Day 36 – Tafraoute

We didn’t have to far to travel today so we had a leisurely start. We left the site at around 11am and drove the 6km into Tiznit where we filled with diesel. We have around 100km to drive to Tafraoute.

The scenery was stunning and the roads were just as bad as I remember them from last year. When a vehicle approached, especially and lorries or buses, we slowed right down and moved over thus ensuring that we did not have a repair bill for a replacement wing mirror unlike Ron who had hit someone a few days earlier.

Just before the town we were looking for the turn off for the painted rocks. After one aborted attempt to find the place we did eventually find it 7km before the town. It was as disappointing as last year.

We were soon driving through the town and onto our parking area finding Phillip & Mena who had arrived a few days earlier. We are now formed up on three sides of a rectangle with the sun hopefully with us most of the day. It was very pleasant sitting out with them but as the sun dropped in the sky it soon got quite chilly. Phillip said that this morning he had a few icicles on his van formed during the night. I think that we will have to wrap up tonight. Still the day time will make up for it.

The site here seems to have fewer vans than last year but the location is as stunning as ever. Hopefully we will keep the sun longer and it stays warm. Tomorrow we will have to go and explore the town and hopefully get some more fresh doughnuts if the guy still does them this year.

Sat with Phillip this evening and tried watching the Wales v England 6 Nations Rugby match but gave up with video and just had the audio. The internet speed meant that we were only able to see a minute or so before more buffering. At least we won on Welsh soil.

Phillip, who has been taking some stunning photos, is featured in my image for tonight.