Monday 31 December 2007

1200 miles - El Kebab

Small villages, twisty roads, fantastic scenery, and sheep (I was expecting goats! but I think there are more further south...)
 
The driving is interesting - there are four speeds here, "Heavy Vehicle", "Tourist", "Local", and "Taxi", in increasing order.  The best fun is to watch - from a distance - the locals and taxis fighting it out on the corners of the higher passes, both in beaten-up Mercedes, and both overloaded with passengers!  Alternatively you can get your kicks from trying to overtake trucks safely - you have to develop an art of "blocking", a la Lewis Hamilton, otherwise you are stuck forever behind the truck while local drivers overtake you and the truck and four other cars at the same time...!
 
We decided not to go to the waterfalls after all, because the journey had taken a little longer than expected (we'd been relaxing on the road, which seems to be the only way to drive here if you want to live) - instead we headed on to Marrakech.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

hope you or all OK the patrol looks better with the sticker's on it covers the dents by the way 80 m.p.h is about 75 i thought you was going to get new tiers before you went adrian