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My first week in Morocco – by van

January 10, 2016 by Mike 3 Comments

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I got to Morocco on Christmas day. Also a full moon…

See my other post on How to get from Spain to Morocco by campervan – in 4 steps

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My first wild camping experience

I found a place by the coast. Police knocked on the van asking me for 35 euros and, from what I could work out, to spend a night in the station – ‘venir avec moi’ and ‘la station’. Whilst they discussed something between them I started the engine and said I’m leaving. They drove in front of me with their blue lights flashing for 3 miles and then waved me on. I’m totally confused but I’m glad I drove away.

Since then I’ve asked every police officer, local person and traveller if it’s OK to sleep in my van and they say it’s no problem at all. So I think If Police do this, driving away is the right thing to do. No worries.

But I forgot… I don’t have a map of Morocco

My plan was to go through the Rif Mountains via Chefchaouen and to Fez but I’ll just do this on the way back up – with the map that I now have. I had 3 days to get to Marrakech to meet my family so I took the coastal road south – a bit easier to navigate without a map.

I took this route

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Morocco. It takes at least a week to settle in

Most of Europe is the same. You don’t really need much time to settle in and you don’t really need much time to work out ‘how things work round here’.

But the difference going from Spain to Morocco is big. That was what always attracted me to Morocco – a completely different experience to Europe for a 90 minute ferry ride. I’ve been spending the past week just taking it in, observing and getting completely distracted by all this stuff I’ve never ever seen before.

So enjoy the journey through Morocco with me… and maybe I’ll meet some of you here.

Please feel free to share tips and places to go in the comments below.

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  1. Robin Raindropcatcher says

    January 15, 2016 at 7:50 pm

    I’m envious. I was SO close to getting a ferry ticket last year. If I had only had the money for it back then… But I’ll definitely go for it some time soon 🙂

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  2. Simone says

    January 26, 2016 at 10:06 pm

    It sounds like you got off to an interesting start! I really expect Morocco to be as different as it was when I arrived. It was as though I had walked onto an Arabian Night set when we arrived in Marrakech! I would love to go back and spend some more time there 🙂

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  3. Craig Snyders says

    February 22, 2016 at 11:02 pm

    Would be good to know relative costs of things while you’re out there, compared to Spain? Campsites, food, petrol etc

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