Helen goes to Morocco Day 19 – Aroumd
The plan today for the group was an acclimatisation walk up to about 2500m from our guest house which would include a visit to the Tidli Waterfall. That was no longer on my plan for the day though....
View ArticleHelen goes to Morocco Day 20 – Aroumd
Today the group were heading up to the Neltner Refuge where they would spend two nights. I was not going to be heading up to the refuge. When I had woken up still sick yesterday and had not improved...
View ArticleHelen goes to Morocco Day 21 – Aroumd
Day 21 and guess what?? Still sick, still in Aroumd. My menu today consisted of the following:Breakfast – Bread & Vegemite with some teaLunch – Bread & Vegemite with a tiny bit of tuna &...
View ArticleHelen goes to Morocco Day 22 – Aroumd – Chamharouch- Aroumd
Day 22, we left Aroumd for a little while today Brahim, myself and Alan, the other traveller that had stayed behind due to also liking the Cos lettuce leaves walked up to Sidi Chamharouch to meet the...
View ArticleHelen goes to Morocco Day 23 – Aroumd & Imlil
Today was a free day or a rest day. It was a day for the walkers to have a lazy day around Aroumd if they wished or perhaps a stroll down the hill to Imlil. A group of us (9) decided to go down to...
View ArticleHelen goes to Morocco Day 24 – Aroumd – Tizi Oussem
Today we were off on a two day walk that would bring to an end our walking in the Atlas Mountains, we were going to start rolling generally back down to sea level from here on out. Margaret however...
View ArticleHelen goes to Morocco Day 25 – Tizi Oussem – Imi n’Tala
Today was an interesting day, a kind of sandwich day. It started off good, it ended good but the middle section was just blah, I was mighty close to staging a mutiny and sitting down on the road and...
View ArticleHelen goes to Morocco Day 26 – Imi n’Tala to Sidi Kaouki
Today we were leaving our village by the spring to head to a village by the sea! But to get to the sea, we had to drive. We drove about 200km today over the course of about 4 hours. A much faster...
View ArticleHelen goes to Morocco Day 27 – Sidi Kaouki to Essaouira
Today was our last day with a “real” walk in it. We would walk 15km along the coast and the beach from the village of Ouassane to arrive on the beach at Essaouira. Sort of quite a last hoorah when you...
View ArticleHelen goes to Morocco Day 28 – Essaouira
Essaouira. Toto, we are not in Kansas anymore. That last 2 weeks or so in the Moroccan countryside had kind of made the hub bub of a city fade away a bit. Essaouira, was very much a tourist, beach,...
View ArticleHelen goes to Morocco Day 29 – Essaouira to Marrakesh
Today was a bittersweet day, the end of our tour was tomorrow after a tour of Marrakesh and today would be our last day with any driving which would mean farewell to Ibby & our bus when we got to...
View ArticleHelen goes to Morocco Day 30 – Marrakesh
Today, was our last day on tour, which like all things was coming to an end. We had a lovely buffet breakfast in the hotel and fortified ourselves for a day of exploring. Our tour would take us...
View ArticleHelen goes to Morocco Day 31 – Marrakesh
Today was the start of our 4 days of adventuring by ourselves in Marrakesh and to say we (I at least) were slightly excited was an understatement. We somewhat eagerly checked out of hotel...
View ArticleHelen goes to Morocco Day 32 – Marrakesh
Day 32, a few days later in getting up because of the combination of starting a new job and a weekend full of activities. Day 32, a another fantastic day. I’ll be honest, I thoroughly enjoyed our few...
View ArticleHelen goes to Morocco Day 33 – Ouzoud Falls & Iminfri
Day 33, 9 October 2019. I had planned on getting this post up last weekend (10 or 11 October) but I had just started a new job and well life has been a bit busy This was a big day out and just like I...
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