Todra Gorge to Tizi Tirherhouzine, Morocco | ![]() |
Week97 16th February 2013 |
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Todra Gorge is a very narrow, deep gorge.
With a road. |
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We camped at the north end.
And looked back. |
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Watching the light change. | |
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Our truck is visible, and the road for tomorrow. | |
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Walked up the road a bit to look back.
The gorge is the narrow bit off to the left. Reminiscent of some gorges in the West McDonalds, to the north west of Alice Springs. |
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Behind us there was a steep track leading out of the gorge.
We watched a couple of women carrying water up it. Harsh is the only word for it. |
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The gorge is long and rises steadily. | |
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Eventually opening out onto the plateau.
We think this is the end of a school running race. There was a convenient way round through a car park. |
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Rather surprising there is green in the fields.
Then again. It had snowed up here about three weeks ago. |
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Something incongruous about carrying what we think is firewood past the communications towers. | |
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We are surprised at the extent of the fields and the size of the villages. | |
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And still rising. | |
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I saw the sign and thought diesel had been misspelled.
Only later when looking at this photo and the map and the track into the mountains did I realise the sign was about trips to the salt mine. |
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We climbed and climbed.
There's a village in the distance. |
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There's remnants of the old track below the new sealed road. | |
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When looking at the map the salt mine is roughly where the valleys meet.
There's a long track leading up the side of the peak. |
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Couldn't resist the view as we climbed still higher. | |
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We are camped just past Tizi Tirherhouzane.
We are at about 2689m. The distant peak is about 3000m. |
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Not far to walk to the gorge.
The peak is round the corner to the right. |
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And the end of the gorge.
Opposite us was another walking track out of the gorge. It looked a bit steep in places. |
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Our camp was on a track leading up to the communications towers. | |
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Minus 1.8 deg C outside in the morning.
Barometer falling. |
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So we set off down the track back to the sealed road. | |
Lac de Tizlit, Morocco | ![]() |
Week 98 17th February 2013 |
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