Saturday, October 4, 2014

Ourzazate to el jadida

Woke up about 10am, just in time for our free breakfast. Made it down to the restaurant, closed. Asked. They said it was over at ten. But they brought is our rolls and jams. Then we were deciding what to do with the day. Ourzazate had a pretty kasbah and then head to el jadida a coastal town for some beach sun and relaxation before return to reality. Only we come to find out the pretty kasbah (Moroccan castle) was in skoura. The town about an hour back that we stopped in the palm groves. So matt did some research and on te way to Marrakech there is a kasbah on the mountains in the town of teulret. We decided to do it. We set out and made the drive to the p-road route where an oncoming car got a liiittttttle bit too close to us and took off our side view mirror. See post 21 rules to driving in morocco. But we have full coverage hopefully it won't be too much to replace. Kept going after some language barrier yelling back and forth with the dude. And wound our way up the valleys and mountain ledges of the one lane road including some pretty nerve wracking switch backs with one lane no guard rail and oncoming traffic. Psh, it was only 60 km or two hours to the kasbah. We arrived finally and paid the 20dirham each to enter the falling apart kasbah. It was pretty sweet looking on the inside. Crazy to believe it was a fortress back in the day. Afterwards Andrea haggled three hand made Moroccan rugs. The dude wanted 320$ for them and she got them for 140$. Not too shabby. No idea where they are going to go, but they look cool. And we also don't know how we are going to get then home.

Then we started our 30km ride back to the main road which continued trough the mountains. We stopped at a road side stand for kabob beef and fries and andrea got a Berber omelet. Eggs onions peppers tomatoes. Delicious. Kept going. Made it to Marrakech. Matt is pretty good at driving like a Moroccan. See the other post. We had 150 km to el jadida after stressful Marrakech. Apparently today is a national holiday where everyone bring a home a sheep to their family. So lots of traffic. Inclining a lot of people returning mainland after spending the day at the ocean. A lot of cars in a line on the two way road and many would just pass despite us being in the oncoming traffic passing lane. But. We made it. 9 hours later. Andrea found a hotel on the water for 90$ includes breakfast. Got an ocean view room with broken air con. Ordered lasagna and chicken panini and a couple Johnny walker cokes and a citron soda and called it a night. We are 2 hours from the Casablanca airport. Our plan is to relax and enjoy the ocean. May stay here one more night then drive to the airport. We have tickets booked to amsterdam Monday at 2 pm. Overnight there and fly some how across the pond. We shall see!

Andrea and matt.

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