Tafraoute Village

Posted on December 31st, 2009 in Africa, Morocco by robjkentjr

With a quick detour along the coast after leaving Fort Bou-Jerif, we headed back inland and up to an elevation of 3,300ft (1,000m).  To best describe our time there, I’ll give you one guess for which season is not covered when a tent is rated at only 3-seasons: the freezing winter!

Below is a link to our route map through Africa. It is only updated to Dakar, Senegal (where we got hopelessly lost) and I will be working on the last stretch this week. So far there are four parts but I will be adding a link to download the entire route for Google Earth.

http://robrasa.com/maps/maps.php
We should have expected colder weather as the road just kept going higher and higher and the locals started wearing more clothing.
Tafraoute looked beautiful in the afternoon sunset as we arrived.
We decided to go strait to lunch and try a tagine with roasted almonds and chicken over couscous (what else would there be?).
After we visited the market and were so tempted to buy some custom made shoes.
If we did buy shoes we would have had to get a Tatooine outfit as well.
After the market, we went to the women’s cooperative to buy some freshly pressed argon oil.  It is like an olive but with a more nutty flavour.
Then it was time to sleep.  We were wearing everything we had (all three shirts) and anything else we could use.  Oh, to be back in Mali!
We would have liked to stay longer but it was just too cold and did not want to spend another sleepless night in the mountains, even if the campsite did have Wi-Fi.  We made a beeline back to the warm coast via Agadir and discovered what modern European camping is all about.

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