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Day 9 Skoura – Marakesh
Typed while driving into the High Atlas mountains, so not all typos are due to my usual clumsy typing. High Atlas, wow, and we haven’t got close to the snow yet. These mountains aare quite steep, mostly barren — some trees but generally just shrubbery. The road is cut into the side of the cliff, with only a foot high cement barrier and some fairly regularly spaced red and yellow striped star pickets between us and the edge. We just passed a point 2600 metres above sea level, the Tischa pass, and now heading down a bit. There are small patches of ice in tyhe ravines. Woke up this morning…
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Day 8 Sahara – Skoura
Survived our night out in a Berber tent undder the stars — it only had a single layer of blanket for the roof so we could see stars through. The bed had at least 8 blankets on it, which made it warm but very heavy. L described it as having the cat asleep on you, but on every part of you. The bed was also quite hard, with contours in odd places. so overall it wasn’t the greatest night’s sleep I’ve ever had. On the other hand, annd more importantly, we were camping out overnight in the Sahara, no phones, internet access or electricity, just us, our Berber guides, and…
