Iberostar Saidia
Saidia, Morocco
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Wow, what a long and richly varied day. 20hrs to be precise. An amazing day. I got some patchy sleep through the night on the bus to Almeria. The little newborn behind me was reasonably ok too considering it's lack of experience of long distance overnight spanish buses. And of the whole day and night bodyclock thing in general. When the bus pulled into Almeria station at 5.30am it was still fully dark outside. I'd seen Google maps of this area a few days before, and ...
(Camel) Spit in my Eye
... from head to toe, sitting in a cafe populated by men, showing off my shockingly different hair and tanned forearms would suggest I am more sexually free than a Muslim woman. I'm still trying to understand how differing religious practices = slut but I try to be forgiving. I'm getting better at the whole don't make eye contact and flip them the bird thing when I'm stared and hissed at. It makes me thankful for our ...
Travel on the Zegzel Gorge
... of Morocco.
Today we got onto more of the main thoroughfare and we saw many more trucks that we have seen on the scenic routes that we were on, and the dominant brand of truck we have been seeing is the Mitsubishi both the Canter and the Fighter models, of course there were the large MAN and a Volva trucks and of course the dominant Mercedes vans carrying every sort of product, from people to sheep and goats packed in really tight, with the sliding ...
We went through several market towns
... they get on a motorbike that is the only way they know how to sit!
There's a beautiful drive through the mountains with a little villages spotted here and there and we're starting to see signs of cultivation with the hills being Terraced for gardens. Our average speed today has probably been about 40 KPH.
We found plenty of location where we could fill up with water today, the locals were filling up their own plastic bottles.
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Mediterranian coast
... was that they did it in their cloaks and the women with their headscarfs. Found it intersting how that even though the head scarfs were on, so were the baseball caps. Guess it shows what people will do for fashion the the impact of western TV.
Ended up spending the evening wandering round town and eating by the coast: Decided not to spend the extra day, since I didnt reach the national park, and decided to spend an in Chefchaouen instead.
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