The country road from Agdz westwart to Taroudant is nice and easy to drive. No pedestrians on sides of the road. Uneventful. A text meassage from hotel manager in Taroudant: We need to contact him on arrival in town. The river bed is flooded and unpassable for cars after few rainy days, he will guide us through an altternative way to enter the hotel.
Right upper corner: The usual path leading to our hotel
Sorry, did we hear it right? Taroudant, a former capital of the Saadians, has a population of 75.000 inhabitants and is not in the Sahara!
The entrance hall of our room
After some excitement in the darkness we arrive dry and safely in the hotel. Our room is upgraded to a suite. No WLAN in room but cosy bed.
The bedroom
A walk into medina next morning in Taroudant. As busy and overcrowded as many other medinas we have seen in Morocco. Time to leave for the next destination Essaouira on the west coast.
Essaouira beach
Arrival in late evening. Rainy and windy in Essaouira. Basic but clean hotel room. We get used to luxury now!
A sunny and warm seaside town with empty beach next morning. Few surfers in water. A sporty man exercises Qigong in the sand. The usual medina within the city wall. Next destination Rabat capital.
Motorway sign in Arabic and Tamazight, a Berber language
The motorway has been extended further southwarts, up to the North of Essaouira now. Although it does not appear on the latest roadmap of Michelin yet, but it is well signposted.