"Living With Larry" My Land Rover Discovery 1 300TDI And Overland Travel
All good trips have to come to and end and and ours was not different, after 9 days on our Morocco tour we had to start heading towards home. We did some planning and decided to take it easy for a couple of days and take a route north and miss Marakesh on the left (if your looking at a map up the right way). Personally, I already had a couple of trips planned for 2014 and 15 so it was always going to be 2016 for me, this sounds like a long time away, but it will come around fast. Anyway, enough of the waffle, lets get on with the tour. What we had missed was rocks. So after we had breakfast and packed up, recovered our heads from the beer and grabbed a coffee we set off from Foum-Zguid to head towards Tata. The dry river bed was just as we headed out of Tissinit, you can miss it, its on the right after the town.
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