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Dinner in Boujdour

Post author:andras
Post published:October 29, 2022 1:18 am
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Bring your own is the name of the game in Morocco if you want to have a nice grill dinner. You buy your meat from the butcher, the vegetables and the bread from the shops next door, and let it prepare nearby on the grill.

We wanted camel meat and searched for a butcher displaying a camel’s foot to advertise the delicacy.

Our butcher saw that we haven’t eaten any hot meal for days and suggested one kilo of ground camel meat with some extra fat to make it even tastier.

We brought some onions and cucumbers and fresh baguette from the bakery.

and asked the restaurant around the corner to prepare the meat.

Ten minutes later we had the most delicious meal you can imagine.

And by the way: it was pretty hot today

Post author:andras
Post published:October 28, 2022 8:21 pm
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Stage 5: Icht – Dakhla

Post author:andras
Post published:October 28, 2022 8:14 pm
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No, we haven’t arrived yet, but Laci is driving with Lackó navigating, and I have time to summarize the first day of a two day marathon stage.

We spent the night at Borj Biramane in Icht, I still rembered the place from our visit in 2013, and again it was very nice with showers and toilets (and a restaurant for all those arriving in time).

We atarted the day with a long offroad section in the desert, which is flat and rocky here. We had to find a well and measure it’s diameter

the size of a tire

and ice cold beer

which turned out to be far away.

You can easily do a 100km/h here, but it is equally easy to roll over the car if you miss a ditch or turn the steering wheel abruptly.

After the bumpy stones the perfectly flat surface of a dry salt lake was a welcome change and we enjoyed driving there a lot.

That was the last one of the offroad sections in Morocco, in Western Sahara the Moroccan army does not allow us to leave the tarmac road anymore.

We are now heading to Boujdour and plan to have dinner there (something real, not just bread and liver spread with water), and will probably continue to Dakhla and finish the two day stage early in the morning already.