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Agadir to Taroudant

Posted on January 3rd, 2010 in Africa, Morocco by robjkentjr

After leaving Tafraoute, we drove through Agadir to camp at Arhoud, which was an unimpressive stretch of beach.  After this disappointment, we started to drive to Marrakech and stopped in Taroudant along the way.
Goats in the argan tree eating the fruit.  We could have stopped and paid for a good picture but we just did a drive-by.
A hilltop fortress that contains an entire village within its walls.
I am sure they really are sweet girls but I would not want to be caught in a dark alley with them.
Modern European camping with all the amenities of home brought along with you.  This campment facility had over 2,000 spots in it.
This was our wonderful hotel in Taroudant, which came to be an unexpected surprise to stop for a night.
If you ever want a tagine, go to Morocco.  They have mountains of them just lying around.
A donkey cart and his carrots at the local market.  It would be too funny if there was actually a stick with a carrot dangling on it.
On this eventful stretch of road we also saw an endangered Northern Bald Ibis, could not find a campsite around Taroudant and found our first African McDonald’s.  Tomorrow, we will be in the area of Marrakech but will have to make it over a remote High Atlas mountain pass first.

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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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