Morocco 4x4 overland tour, day 12 Tafraoute to just south or Marakesh via the Tizi-n-Test pass

A long day driving.....

OK so after the previous days excellent driving we knew today would be a long day of travelling on normal single lane roads all the way towards Marrakesh.

I believe we went from Tafraoute to Ait-Baha, then upto just south of Agadir and then we cut across on the N10 to the Tizi-n-Test pass.

I would love to say this was a fantastic day driving, but apart from the 1st part to Ait-Baha where we were travelling on really pretty mountain roads until we got to the past later that evening it was pretty dull.  However we do get some picture of the more interesting 1st part of the trip which was on a single track road being made into a double track road.

On the way to Ait-Baha

Rachel can be half a cow some times

Dropping into the valley towards Ait-Baha

We stopped for lunch in Biougra which again was so cheap and good it was silly, I think £7 for two of us with drinks and 3 courses.

Anyway, onward after tiffin to the Tizi-N-Test pass, I will however admit at this point I was looking for somewhere to sleep already, I was a little tired so we stopped to look at a couple of places, none of which were suitable so we kept on going.

Help I'm scared of hights

Whilst the road to the Tizi-n-Test pass was boring as hell after Ait-Baha that cannot be said of the road itself, it pretty much come up from a couple of hundred feet above sea level to I think something lie 7,500 feed with loads of single tracks.  Very steep falls, when required.  Also road works?

Road works on the Tizi-n-Test pass

Traffic jam, grr

Look camper vans going down the other way, who needs a landy

Wiggly road

More wiggly road

I need a diet!!!

Yes again the Moroccan people are improving the road network and I'm sure in 2 years this pass will have lost all its charm.  If you can use the word "charm" when your shitting yourself because you don't like heights.  Anyway, up and over we went, fantastic views again, we even saw another P38, then we found a village of reasonable size to get somewhere to sleep for the night.  

We ended up in a place called "chez momo II Ouirgane" click on the link if you can handle the music.  I think it worked out about £40 per night B&B each which was well worth it after the previous nights coldness.  Even Ken got a room which was a 1st for the tour.

The pool

The bar and dining area

Where we arrived late for brekfast

A little route planning before we set off

This was a fantastic place to stay the food was fantastic, the rooms really nice and they even had wine and beer Yay!  Bathrooms was great etc etc.

This was a good place to stay before we continued north toward home.  We may come back here in 2016 and find the gorge we missed two nights before and do the pass the other way, but only time will tell.

We arranged at the evening meal to set off at 8am the next day after breakfast.  To our amazement and the guys annoyance Rachel and I went into a deep coma until we were woken up by Mike banging on the door.  I have never seen a woman get ready so quick in the morning so we did get on way a little late at 8:30.  I guess if we just said we were going at 9am it would have been better for everyone else, but we probably would have overslept anyway.


The next day was to end with our last night in Morocco for a while....