Still in Morocco...
Trip Start
Aug 03, 2006
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Trip End
Ongoing
Arfoud, Morocco
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
The bus journey was too long so we decided to stop in a small village surrounded by snow capped mountains: Midelt (second coldest place in all Morocco). The way from Fez to Midelt was kind of scary, the road goes trough amazing and red colored gorges, blue rivers, lands with hundreds of palms, pine trees and nice, small mudd villages. So why scary? Because the road is extremely unsafe since there's no trace of guardrails (after the edge of the road there are sometimes 400 meters drops), the bus is old and unrelaiable and there are very good chances to be hit and smashed by the falling rocks (since no net is hanging on the cliffs of the mountains to prevent that)... those "smart Moroccans" have no idea what "safety on the road" means. Somehow we made it to Midelt and, after dropping our stuff in nice and cheap pension run by a berber family, went around the village guided by a Moroccan guy, very friendly and appearantly with no interset in our money...enjoyed the lush country side, some moroccan the, some hash... the nice guy, at the end of the day, turned to be the "classic Moroccan" trying to sell us a tour to the desert...after sending him to fuck off the morning after continued our way to the desert and got to Rissani. Nothing much going on in this small village a part from a nice hostel run by Abdellah, a friendly and cool, dark colored African guy. The day after Abdellah took us to Merzouga, a village right in the beginning of the desert. What to say? A dream come true! Riding a camel surrounded by endless dunes for 2 hours, the only sound the wind moving thge sand...watching all evening, completely stoned, the uncountable stars in the sky and spending the night in a berber tent in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by sand, sand and sand with the "burning" Algerian boarder 10 kilometers from us.
Now we're in Arfoud, a city next to the desert, waiting for the cancelled (due to a fload few kms from here) bus that we were supposed to catch yesterday...hoping to go west...
After a bit more than 3 weeks of travelling Morocco I have to say that my relation with this country is love and hate. A beautiful country with with a lot of controversies: ancient culture, tasty food, amazing nature but victim, for the most, of poverty that makes its people terrible hassler, always trying to rip you off and always, or at least most of the time, looking for some kind of profit. Despite that I 'm sure that when I will leave this country I will miss it...
Comments
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amazing! have no words to express what i want to write ;]so this time i better stay in silence..
just as always all the best to you both! ;*
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