A 6:30 sunrise had our group up and about, well fed on Moroccan flat bread, olive oil and possibly the best orange juice in the world. Feeling fit and refreshed despite the hour we took one last look at the Falls and the monkeys playing in the olive trees around our accomodation

The Monkeys of Ouzoud
, Truly the best Orange Juice

I, being naive to this kind of trip and this terrain had no idea we were about to say goodbye to nice smooth Tarmac for the next four days, instead swapping it for rocks, soft sand and terrain you would rather not attempt to drive on.

A very challenging drive

From Ouzoud we would travel accross the Atlas into the clouds and down the other side to Ouarzazate, stopping on the way at a extreemly remote school a few rough hours away from the Falls with pens, paper and school equipment. En route stopping to give out clothes, sweets and caps (Thanks to Spence and Chelsea FC for the latter) to the poor kids on the "road" through the mountains.

Three Atlas Mountain Kids with their Chelsea Caps
,The School at the top of the World

Ouarzazate, as clean a Moroccan town as you are ever likely to find due to a recent visit by the King provided my driving partner Jimmy with an ideal opporunity to take in some mint tea and what was to be my staple diet for the rest of the trip, pankakes, olive oil and honey...very good for you by the way.

The amazingly clean City of Ouarzazate

From there it was down all the way to the flat plains leading to Zagora the last real city heading south before arriving in Tamegroute on the edge of the Desert where we would deliver our cargo of computers donated from Malaga.

The last Tarmac for several thousand km
, Tamegroute, the start of the Sahara Desert and hotter things to come.

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