Update from 14th by text - Dan
The most suprising things happen in the most unusual of places. Faith is the word and for this perhaps morocco is the place. Aziz in moulay idress said goodbye and i started a journey south. The mountains held yet more rain but as i rode through this, a suprise awaited in the forested plains below. Bloody monkeys in the road. I rode a km and then realiswd in my daydream that there were monkeys in the road! Barbary apes everywhere ! Todays suprises had begun. The next was the flooded roads and rubble followed by a river below such as ive never seen. The muddy waters were a torrent of foam and i stppoed to photo then continued to midelt where the town seemed to be having a festival. As i approached i slowed and the police were turning back traffic. The road had collapsed in a 40 ft stretch washed away completly, a 4ft drop into another 6ft of water and the town had come to a standstill as people watched the eroding destruction the mountain run off created. A man spoke to me and suspicious but used to this now i decided to go with him to a hotel. Hotels here are quite different to european expectations but still, as i was about to find out, luxurious. Invited to see a local village and trying to dry out a little i went with abdul and made the foepar of saying the earth houses were beautiful but not very practical. He then invited me in to meet his family. Later i returned with him for a dinner and theological discussion that continued in a cafe and in the hotel with his friends. One of which lives in nottingham, so we hatch a plot to suprise her. We, english, dont understand what hopitality is until youve seen with these eyes, met with these people and eaten in their houses. Tomorrow i have invitations for breakfast during ramadan and a tour of the local mines before continuing on to Rich to meet mohammid.
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