appearing from out of the haze. A newly surfaced road then
took us towards Agadir, the traffic increasing as we passed through
more and more populated areas until we were on the main N1 into the
city. Our plan was to visit the Marjane hypermarket to replenish the
groceries and TomTom took us unerringly there to spend an hour
loading a trolley with goodies.
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| Starting to get busy! |
Next on our itinerary
was a visit to a motorhome repair place to see if they could sort out
the air-conditioning but it was now well after 5.00pm and we were
tired, the drive though enjoyable having sapped our energy. So
instead we continued north on the N1 a few miles and returned to the
campsite at Auorir where we were confidant there would be plenty of
room, leaving the garage until tomorrow. Sure enough there was no
problem and we parked without doing much setting up as it was now
quite late in the day and we were only stopping one night.
A light tea then an
hour or so bringing the photos, blog etc. up to date before probably
an early night. It is much cooler on the coast, much to Jamies relief
– he's been cooped up in his travel cage for most of the day and
doesn't think too much of it!
Whilst writing this
blog we've been downloading the days travel from the dashcam, which
fortunately is now working correctly. Once done we'll try to edit it
and post a link for you to follow.
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