Hello all!
On October 2nd 2025, we arrived in a group of 4 vehicles in the harbor of Tanga, our starting point for travelling the west coast of Africa. The first country on the list was Marocco where we planned to travel for circa 3 months. The idea was to visit the villages and cities (this blogpost) but especially the deserts and mountain areas (next blogpost).
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The cities of TĂ©touan, Chefchaouen, Fez, SalĂ©, Marrakesh, Zagora, Tafraout, Tarfaya and Al Daklah were a great mix of bigger and smaller locations to visit. Our favorite city in Morocco clearly was ‚Fez‘ with its little alleys and totally confusing passways through the old town. No chance to use Google Maps because there is no GPS signal able to reach into the alleys. Anyway, Fez is a wonderful traditional city, not too much poisoned by tourism. We enjoyed the daily city life, markets/ souks, restaurants and a lot of Moroccan atmosphere. Often we could smell a scent of hashish in the air. Also ‚Chefchaouen‘ (the blue city in the mountains) was worth a visit (they painted most of the buildings in the central area blue, what gave a great picture during sunset).
From the culinary point of view there is not too much to tell: surely the ‚thĂ© de ment‘ and the olives were great, also the couscous, the tajine, the traditional soup and the ’salade Moroccan‘ plus the ‚chicken with fries‘. But there was not much more. That food was great, but the variety of food in the restaurants generally was pretty limited. What we liked much was the vivant atmosphere in the souks, five times a day accompanied by the call of the muezzin that you do hear wherever people live, even in the smallest villages. Carsten, the biggest fan of camels, was very happy to – more and more often – could meet his great humped friends in the streets (even more outside the settlements).
Travelling with the truck works well. Not to many interruptions by the police, sometimes they wanted to chase us away at night times. Here and there the streets were in pretty bad shape, but overall we could easily voyage through the country. As expected for Africa the „begging“ started in Morocco what could kill your nerves (kids are always asking for ‚gateau‘ or ’stylo‘). It was helpful to shape our Frensh language skills a bit in advance of our trip (thanks to Duolingo) so communication was possible (even if our Frensh still was very rusty).
Greetings from
Heike & Carsten
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