Morocco

0600 we actually had to get up, but we still had to sleep for half an hour. After some coffee we quickly packed the rest and left the apartment around 0815. With our own car we wanted to go to Rastatt and change there into the bus to the airport Karlsruhe-Baden. Within a short ti …

Despite air conditioning it had been quite warm at night. We started the day around 0800 with a breakfast in the courtyard of the Maison, consisting of jam, baguette, cheese, salami and coffee. Afterwards we went out to look around in the Medina. Around 1000 it was still quite pl …

Due to the air conditioning running at night it was pleasant in the room. Today it should be 45 degrees in Marrakech again. The breakfast this time had additionally a boiled egg and the apparently owner of the Maison. The owner sat at his own table, had breakfast and stared aroun …

Around 0700 we woke up again and packed our things quickly. We had already paid the hotel on the evening before to get away faster that generally has the disadvantage that one pays before but also the advantage of the fast deduction, because often 0800 first of all nothing goes a …

We awoke again quite early between 0700 - 0800. Also at night there was not again this quake of the waves. But the waves did not reach the house, what you could see by the tracks in the sand. Probably the swell was a bit more violent at that time. The morning was extremely foggy, …

Early it was humid and cold. Everything was clammy, so that I constantly mumbled my new name for the place before me: Klammottens Klamm. It was high time to start from here, although it is certainly not bad. But there are more and other things to see. But this day we stayed here. …

We wanted to leave early because we still had a long way to go. It got wetter and wetter in Klammottens Klamm. The route should go via Tiznit to Tafrout. We drove past Mirleft again, but there was nothing to see. No idea what should be there. after Mirleft it went again more inla …

Due to the climate it had been extremely pleasant at night. In contrast to the sea it had been much warmer in Tafraout. But this was no comparison to the 43 degrees in Marrakech. Somehow we had to do the whole time with temperature changes. In Marrakesh and Taroudant still over 4 …

The night at Hotel Nadia was quite strange. Maybe that was due to the shabby equipment of the room. Somehow there were bedbugs. We drove into the center on the main road, which was called Mohammed V or something like that, as always, directly at the Hotel Royal. Next to the hotel …

This time we got up even earlier than usual. Overnight it was really cool in the room. Unfortunately there was no hot water and the toilet had to be flushed with a bucket. Overnight I had to suffer again attacks of bedbugs, which bit me this time clearly. That clouded this actual …

When I finished with the morning toilet the food was already served in the large lounge, which was comfortably equipped with armchairs and sofas. There was jam and for me of course Omlette Frommage. As far as I can remember this was a variant where the triangular cheese was deliv …

After breakfast we paid our bill and set off towards Dades Gorge. After careful consideration from the evening before, this was the only remaining option. To drive back on the same route would be the last option. After Fes and then further along the Atlantic back to Marrakech it …

The night at the hotel had been quite comfortable. Not too cold and not too warm. We had to turn on the heating in the evening but in the night the temperatures were just right. In the hotel we had not booked breakfast and therefore we drove with the car further in the direction …

General Aït Ibriren is a village in the upper Dadès valley in the Tinghir province of the Drâa-Tafilalet region of Morocco. It stands close to Boumalne Dadès, the small town at the mouth of the upper valley, on the road that follows the Assif Dadès upstream towards the gorges. Th …

General The last stage of a journey through southern Morocco crosses the High Atlas, leaving the upper Dadès valley and descending to Marrakesh. The valley belongs to the Tinghir province in the region of Drâa-Tafilalet; the destination is a prefecture of its own within the regio …

I was once in January 2011 in the Tazi as last night in Morocco, because the Tazi is centrally located and relatively cheap. For the same reasons we wanted to stay there again. But this time we arrived by car. I had to park the car in another parking lot and we walked to the Tazi …

General This last set of pictures belongs to the two landscapes that end a journey through southern Morocco: the valleys of the High Atlas and the city of Marrakesh below them. The range runs east to west across the country and separates the Sahara from the Mediterranean and the …

General Legzira is a beach on the Atlantic coast of southern Morocco, about 10 kilometres north of the small city of Sidi Ifni and some 150 kilometres south of Agadir. The coast there is a succession of sandy bays cut into cliffs of red rock, and the beach is often named among th …

General The last stretch of this journey turns from the sea back into the mountains. The Atlantic coast between Agadir and Sidi Ifni runs south west along cliffs of ochre and red rock, with long sandy bays between the headlands and the small town of Mirleft set above the water on …

General Below Ouarzazate the road follows the Draa, the longest river system in Morocco. The river is formed a few kilometres east of the city by the meeting of the Dadès with the Oued Ouarzazate in the lake behind the Al Mansour Ad-Dahbi dam, built in 1971 to regulate the flow a …

General South of Agadir the road leaves the Souss plain and turns inland towards the Anti-Atlas, and for a long stretch the only landmarks are the signs counting down the distance to Tiznit and Tafraout. Tiznit is the capital of its province and the market town of this part of th …

General The road south from Marrakesh crosses the High Atlas at the Tizi n'Tichka, and the pass marks the point where the journey changes character. The road links the south east of Marrakesh with Ouarzazate and is the highest major mountain pass in North Africa. A sign at the su …

Since this is the second time that I have been in the country and have spent a total of four weeks there, I take the liberty of writing something fundamental about this country. If you have never been in an Arab country before and then in Africa, then the first day can be a littl …

After an absence of four years I visited Morocco again. But this time we were on the road together. Besides, we had far more budget for the trip than the last time, where for some reason I was very cost-conscious, so that at that time I partly stayed overnight for 5€ and this tim …