Saturday, March 21, 2009

Midelt-The first day in Morocco

It was a long day. We arrived to Melilla about 8am. First to do was to change money. Jaime remembered the old man he changed money before. The old man was at the same gas station. Then we head to the border. Not much to say about it. Typical chaotic border scene. A guy helped us for 5 Euros. The whole process took about 45 minutes.
I have to say that the first 200km on the way south were not so special. There were at least 3 radar controls.After Guercif the scene became more interesting. On the right side the middle Atlas mountain range appeared. After Guercif we stopped at a village to photograph some ruins. 20-30 kids surrounded us immediately, asking for money, pens, other things. I walked away from my bike 10 meters to take a picture and realized afterwards that kids took my camera bag. Lesson learned we won't leave the bikes alone even for a second. Last 50 kms of the ride was nice because we passed some Berber villages with interesting architecture. When we arrived to Midelt it started to rain like hell. We liked Hotel Kasbah Asmaa. It has decent quality and charm. The food was good to.It was a good day. We arrived to our destination earlier than planned.
Tomorrow we have more kms to drive. We will continue driving south and then towards Tinerhir to see Gorges du Todra. Afterwards we will head southeast to Merzouga next to Erg Chebbi sand dune.

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