Oukaimeden
Travel Blogs from Oukaimeden, Morocco
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Inner City Pressure Respite
This morning we set off on our much anticipated 4 day High Atlas Mountains trek. We were taken from Marrakesh to the small village of Imlil by a van owned by our tour agency. Imlil is the gateway village to the High Atlas and our guide, ...
Food Poisoning At 4000m
Our Guide, Mohammed, had told us that he would wake us at 4AM to get as much walking done in the cool of the morning as possible. Throughout the night Michelle was tossing and turning with stomach pains and only got about 1-2 hours sleep at best which ...
a totally different world - Arabic Africa!
... out of the sleazy border town of Tangier and headed on an overnight train to Marrakesh. Marrakesh is one of the bigger cities in Morocco, and has culture from Arabs, Berbers, and Jews ingrained in its soul, which makes for a superb place for our 3 day ...
zejście w 2 godziny
kolano i staw skokowy dawały się we znaki... time to go down magical place ...
La route est coupée or ACrackingOverTheTopDrive
After some delicious pastry for breakfast, we set off in the 3 cars, divided up 2 in each car, just as we had done the evening before, to keep eachother company. We moved quite quickly and soon reach the city Guelmim, when most of us were hankering for ...
Oukaimeden to Tacchedirt
... just managed with minutes to spare before the cloud came down. The team then had a long descent back to the main pass between Oukaimeden and Tacchedirt, from there down the other team also took the route but did not meet as the 'fast' team took too ...
I might be starting to enjoy this....
Some days later, we ended up in Oukaimeden which has the dubious honour of being Morocco's premier - and only - ski resort. After my initial wobblies on Day 1, I got used to the heat, the altitude, the dust and Graham, and enjoyed some short(ish) day ...
A Note about Toilet Tents
You need to know about this. Everyone should share in the joy. If you have ever had to use a toilet tent whilst on trek, you will know exacrly what I mean and, on closing your eyes, will be able to visualise (and smell) the gloriousness. And if you ...
The Roof of North Africa, Jebel Toubkal
24th May 2011 We were up at 6:30 and after a 40 minute walk, arrived at the grand taxi rank on the outskirts of town. When we arrived, we discovered that most people had already left for Imlil. The taxi was cheaper with the more people you had in it so ...
Into the mountains for a stroll!!
Starting from Marrakesh at about 10.300 this morning drove in a minibus (with a self-opening rear door) into the mountains and up to the ski resort of Okaimeden, and decamped to set up for a walk up to Tidi n Attur a mountain village with many sheep, ...
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