- High mountains and vast plains.
- Incredible wealth and abject poverty.
- Stinking drains to beautiful aromas in the souks
- Fertile farmland to parched desert.
- Crap roads to immaculate black top.
- Filthy mediaeval slums to modern high rise appartments.
- Searing heat to bitter cold (summer temp often +40C, lowest recorded -20c)
- Annoying bastard touts and some of the most hospitable people on earth.
It stretches from the edge of Europe where the climate is Mediterranean, over 1900km south to the edge of Black Africa where where the climate is most definitely desert. West to east, it ranges from fertile coastal plains to the high Atlas mountains. There is something to see around every bend....and someone who wants to sell you something, but you get used to that:-)
It is a huge country. To put it in perspective, Morocco is just about as far from top to bottom as it is from Northern France to Southern Spain, except the roads ( and drivers) are much worse. I feel I only rattled round a few of the major sights. Most of my trip was on major roads so have sort of done a tour that anyone could do in an ordinary car. The green line shows the route I took. Winter meant that many of the more 'challenging/interesting' routes were snowbound so were out of bounds for me.
All done, 5,500 miles later, this blog, over 1000 photos, a few scrapes on the bike and a lot of great memories is what I have to show for it.
Was it worth it? Definitely.
Will I go back? As soon as I can, preferably in springtime when I can take a look at some of the High Atlas roads that were closed.
By bike/car/bicycle/airplane....however you choose to get there, just go take a look. It is well worth it.
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