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Pretty much everyone we met told us about this fantastic and beautiful drive that we had to do. Really everyone! What is this road you ask? Itโs the R107 which is actually a mountain pass. Itโs not very long yet everyone also kept telling us to plan a full day for it, because of its beauty. We were intrigued and made sure to fit it into our itinerary.
Icht is another small little village in the south of Morocco. It is known for its ancient town that is partly underground as well as stone carvings that are supposedly dating back quite a bit.
Tata was one of villages that came highly recommended and it didnโt (fully) disappoint. It is a nice little quaint village and it has a river flowing through the middle of it โฆ when there is water. Which there wasnโt much of.
After sleeping in and enjoying a calm day (the young folks call it โchillingโ) at Bou Rbia we made our way further West. We had found a couple of great spots to camp on Park4Night near Tissint. First, however, we needed to fill up on water and used a well next to a Mosque. Itโs fantastic that they let you fill up for free!
After our excursion into the desert we decided it was time to move on from Mโhamid and our beloved campsite. We said our see-you-laters to our new friends and drove off. Our new destination was a place called Foum Zguid.
As I have alluded to in our last blog, we did an excursion into the โrealโ Sahara Desert, to Erg Chegaga. No, that is not the name of yet another Star Wars character, but simply means โDune Chegagaโ (actually, erg = โsea of sandโ, but I hope you will allow me to call it a dune).
Long before we had a van we were following a couple of โvan-lifeโ folks on YouTube. Most of them are no longer on our subscribed list, but one particular channel somehow managed to keep our interest for a long time. It is that channel that gave us the initial idea to visit Morocco. We saw in their videos that all kinds of RVs are going to Morocco and reassured us that you donโt need a monstrous overlander truck with massive tires to get anywhere interesting.
Zagora, we finally made it! And, spoiler alert: it held all its promises and fulfilled all our wishes. We arrived and recognised a few things from some YouTube videos of other van-travellers, which was a funny experience! The Main Street was super busy as you would expect, shops, cafes, restaurants, schools, street vendors โ and of course garage after garage with lines of campervans, overlanders and motorhomes waiting to get their work done.
On day 2 of our Morocco journey we drove south as far as Tazentout. Since we were really fed up with the bad weather, there was no question that we wanted to get to sunny and warm weather as quickly as possible. It was a bit too far to reach our unofficial first goal Zagora in one day, so we checked the map for acceptable distances and then picked the best campsite we could find on Park4Night. That is how we ended up in Tazentout at Camping LยดEscale de Ouarzazate.
Our plan for escaping the cold weather in Europe for this year was to discover Morocco. Living in Germany, this meant a bit of a drive through Belgium, France and Spain. We met some old friends along the way which meant the journey was a bit longer compared to driving straight through. We arrived in La Lรญnea de la Concepciรณn on Monday, 2 February, bought our tickets from โCarlosโ (a tradition as we were told) and proceeded to our campsite which was next to Gibraltar. We took the opportunity and visited the rock for a couple of hours. At this point, we had no idea what was about to happenโฆ.
