Friday 19th
Mileage 67426
Punctures 1
Today its much cooler, there are lots
of clouds in the sky keeping the sun off us (hmm, could have used
that in the middle of the desert yesterday!) The Vespa riders took a
different route to us yesterday so we left a small camp of 2cvs
behind when we left at 7.30am. We drove off road for about 70km, I
beat Dad to the driving seat again today and thoroughly enjoyed the
slaloming rocky track which lead us to more mountainous scenes of the
Atlas. Yesterday we drove through a huge gorge and reached approx
3000m elevation today we were half that, I was writing the blog and
made myself really dizzy due to the altitude and about 1000 corners
every 10 miles! So I was pleased we were not so high today! And it
was worth it to see the layered rock and muti colours making up such
amazingly grand views, I don't think and camera can do it justice.
Today was a pretty easy day and the
last part was tarmac, we dove as a 3 car convoy none of which had
problems! (these cars are awesome!)
I got to drive another team car for a
while, up and down the mountain which was fun and a little adrenaline
fuelled as the steering wheel was on the wrong side of the car and
African drivers give way to no-one! Haha – TAB (That's Africa
Baby!)
We stopped a little before camp at
Ouarzazate (North Africas Movie Capital) where films such as Sahara,
Gladiaror, Lawrence of Arabia.....and others were filmed. I actually
stayed here with another team and Dad continued the remaining 15km to
the Hotel. I bought myself some souvenirs then made my way back too.
When I arrived Dad had a big smile and proceeded to tell me how he
got bored and took Laura up a mountain, stopped at the top, took some
pics, then spotted our FIRST puncture!!
The hotel was really lovely and had
wifi but it was slow and kept disconnecting. I had hoped to send a
few mails and messages but with the blog too it was not possible ….so
love to all from Africa!
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