“road trip through morocco” kristinrust’s photos around midelt, morocco
A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Midelt, Morocco by TravelPod blogger Kristinrust titled “Road Trip Through Morocco” Kristinrust’s travel blog entry: “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. – William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways There are 700 km (375 miles) between Rabat and the great Sahara Desert, where the road ends in sand and the great Erg Chebbi dunes stand up to meet you. In America, this trip would take about six hours. But in Morocco, in a standard shift tourist van, driven by a Muslim man with a nicotine addiction who must pray five times a day, and 11 bladders aboard, it took us about thirteen. After work on Friday, nine of us were picked up by our phenomenal guide, Hamsa, and driver Youssef. We jumped on highway N6 east towards Meknes, then south on N13 in the direction of Algeria, where we drove for five hours before stopping for the night. (Oddly, our driver drove at a snail’s pace on the highway, but as soon as we ascended in mountainous switchbacks, he floored it at mach nine. Nauseating.) It took a while to get out of the cities of Rabat and Meknes, but once we did, and got off the main highway, you see the real Morocco. I looked out the window with Van Morrison in my ear, and watched the land turn from city to village, from what …
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