Saturday 21st -22nd May - Essaouira We left the campsite near Marrakesh about 9.00 and headed onto the motorway for the couple of hours travel to the campsite at Essaouria. It was again an interesting drive through rolling hillsides, past olive groves and small farms with the locals going about their daily tasks at one point seeing goats sitting in the trees on small platforms. Of course these are another sight that if you stop, they expect you to pay for th...

Sunday 15th - Wednesday 18th May. After having a great desert experience, we again hit the road in the campers and set off towards our next campsite near Todra Gorge. We headed north again to Erfoud and then west along a road that reminded us of outback Australia. We passed through small towns and long patches of barren rocky plain. On the way we stopped at a Museum/Gallery that was built around 3 wells that had been rediscovered and improved as a focal poin...

Meski to the Sahara Desert. Thursday 12th May. After a not so quiet night disturbed by some local taxi drivers having a "good" time parked in the area near our campers, we rose, had breakfast and packed up to meet Steve & Hammid at the arranged parking spot outside the village. We thought we would arrive a little earlier to see if we could access the internet and Skype some of our family. With only 20 mins to spare before our group was to meet we we...

Saturday 7th May After leaving Volubilis, we drove on south to Meknes, a small convoy of three we were not that confident to find our way through the busy streets of the large city. We finally found the large car park and saw the Desert detours van so we were happy to have found the right place. Such a busy place with people and cars going everywhere, Hamid greeted us and sent us of to find Steve in one of the many cafes lining the square for a drink. The cho...

Friday 6th - Sunday 8 May 2011-05-08 We left Chefchaouen in the morning and drove through the countryside heading south again. The countryside at the moment is very green and lush, with lots of wildflowers and many plantations of olives and eucalyptus trees. There are lots of small acreages planted with wheat and other crops and everywhere you look there are shepherds with sheep, goat or cattle. As you drive along the road there are many donkeys laden with...