For this post I am showing the second part of the trip through Morocco where we went into the Atlas Mountains via Dades Gorge and Todra Gorge.
This next scene shows the Land Rover on the unmade road where we stopped to admire the view. Striking were the few buildings scattered through the scenery.
As you might expect, we camped wherever it was convenient:
Further up I decided to ride on the roof rack; the views of the gorge were just amazing. For the next photo of Dades Gorge I wrote about it in my post of 31st May 2025 in response to someone posting a very similar, modern view: https://www.pmstudios.co.uk/blog/?p=9495 – this is what gave me the inspiration to write about the trip 50 years ago
The next photo is where we stopped for lunch high up into the mountains. This was the quietest place I had ever experienced, even now I still remember this quite vividly. With nobody talking you just couldn’t hear a thing, not even the wind:
But on the track crossing from Dades Gorge to Todra Gorge we had a big problem. On the Land Rover, the nuts on the U-bolts that hold the axle to the suspension had worked loose and the U-bolts had straightened out – They couldn’t have been tightened correctly when we had some work done on the springs. These were not in our spares kit – what should we do?
Serendipity or good fortune: another Land Rover came in the opposite direction driven by a kind Frenchman. He stopped to ask what the problem was then gave us 2 spare U-bolts and a set of nuts that he was carrying. Such generosity:
We journeyed on to Todra Gorge camping near a hotel:
The following photo was also taken at Todra Gorge, possibly further down from the hotel:
When we stopped at the roadside, boys would come (out of nowhere!) to beg or sell us something:
The Atlas Mountains were a wonderful diversion off the main road which would then take us on the the Sahara Desert…