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-- From 2014/12/29 to 2015/01/04
-- From Icht to Agadir, Imsouane
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The GPS road tracklog
From Icht to Agadir, Imsouanje
From 2014/12/29 to 2015/01/04

Amtoudi

Id Aïssa

On Monday, December 29 I went to Amtoudi to visit the most beautiful Agadir in Morocco according to Lonely Planet. I met a Frenchwoman, so-called Jojo, who called the guide Mohammed and invited to me to take the coffee. Indeed such a Ksar it is perched on a piton whose climbing by a mule track requires a certain time. But the effort is rewarded by the beauty for the site and the work which would date back the 12th century. The video shows that the equipment of the stones underwent the insult of the centuries without damage. The 73 attics are in the wall surrounding the piton. I was surprised by a large number of apiaries, alas deserted by the bees, fault of water. The other curiosity of the village is the inn “On dirait le Sud” considered for its tajine of kid. I due to wait 2 hours, because it is on order. Alas the kid had only the skin on its bones. Around 17:00 I visited Jojo who made me visit her house in construction. Then we discussed trips and my Azalaï motorhome. I bivouacked in the palm grove close to the dry wadi!

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Angle tower
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Barbacane
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Apiaries Arabesques
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Coran
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Panorama
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Rupestral engraving
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Inn "On dirait le Sud"
Agadir Id Aïssa

En route to Sidi Ifni

I left Amtoudi around 7:20 to go to Guelmin. After Taghjicht a cross-road leads to Fask. This road traverses splendid desert landscapes. Then I took a junction to Tighmert, oasis length of approximately eight kilometers planted with palm trees. Marie & Jean-Luc had suggested me visiting their Eli friend who lives the village. Using a Moroccan I found her. We passed +1h00 to discuss journeys into Morocco and I indicated to her the track for the Smouguene canyon. Of passage at Guelmim I stopped in Marjane for shopping and I benefitted from it to establish an Internet connection. The road to Sidi Ifni is open. I bivouacked at the bottom of a radio pylon with a 3G Maroc Telecom connectionj!

Sidi Ifni

I went down from the bottom of the radio pylon to join Sidi Ifni at approximately 13 km. But eight km before two young women made me understood that the road was cut and that it was necessary to return. I warned a track along a wadi leaving in the right direction. I end to an asphalt road that I took on the left while following the indication of the GPS compass. I arrived on the heights of Sidi Ifni whose main bridge had been carried by the risings wadi in the beginning of December. CSights are limited to the Place Hassan II, former Plaza de Espana, whose square is surrounded by buildings art-decor of the 30's. This place overhangs a camp-site along the beach where the motor homes like a HLM pile up. The camp-site-drivers like the environment which they know, promiscuity! I took an appointment with Mercedes-Benz at Casablanca on January 8th, 2015 to carry out the revision of my truck. Leaving for Tiznit I found a bivouac dominating the sea at the bottom of a radio pylon with a 3G Maroc Telecom connection again.

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Town Hall Royal Palace
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Old church, law courts Spanish consulat
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Lighthouse
Spanish Sidi Ifni
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Camping-ground!

1st Januaryr 2015

For the first day of the year 2015 I remained on the spot at the seaside at the bottom of the radio tower in idleness.

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Bivouac
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Sunset on the sea

Ida country

Ea track

On Friday morning I traversed the connection road from the seaside to the Ea track of the Ida country which is an asphalt road. I circumvented Tiznit then Agadir by avoiding the downtown area. I stopped at the forest House dating from protectorate in a forest of argans. The Ida country is famous for its honey and its winter cascades, when there is water!

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The sea from the Ea track
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Bivouac
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Forest house dating back from the protectorate
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Panorama from the bivouac
Descent from pylon bivouac & arrival at the forest house bivouac

From Km 10.8 to the km 47.2 the Ea track is a “Orangina” track according to the expression by Gandini, it is indeed badly shaking. I put +3h30 to traverse 37 km! From Sea level maximum altitude was around 1340 Mr. The crossed landscapes are sumptuous with colors very different from the Moroccan south.

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Panorama
Orangina track!

Eb track, Wintamdouine cave

At the crossroads to Imouzzer I made the dead end on the cascades to stop at the Wintamdouine Cave. The Eb track is entirely tarred up to the carpark of the cave which is a resurgence of the eponymous underground river which 8500 meters would be long. I bivouacked on the spot.

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Pool
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Wintamdouine cave

Back to Agadir, road to Imsouane

On Sunday morning I went back to Agadir to find a spot with a 3G Maroc Telecom connection to publish the weekly page of my website before traversing the connection road up to Imsouane beginning of the Gandini's D track, the Atlantic coast.

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Imsouane, edge of sea
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Surfers