The Cascades d'Ouzoud For the last stage of the journey with the tour group, our numbers suddenly dwindled. Halfway through the tour, at Meski, one couple decided for whatever reason that it wasn't what they expected and by the time we arrived at Meski they were gone. Another couple with a large van opted to do an easier pass than the Tisi-n-Test and headed to Marrakech a day earlier than us and then left. Then right at the last minute the couple in the ...

Marrakech: We had had arranged for us, a tour of some of Marrakech by mini-bus. Six of us visited the Jardin Majorelle with its exotic plants and memorial to Yves Saint Laurent who once owned them. And then to the palace of the Grand Vizier, the Palais de la Bahia, with its rooms, painted ceilings, mosaics and decoration reminiscent of the Alhambra in Granada. The Saadian tombs, started in the 1500s, next to the Kasbah Mosque and adjacent to the old city wal...

On the Road to Marrakech: We retraced out steps taking the road north from Zagora through the Drâa Valley, the only time we have driven the same road - the only other roads marked on the maps are apparently suitable only for 4-wheel-drives and none of our vans are capable of that. Now we were to take some minor roads through the Anti Atlas, the third of the famous main ranges of Morocco. These were some of the worst roads we had travelled so far, narrow ...

Zagora and the Sahara: Leaving Tamtatouchte village, we continued south through a gorge that became narrower and narrower until we were driving through a narrow gap with the cliffs rising to 300m sheer above us. The Gorges du Todra is a massive fault in the plateau and separates two mountain ranges, the High Atlas on one side and the Jebel Sarhro, the Black Mountains, on the other. A cool clear stream runs through the gorge and you are through it almost as...

Meski to Tamtatouchte: The pool was hard to leave but not much else about the Meski campsite would have made us stay even if we could. The facilities for the whole campground were two toilets and one cold shower. If you wanted hot, you had to pay extra, but with the temperatures in the high 30s, the cold one was all that was needed … that is, if you could get sufficient water! The hand-held showerhead dribbled water constantly and the difference between ...