Sofitel Royal Golf el Jadida

... and we ended up on a flight from Nouakschott to Casablanca thereby dodging danger and doing the same Saharan route again.

Another eventful evening arguing for our admission on to the plane after a discrepency with dates but we did eventually end up cruising to Casablanca, cutting a 3 day journey to just 3 hours!

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... being echoed around town, it fell silent and surfacing from our slumber we saw streets littered with the remains of the unfortunate animals and all sorts of people preparing the meat for their meal that evening. Although i am not vegetarian, i do veer that way and found it all mighty morbid if i am honest. An interesting and intriguing event nontheless and nothing compared to the crisis to occur in due course...

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A quelques jours pres
voici la suite de notre periple

Apres Meknes nous avons
fait une petite escale a El jadida au sud de Casa Blanca pour
quelques heures, Guillaume a eu le temps de perdre une couronne.
Cette station balneaire sans interet nous a pas inspire. Nous avons
repris la route en direction de walidia,

Departure from Morocco is a long process so leave plenty of time. Flights leave early and customs is slow and thorough. Be very early to allow plenty of time. The lines are long and the flights do not wait.

Take a trip of a lifetime. When I ...

... products are sold. The oil has several benefits, including cosmetic, health, etc. I bought some soap and face cream that will hopefully prevent anti-aging, at least I hope. :) I'm still looking like a lobster somewhat from the fishing in Agadir on Monday, but it is starting the fade. Tomorrow we need to be up by 6:15 for breakfast, or for me, probably just some coffee, so I'm going to sign off soon. Au revoire and more from Rabat!

... quize euros la chambre double et on va diner pour 6 euros chacun. On a repéré le golf de El Djadida et on va certainement y faire une reconnaissance de terrain. L e baroud c'est pour plus tard. Les nostalgiques, patientez !! Il y aura encore une semaine à attendre (Club Med d'Agadir) et après on se tatera pour savoir si on plonge vers la Mauritanie.

... road a couple of times, honked at other taxi drivers for fun and chatted to them with thier windows down while driving and still managing to pick up an old lady walking into town, we arrived (alive) and found a cheap hotel. Did the walk around the top of the madina walls and looked through the shops and souks. Its amazing how no-one bothers you once your out of the tourist areas! But the men do stare a fair bit more ...

Ahhhh. El Jadida was the saving grace of the trip. Since we couldn't do the ever-popular camel trek, a few days on a beach was in order. We follow the travel gods and their signs, and they clearly were telling us to get the hell out of Ouerzazate, or we would surely die. We found a somewhat decent hotel when we arrived. That was after a few Km hike with our packs in the midday sun. We noticed a few taxis driving around but it ...

... drifted in and out of consciousness, only awakened by a soft kick from the sleeping man sitting across from me. We groggily piled into taxicabs as the drivers looked skeptically at the map we had handed them. As he turned down a deserted dirt road, ridiculous fears began to take over and we urgently asked where we were going. With no answer he pulled further down the road and another man appeared. All ...

Cigarette selling Kids, Ramparts, Fish Market Restaurants, dirtier beach than Paradise, Asilah, 2 nights here, then meeting Emma in Marrakech. Was a mission getting a taxi to Marrakech from El Jadida. Had a problem leaving cos Tim got beefy with some mechanic guy at the Bus station. He said he was trying to help us. Tim thinks he was trying to rip us off and everyone started hating our guts. I think Fes might have been right.