Monday 23 March 2009

Friday 13th March, Iriki Salt Pan to Track out of desert

Today we had a short 10km walk to a road head. This walk was planned to be a sunrise walk. My job was to wake camp at 0400hrs to get packed and be ready to walk by 0500hrs. We set off in the dark using our headtorches and followed the route of the Paris Dakar rally which would take us to the road head.

Sunrise came about 0630hrs but unfortunately today it was not as wonderful as we had been hoping for. Just after 0700hrs we reached the road head where we were collected by truck for a bumpy ride through the desert back to the tarmac road to meet our bus. The weather was poor today hece not many pictures.

It was a long and dusty ride in the trucks followed by a 5 hour bus ride through the High Atlas mountains to Marrakech. We decided to move our celebration meal to the following evening as most folks were very tired after an early start and lots of travelling and went in search of beer instead.

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