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Step 16: Ifrane, where your ears sweat...
... uphill to see the views. Honestly, there were moments in the beginning where I did not think that I could make it up the hill. My asthma was keeping me from deep breathing and my ankles and legs felt like jello. Once I got to the top, I felt like shouting for joy. Instead, I smiled inside and knew that the journey was not over just yet.
At a landing at the top of the Atlas Mountains Cedar Forest, there were monkies ...
Ifrane: A breath of fresh air
Ifrane turned out to be a nice break from Morocco, and a lot of fun! The architecture is Swiss, so you feel like you just transported thousands of miles away from Morocco. We went up into the mountains where they have macaque monkeys. Through many years of tourism the monkeys feel comfortable ...
Morocco
... a few cups of tea, we took off to see melilla. It is a very cool town right on the ocean, and the old part of town in gorgeous. as for the rest, i think it isn't that interesting as far as looks go. what gives it it's appeal is the fact that the community of people living here is so diverse. they say it broken up into 4 major religions, and they all co-exist peacefully. the people here speak berber, as well as spanish, since it is a spanish province. but in ...
Overnight journey
... in Nador I was suffering from sleep deprivation big time. Even so, nothing would have induced me to stay there - it was a dump. So, we had coffee and cake and set off to cycle the 14kms to the port to catch the ferry. We bought our tickets (462 dh - bikes free) from Nador to Almeria, which is pretty cheap when you think about equivalent 7/8 hr crossings in Europe. We ate the menu del dia and crashed for a few ...
Setting Up base for the next 2 weeks
... we called "The Plateau" although other runners called it "The Lake" or "The Loop". This is a dried out lake bed just off the road towards Azrou. It is a very common place for Moroccan athletes to run and has also been a training area for the Qatar national team amongst many others. It is a 2km round loop, which is marked by boards and stones at each important point (100m 200m 400m 1km 2km I think). Its surrounded by forest so rarely gets windy, perfect for ...
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