Himi and his family were the owners of La Palmeraie D’Amezrou, a camp site set in the shade of palm trees in the Draa…

We left Tata and set off north east towards Zagora.  The scenery was mountainous, rocky and starkly beautiful. We passed herds of camels, roaming…

It was March, the start of the holy month of Ramadan when Muslims fasted between dawn and sunset.   Over 40% of the population…

An hour’s drive from Fort Bou was a nature reserve at La Plage Blanche, 40 km of sandy beach where the Sahara Desert met…

Bou Jerif was a hotel and camp site adjacent to the ruins of a fort built in 1935 by the French Foreign Legion.  The…

Our next stop was at Sidi Ifni, a seaside town popular with surfers.  Most of the camp sites were at beach level but the…

Our next stop was Camping Aain Nakhla at Guelmim - home of Salah and his family.  Salah had helped us out when we were…

We were in the Anti Atlas mountains when we re-visited Borj Biramane, an auberge at the foot of the Jbel Bani escarpment.  We particularly…

We had a spectacular drive west through the Anti Atlas mountains to Tafraout, a town popular with tourists, known for its unusual rock formations…

We left Marrakech and took the motorway west towards Agadir and the coast.  We paid a £9 toll charge for the hundred mile trip.…