Day 14 – Asilah (first day in Morocco)

We left the car park this morning on time at 08:30 with about 15 in our party. It was surprising that most of the French vans who had come during the evening last night had already left to take the early ferry. There must have been in excess of 100 vans on the car park last night.

The short drive to the port was straight forward and we then queued until they opened the gate for our ferry. Finally we had our passports, tickets checked and given boarding passes for outward ANC inward journeys.

We boarded the ferry and found ourselves turning on board to come off the way we went on. During the short crossing we had our passports stamped with a CIN which is the Moroccan ID number we will need throughout our stay.

The next challenge was to get through customs and the police. We finally hot our stamps, registration and import documentation for the can and we were on our way. Next stop was to change our money. The rate was 10.74 dirhams to the euro. Morocco seems to be a cash based society and credit cards are seldom used.

Now on our way down the toll motorway we fill with fuel at the first garage. 520 dh for over half a tank of fuel….very good value at approx 60p a litre.

We arrive at Asilah and the first contingent of vans have negotiated a deal on our parking…. 30 dh tonight. Our next thought is to get a Maroc SIM card but it seems that it us a religious holiday and the shop is closed. We will try it in the morning.

The parking area is on a car park right next to the beach. The dogs loved the sand and sea and were running around enjoying the freedom.

We travelled 89 km today.