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Forgot I had taken a snap....
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Nice snap

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Forgot I had taken a snap....
Oh dear, never mind,
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the great deeds of mice and men are as nothing to the power of nature.


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Just seen advertised on Amazon

"100 Things to Do in Tazenakht In the Rain" by Chris Scott, Preorder, release date TBC

Looks pretty bad hope you all get on your way............somewhere soon
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We tried to drive from Marrakech to Ait Benhaddou today, but the police turned us back by Ait-Ourir. They indicated that it could take 2-3 days before the road is opened back up again. Since I don't speak French, I'm not sure quite how long he meant, but he seemed to say that tomorrow was definitely off the table, but who knows?
The forecast for tomorrow is promising a lot of rain in the Marrakech area and I don't know what that means for the roads going south or west.
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Latest from Taz now puts our hope in the road north via Gas Haven - tomorrow inch allah. Makes sense to work on this one as it's a key road to the west. An expectant queue of vehicles at what now has revealed itself to be a bridge, not a ford. Tho I learned that Taliouine bridge was out or inundated so in fact Taz has been cut off in all directions.

Forecast shows three days of sunshine coming up for Zagora. The weather north of the Atlas is another matter, afaik

Next on the wish list is opening the Tichka road by Friday morning. That should be doable from what FV says.

Got some nice mini carpets from the ever chummy bloke at Tapis Berbere, as mentioned in the book.
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Road west from Tazenakht is closed at Taliouine due to a bridge failure. It gives me no confidence that I rode over this a few weeks back after the last lot of flooding.



And a nice rescue near Tinerhir.

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Sunny morning in Taz but the road is still closed north the Ozt. Surely today.
Last night we met some guys to came from Marrakech that day via the Test pass in a Renault. So Tali bridge must be open or somehow navigable? But they said they only just made it.

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