Lunch Stop at Azrou
Had an hours break here for lunch. We had an amazing tagine at a roadside restaurant. Very tasty and it came with the most amazing bread and green olives. There was also a sambal-like dip which was delicious and was very fresh tasting and only a bit fearsome. It forewarned you not to dollop a huge lump of it onto your bread. A smidgen would do.
The town looked very prosperous with many solid stone buildings. There was a mosque on what looked like the town square. There was lots of greenery around. The women wore traditional Muslim long baggy dresses and headscarves but there were plenty of younger women who wore modern western dress with makeup and no headscarves.
A lot of the men wore djellabas. The djellaba is a long and loose type of robe that is often worn over the top of other clothes. It has long sleeves and a pointed hood. The hood helps to provide shade in the sun and keeps people warm in the cold. In the past, when there were larger numbers of desert-dwelling and nomadic peoples, it prevented sand from being blown in a person’s face too.
It’s great bring on an overlanding truck again. Our truck, Talullah, (I think) is new to Madventure. It was previously a Dragoman custom built truck.
We are passing through varied landscape. This morning the scenery was very green and forested and as we climb higher, the vegetation diminishes. Now, late afternoon, it looks like bare desert with the occasional scrubby small plants. There are no trees anymore. Earlier today, we passed through a hilly region with fantastic shapes etched by the wind and rain, I imagine, into the tan sandstone. We will see a lot more desert as we journey into and through the Sahel and the Sahara.
Travelling to our bushcamp for the night. We should be there in a few hours.
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