The Hungry Biker - Part 2 Morocco

[Farawayvisions]

After two days of faffing in Taroudant we finally set out towards the Atlas Mountains.

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[gairym]

Great reading, sounds like one hell of a trip!

Looking forward to hearing more.....

[Ray Young]

Looking forward to hearing more.....

Me too :) .

[Farawayvisions]

Thanks guys. Got something big on my to do list today and sadly it's not a ride.
Part 3 should be up this evening. The teeny weeny bearbones meth stove will feature!
Catch you later.

[Bearbonesnorm]

Meraid ... what 'make' of maps did you take with you?

Ta.

[Mpolo]

Stu Meraid´s busy writing the next instalment wich will
maps are a difficulty we had a Marco Polo tourist map of the whole of Morocco which does not have enough detail or any contours but is ok for general planning.
I had hoped to plan more before we went on the computer then follow pre planned routes but the 2 weeks before we went i went away for work at short notice so this didn´t happen .
The best maps are from EWP publications at 1:160 000
http://www.mapsworldwide.com/morocco/mo ... -37387.htm
but at 10 quid each we would have needed 6 to cover where we went and i thought i could manage with the gps. we took 2 and I wish i had spent the money and bought all. They don´t cover all Morocco just the Atlas and around.
All maps of Morocco are inaccurate new roads have been built, villages abandoned, pistes turned into road. The other complication is place names have different spellings and completely different names depending on how the Arabic has been translated
on the gps i had open street map and olafs
http://www.island-olaf.de/travel/marokko/gps.html
we asked people we passed and soon realised they do not always know the way to the next village if they do then no idea of how far. When you get there the next day you will realise the djellaba man who said it was 15km had probably not been there.