Tinerhir to Ouarzazate
Well we are now in Ouarzazate and about a week or so behind in the journal. We’ll try and catch up when and as we can but some of the internet connections here are a little unreliable an quite frankly most of the places we have been of late have not had any internet.
We went to Hassi Labied and went on a camel trek in Erg Chebbi staying in Berber camps which was good if a little wet. No you do not have to read that again and no I did not use the wrong word. It was a little, um, wet. How many people do you know who go to the Sahara to do a camel Trek and it rains on them? But as Lou kept saying in a monotone voice while rocking back and forth ‘Its an adventure, its an adventure….’ Anyway we’ll fill you all in on that adventure in due course.
When we got back from the camel trek it was just as well we’d decided to stay an extra night in the Kasbar and booked the room before we left since due to that ‘wet’ problem I mentioned we got rained in and the road was flooded. We got out the next day using a combination of Grand Taxi and a tractor with a great big trailer on the back to get us through the flooded part of the road. I must say the tractor ride was lots of fun in an absurd kind of way.
We then headed up to Tinerhir thinking of some trekking in the Todra and Dades Gorge, when I say we I should say we’ve hooked up with a couple of American girls for a few days as we all seem to be going the same way. Unfortunately also due to that ‘wet’ problem while it is possible to get to the gorges or so we were told it was also a little dangerous, as in flash floods, rock slides etc etc. So that is when we decided to come here.
At least this morning timing wise things kind of went well. We checked out of our hotel and walked down to the CTM bus office that we had seen the night before. There was a bus out the front and we asked about the next bus to Ouarzazate. The attendant pointed to the bus out the front and said 5 minutes. So no sooner were we on the bus and headed out of town.
The scenery was nice and the water coming down the rivers was flowing quite strongly.
Comment of the day award has to go to Esther who piped up on seeing a bunch of people doing a tour of Morocco by push bike complete with suport cars ‘Tourists!’ said in a little tone of disgust. We all laughed at that one.
We got into town just after midday and after checking into a hotel we checked out the quad bikes that Lou had been interested in. The prices have gone up slightly so we are going to give them a miss.
So that is the really condensed version of our last week and you are kind of up to date as of now.
