Marrakech – Erg Lamhazil

The stage of Wednesday covered the crossing of the High Atlas (~0.5m of fresh snow), lots of offroad driving, and a camp in the dunes.
That wasn’t challenging enough for us, we added two special events:

1. Sliding off the muddy road in the Atlas, paving the forest with sand ladders and stones and pulling the car back. With the help of 5 Moroccan men it took us 5 hours to escape.

this is too slippery

2. Losing the front right bumper of our car. A cattle transporter which we passed suddenly pulled to the left and crashed into our front wing. Fortunately the only damage is the front bumper.

Such a cattle transporter tore off our bumper when we tried to pass it
Snowfall in the Atlas (which we never managed to see in daylight yet)

Tonight’s camp is beautifully located in the dunes. The others say there was some nice food prepared by local Berbers in the evening, of course we missed it because of our adventures with the car. Its 3:45am again, time to go to sleep.

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