Blogs from Agadir, Souss-Massa-Draâ, Morocco, Africa - page 5

Nov 11 n 12 Well i'm combinging these 2 days because they were down days for us. We litterally did nothing internet, eating, reading, sleeping. There was one thing I was gonna add but I can't remember so it couldn't have been that big. Haha Nov 13 Today was another slow lazy day. We ate n did some errands in the am.  The next swell was supposed to start filling intoday so we decided to try the break called banana point. It wasn't bad only about waist high but we snaged some really fun chill lines. It was a perfect beginer wave so there was tons of them out there. As we were shotng the line it was like a mind field. We did a quick bareback surf. The water was probably lowmid 60s so we ... read more

Good intentions. The road to hell is paved with good intentions (whereas the road to southend is paved with bitumen...). I never did make the essaoiria dawn, although for a holiday 730 am isn't bad as a start. Iwent down for breakfast then set off for a final stroll around this citythat I have to say I have really taken to. Its such a relaxed place and just existing here is nice. I can't really say I've done a ton the last few days but I've loved it. I think three days in marrakech doing nothing much would have driven me to drink, which is not particularly easy in this country! Friendship is a funny thing. I returned to my friends at the spice souk. While willing to offer me all sorts of narcotics for free ... read more

Après 4 h de bus (climatisé!!) nous sommes bien arrivées à Agadir! Nous y avons passées une nuit! Nous avons enfin pu voir la mer que nous attendions tant ... Il y fait beaucoup moins chaud (on a même eut froid!!!) surtout le soir! On a visité un petit peu, c'est une ville très touristique. Depuis hier soir nous sommes à Taghazout, petit village côtier au nord d'Agadir. Ce matin on a fait une ballade en chameau !! Ouai!!!!!!!!!!!!! C'est trop bien mais ça bouge beaucoup! Sinon c'est baignade, ballade, baignade... ben oui il fait quand même très chaud! J'ai bronzé (dixit Manon), entre les coups de soleil!! Caro: no problem pour bronzer!!! Nous avons rencontré deux charmants jeunes hommes qui nous on fait visiter Taghazout ce qui nous a permis de voir les choses d'une ... read more

After nearly a week off the bikes "on vacation" in Essaouira, we resumed our southward journey down the coast with a very short 25km leg to the beachside village of Sidi Kaouki. This tiny town - barely more than a bus stop, and not even rating its own mosque - has only recently appeared on tourists' radar screens, and the road to it - a 30km loop west of the main N1 coastal highway - was only fully paved in the last few years. The driving force behind its development has been the international community of windsurfing fanatics; even more than in Essaouira, the winds here are predictably steady and strong, so much so that there is a huge wind farm generating electricity on the hillside just up the coast, financed by the German government and ... read more

We got up too early this morning, we were even up before the sun. The stalls were only beginning to set up as we walked down the streets to the bus station. We wanted to buy food for lunch but only found a stall selling brown bananas which we bought four of. We arrived at nine for the nine thirty bus to find that it was already pretty full. It was another rickety vehicle with scruffy seats and worse leg room than ryanair. As we were waiting to put our bags in the hold of the bus, we stood next to four nets full of chickens. There was no room for them to stand and their necks kept on getting trapped through the holes. We sat on the bus for half an hour waiting for it ... read more