Month: January 2025

Once a sandbox, always a sandbox…

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Plage Blanche – Agadir – Tafraout – Erg Chegaga – Tan-Tan
The sandstorm was very strong by our standards and visibility was limited at times. After intensive study of the weather maps and forecasts, we decided to head north for the time being from the campsite on the lower reaches of the Drâa river. It should be a lot better there and the mountains should provide better protection from the strong northeasterly wind. With this hope we left Ksar Tafnidilt and followed the Drâa river towards the sea on the right bank. Read More

Sandbox games

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….lower the tyre pressure and off we go
No sooner had we arrived at the foot of the Erg Chebbi – a large sand dune landscape east of Merzouga – than all sorts of ‘guides and advisors’ for desert adventures were standing next to the car. They all wanted to make us the ultimate offer; we really were spoilt for choice. But we left ourselves some time for our arrival day. Instead, we had to help a German traveller repair his caravan. A ‘guide’ led him out to the foot of the Erg Chebbi and after a crash half the inner floor was missing from the caravan and the ‘guide’ was nowhere to be found. Read More