Day 11 Tiznit

We spent the morning back round the souks haggling for a couple of candle holders to add to our couple of nineteen twenties posters then a wander round the Kasbah taking a load of photos before returning to the embassy to collect our successful applications for our Mauritanian visas in the afternoon. Spoke to Dan from one of the teams and he said that we may meet in Dakla on the sixth. From their we were back in the Jeep the three and a half hours to Marrakech and a night at a quiet Riad Bledna on the outskirts about twenty minutes outside of town that Nora found in the lonely planet. Mohammed came into town to meet us and lead us back. There were two other couples staying and after a chat we tucked into a good spicy soup with sweet bread and a lamb and vegetable dinner. We stayed up chatting to Mohammed and a nice bloke from Plymouth who was there on his honeymoon before his wedding because the paperwork got messed up meaning that they couldn't get married before they came! With a later than planned start today we drove the hair raising drive over the single track pass to Tizi n Test. Once back down out of the mountains we headed to the beach in Agadir just in time for the sunset then drove an hour or so down the road to the Idou Hotel in Tiznit. We haven't done much milage today and this means we have to have a big punch tomorrow to get back on track. Hopefully we will get close to Dakla tomorrow night.