This was our last long road trip of the trip. We only had to cover 250km, but the road was a single lane and wound up and up and up into the High Atlas Mountains. Passing other cars was fantastically scary but thankfully there wasn’t much traffic on the road.
We had a few photo stops along the way to break up the trip. At one of the stops Lorraine made a “technical stop”. A few kilometers (and a few hundred meters higher) she felt car sick and unfortunately she didn’t ask the driver to pull over until it was too late. We did the best we could to help her clean up – and to clean up the bus. Sadly, there was no option but to continue driving. After much urging she did agree to ride at the front of the bus where she could see outside the front window. That seemed to help and she had no further problems.
Another stop was the Tinmel Mosque, a disused mosque that is one of the oldest in Morocco. It was spectacularly beautiful, even in a state of decline. I couldn’t imagine how amazing it must’ve been when it was a working mosque.
We arrived in Marrakech in the early evening. We had a slow drive through the medina but didn’t get out of the bus. After we checked in at the hotel some of the people in our group went on a horse carriage ride around and through the medina. However, Mom and I were quite tired – and I was starting to develop a head cold – so we stayed in and had an early night.
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