Morocco, November 2024
During November this year I managed to take a bit more than a week of work to go to a, for me, new country. Morocco. My main focus for this trip was to visit a new country, going to a place I could take interesting pictures (especially of birds, wildlife and nature), where I could see some birds I had not seen, and to be honest to get away from Swedish November.
Marrakesh
The High Atlas mountains
After the visit to the really high Atlas I headed back down to lower elevations towards Marrakesh again for the night. Then early the morning after Hassan picked me up and we started the drive towards the Atlas Mountains again. One the way before we reached the mountains we stopped for some photography on a open plane. Some good birding was possible there.
After the short stops for birding we headed out through the High Atlas maintains on the newly improved highway between Marrakesh and Ouarzarzate (N7). The road is rather nice with double lines at times to allow passing slow moving trucks. While the road is nice it is very curvy as the picture below illustrates well. All the roads you see is the same road….
The next couple of days where spent on the plains on the south side of the High Atlas. These plains are really a stark but beautiful place. Wide, virtually totally flat plains follows the foothills of the mountains just scared with some few rivers that have cut into the terrain. Most of the rivers were dry even though I was there after the more dan usual rain during the early autumn.