Morocco: More Dunes and the Atlas

[Noomo]

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[Titus A Duxass]

Great pics.

[..lee..]

fantastic. thanks for sharing

[The_blue]

excellent!

Your getting me in the mood for out trip this year to ecuador

[andisnewsyncro]

Really enjoyed both these and the previous set of pictures, thanks for sharing them

[jed the spread]

Loved the dune pictures who does the Unimog belong to Miles?

jed

[T'Onion]

Amazing Miles ... amazing .... now where did i park my truck

[Noomo]

Is it on your bucket list, Unyun? (Bucket list - I won't use that again - too yoof 4 me!)

Jed, the Unimog belongs to the frequently obnoxious little twerp who was running the trip.

I don't want to give him any publicity, but will PM you with the answer if you'd like.

[T'Onion]

Yes Miles ,I'd love to go

[barsocial]

cheap spray jobs in Morocco.. just take paint!

[Louey]

Stunning and educational as always Miles. It's amazing what we whinge at in this country - roads, furnishings, luxuries and the basics of water.

In some ways I would love to do a trip like that but would probably find it disturbing and feel a little out of my depth. I'll do a few more trips around France, then Germany, Spain and then set off further afield first.

[Noomo]

Stunning and educational as always Miles. It's amazing what we whinge at in this country - roads, furnishings, luxuries and the basics of water.

In some ways I would love to do a trip like that but would probably find it disturbing and feel a little out of my depth. I'll do a few more trips around France, then Germany, Spain and then set off further afield first.

It's a bit of a shock every time I realise I'm less adventurous than perhaps I should be, and certainly less adventurous than others have come to expect me to be, but I have a friend who says, "I'd love to (own a campervan and) just follow you on your travels to see what you do and how you do it", so perhaps I am moderately adventurous after all!

I'm glad I didn't go very much further to do little more than lie on a fenced-off beach, next to a fenced-off hotel down the road from a no-poor-people night club. There are aspects of Morocco which I'm sure one should find disturbing, and not to find them so would be thoroughly insensitive (or desensitised perhaps, if one had already stayed too long in the "developing" world).

Foreign-ness is exciting, but being out of ones depth for too long can be tiring. Even so, we know that people much less well informed than any of us do manage to get by in all sorts of difficult international circumstances.

I very much agree with you about our nation's whinginess. We don't need tarmac roads, if we're healthy we don't need any furniture, and any luxury is by definition unnecessary. We have ruined almost all sense of good value and good quality, and we continue to do so. Moroccans tend to have what they need and not all that much else (and "when you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose"), but it's close to sickening to realise that they admire so much of our style and want to emulate our acquisitiveness. It seems to me that all good Moroccan families should have a warm, dry, clean home and clean water, and a garden, and a job or a pension, and plenty of good food, and a campervan. If they shouldn't, then neither should I.

I had no need to go to Morocco, but I'm very glad I went. To quote Mr Goodcakes. "What can he know of England" (perhaps swap that for Western Europe) "who only England knows?"

[Louey]

in agreement

[Lastgasp]

Well said Noomo. Rain in Merzouga, that's a novelty!

We've just got back to Spain after 3 months in Morocco and would recommend the trip to anyone priviledged enough to be able to take it. A country of contrast and contradictions which can, at times, be tiring and overwhelming but the kindness and generosity offered by people with with 'so little' was nothing short of inspirational. We plan to return as soon as we can.

There's a few pics (but no text as yet)at http://www.oboh.co.uk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

If anyone's planning a trip and wants any info feel free to ask.

[Noomo]

There's a few pics (but no text as yet)at http://www.oboh.co.uk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

If anyone's planning a trip and wants any info feel free to ask.

Tremendous images, folks. I'm reminded why I've never claimed to be a photographer, just a photograph taker, but it's interesting and amusing to notice how often similar things catch ones eye, and prompt a need / wish to record, or at least not to forget.

Was this February's weather better than 2010's?

And with regards to planning the trip, anyone heading that way would be very welcome to my long list of All Year campsites along the 2 main optional routes across France and Spain.