{"id":25828,"date":"2017-01-21T17:47:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T17:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/?p=25828"},"modified":"2019-04-11T17:19:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T16:19:10","slug":"the-r304-to-the-cascades-douzoud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/the-r304-to-the-cascades-douzoud\/","title":{"rendered":"The R304 to the Cascades D’Ouzoud"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zagan the motorhome’s in the Dutch owned and run Camping Zebra, on the outskirts of the village of Ouzoud in the Middle Atlas mountains, Morocco (N32.004948, W6.72035<\/a>). It costs about \u20ac10 a night to stay, including 6A electricity. We’re here as there are famous waterfalls about a mile from the campsite: the Cascades D’Ouzoud, although this blog post has to be unique in the sense it has no photos of the falls. Nope. I took Charlie with me on the walk down there, and was halted\u00a0by the sight of a Barbary Macaque sat on the path on the way in. Phil and Jules went further on, reporting back this one was part of a troupe of maybe 30 of ’em. Chances of ’em attacking our wee beasty: too high to risk it. Ju and I will have a walk back in the morning sans pooch.<\/p>\n

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The R304, which we used to get most of the way here, shows up on our Michelin map as a yellow road. This basically means it’s likely to be in good condition and to be wide enough for two vehicles and so it proved. However, an army guard at the Bin-el-Ouidane dam had told us the white road up to the cascades was probably going to be closed due to snow until Monday (it’s Saturday today). Phil double-checked with a policeman setting up a routine roadblock up the road from the campsite, who called someone, who confirmed the army were wrong and the road was open.<\/p>\n

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Snow on the R304 in the Middle Atlas. Looks like only a little fell, and it was cleared by a plough way before we arrived<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Marrrakech

Marrakech here we come! 178km means about 4 or 5 hours of driving here in our lumbering adventure wagon<\/p><\/div>\n

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Snow in the Middle Atlas. We’re about 1000m up at this point<\/p><\/div>\n