High Atlas Mountains

Essaouira, Maroc

11-12 April 2025

We close the door on our comfortable stay at Dar al Hossoun in Taroudant. Leaving the cats and peacock behind, we continue our progress westward.

For the past few months, I have followed an online Moroccan travel group in order to gather tips about travel within Morocco. Consistently, I see the same towns or regions mentioned: Essaouira is one.

I most often note reasons for their visits include spas, medina, and beach. I’m hoping there are other reasons to attract visitors. 

Note: Spellcheck insists in correcting my spelling for this city. I struggle to convince that unknown entity to leave my spelling alone. I am constantly correcting spell-check. Essaouira suffers from this schizophrenic confusion. Forgive me if I haven’t caught all the erroneous spellcheck errors.

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Quarzazate, Maroc

8 April 2025

Early morning, we motor up the Road of a Thousand Kasbahs. Itinerary notes “we travel west.” This appeared commendable. I love fortresses/kasbahs. But then, yikes! Our vehicle points north into the gorge. Google maps allowed me to explore this region; I used my golden Pegman to follow the road into the gorge. The views were spectacular! However, I was hoping not to travel it in real time. Mother Nature may have outdone Herself here but then She has never been responsible for straight lines

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