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| Tafraoute to Taroudante - 116 miles |
Up earlyish to a
partially cloudy and quite cool morning, which was actually quite
nice as we are moving on today. June and Derek left early and we
planned to meet up with them later, so after servicing the van and
saying our goodbyes all round we headed out.
First call in a very
quiet town centre was to refuel – although we had half a tank our
rule is don't let it get less unless you are sure of the next refill.
Then out to the north east, climbing steadily up to the rim of the
bowl Tafraoute is in and across the hills on an excellent but almost
deserted road to Ighrem, stopping a short distance after for lunch.
Then another good but “scenic” road across the Anti Atlas
mountains, generally above 4000 ft amsl before descending sharply
into the Souss valley and onto a long dead straight road to
Taroudant.
We had planned, and
programmed TomTom, to go to the “official” guardian parking but
when we were directed to turn in through the city walls we baulked
and instead set off around them, ignoring TomTom, to try and find the
parking area. The walls are a 6km drive all round and, of course, we
went the entire length before finding the parking area we knew of;
yes about 100 metres from where we had turned the other
way........... We'd set the wrong place and of course our friends
were at the other one!
But anyway we parked up
and after a cuppa took Jamie and went looking. We didn't find them so
returned through the city and were not really impressed – neither
was Jamie who kept sitting down as if to say “I've had enough” it
now being very warm. We later communicated and agreed to meet up
tomorrow, which apparently did not go down that well with their
guardian who was saving a place for us.
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