Wednesday 2 January 2008

1600 miles - getting lost around Guelmim

Guelmim wins the title of "Most Confusing Town of the Trip (So Far)" - beating Meknes into second place and Marrakech into a dismal third...
 
The main issue: there are no roadsigns, and so you basically have to guess where you are going.  We confidently took the wrong road out of town for 25km, before we realised that we were headed for the hills again and turned round at the town of Fask.  Back into Guelmim and after cruising around for ten minutes we stopped to ask directions from an army gate guard who was pretty useless but very polite.  Then, heaven, we actually did find a sign for Tan Tan (the next town on our route).  Sadly it turned out to be pointing completely the wrong way, so we stopped to ask for directions again at a petrol station.  This guy was more helpful (or maybe we were just closer) and a little more opportunistic ("20 dirhams?") and we eventually picked up the right road (the only one we hadn't tried).  Wasted an hour and a half with that litle escapade, but hey, it's holiday :-)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Soooho....we won't complain about road signs here ever again, will we? And I'll never again complain about the parking in Sainsburys! Thanks for the updates - I am printing off the more interesting bits and taking them over to Penny! Freezing cold here - snow forecast tomorrow. Brrr. You're deinitely in the best place for weather, even if the roadsigns are crap. xx