How people live. Atar
December 10, 2025 in Mauritania ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Atar is a dust bowl in a state of chaos. Tiny houses, families living on the floor with goats running in between the rubbish piles, Tiny stalls all selling the same few goods. 50year old MercedesRead more
Ben Amira and Aischa
December 7, 2025 in Mauritania ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Our route follows the train line through the dunes to the two world leading Monoliths Ben Amira and Aicha.
Legend tells, many years ago Ben Amira married his beloved Aischa and they received twoRead more
Thundering Dragon! The Iron ore train.
December 3, 2025 in Mauritania ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
About 50% of Mauritania's GDP stems from one Iron ore mine in the Sahara in Zouerat. An infamous 2km long train transports the ore through the desert to Nouadibou for shipment. Dunes block the tracks,Read more
Mauritania, This is where Africa begins.
November 30, 2025 in Mauritania ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
At last tha long drive through the west Sahara is behind us, and we spend our last night on a parking spot directly at the border. It is also time to get rid of all drugs and alcohol, unless we feelRead more
An "OASIS" in Daklah
November 25, 2025 in Morocco ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
Daklah is the southern most town of Marocco before the Mauritanian border and known for it's incredible Kite surfing winds in summer.
It is being developed at hair-raising speed by the MaroccanRead more
On to Daklah
November 20, 2025 in Morocco ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
Today we head to the Houi en Naam 100km off the road to Daklah.
The water flowing here is absolutely salty and undrinkable, but there are wild donkeys here that seem to survive.
The return trip takesRead more
Our first dune experience
November 19, 2025 in Morocco ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Today we had our first "dune" experience.
While following a track for about 100km things got sandier and sandier, until We found ourselves more and more confronted with dunes blocking our path.Read more
Fort Bou Jerif, more and more sand
November 17, 2025 in Morocco ⋅ 🌙 18 °C
We are now heading further and further south through the west Sahara and spend the night at Fort Bou Jerif and the impossible happens, it rains all night with waves of showers several times during theRead more
The Atlantic, at last!
November 13, 2025 in Morocco ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
We have been driving through high mountains for two months now. What a joy to now reach the Atlantic in Mir left, a previous hippie town which today give it a bit of western flair. Beautiful houses,Read more
Climbing the Jebel l'Kest
November 12, 2025 in Morocco ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
In the Anti atlas near Tafraoute lies the Aammeln Valley. In the years of draught in the 70ties, most families sent at least one child to France. Money which came back led to most families buildingRead more
Agadir Tasguent, the bank of the Berber
November 11, 2025 in Morocco ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Around 1000AD the Berber kingdom spanned the whole of north western Africa, and was led by a wise, warrior Queen, around whom whole legends are woven. These Berbers already had a system of banks,Read more
Lac Ifni, 2600m and VERY COLD!
November 9, 2025 in Morocco ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
"Lac Ifni" is on the back end of the Jebel Toubkal, , at 2600 meters. We hiked up to the lake and jumped in. And we jumped out as fast as we had jumped in! It was REALLY COLD!
The king of Marocco comes by
November 8, 2025 in Morocco ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
What an exciting day today, and an exercise in total trust!
Elfi drove one of the most beautiful mountain tracks I have ever encountered today. Hardly more than 2 meters wide, Vertical drop offs andRead more
Sprinti threatens to slide into a gully!
November 1, 2025 in Morocco ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
The Sahro mountains
October 28, 2025 in Morocco ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
One week in the Sahro Mountains, what an incredible experience! Crazy rock formations, and wild off-road tracks with abandoned copper mines.
The road of the Kaspah's, Quarzazate
October 27, 2025 in Morocco ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Kaspah's were the previous palaces of wealthy families. In the past they were made of stamped-mud bricks. Today most have been abandoned and are slowly eroding away.
But most faszinating was BenRead more
Okaimeden - Mohammed Cous Cous
October 26, 2025 in Morocco ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
On our second evening, when returning from our climb I bumped into Mohammed Couscous who was walking back to his village after an unsucessful day of trying to sell a few fossils to the three touristsRead more
Goodbye Marrakesh, on to Okaimeden
October 26, 2025 in Morocco ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C
The last thing I would expect to find in Marocco is a ski resort, and yet,
Okaimeden is just that, a ski resort!
The village, at 2609m is full of chalets and typical french ski resort hotels.Read more
Marrakesh 4
October 22, 2025 in Morocco ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Right next door to Hassan Fessie making brass lamps, in the same back yard complex, were three guys producing mosaik tables in a workshop no bigger than 10m2. The Mosaics were chiseled out of clayRead more
Marrakesh 3
October 21, 2025 in Morocco ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
More Marrakesh
October 20, 2025 in Morocco ⋅ 🌙 28 °C
Marrakesh, an insane boiling pot.
October 20, 2025 in Morocco ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
Marrakesh is a mirror our arrival at our our Riad in town, (riad = traditional Maroccan town house) .
We walked through narrow, dirty, incredibly loud, stinking ally ways at 35deg. with hootingRead more
Kasbah Bab Ourika
October 19, 2025 in Morocco ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
While preparing for this trip in Germany Elfi and I watched a film on Netflix called "Love in Marocco". It was absolutely terrible, but parts of it were filmed in an incredibly beautiful Kasbah, todayRead more
Cascades d'Ouzoud, major negotiations!
October 17, 2025 in Morocco ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
On the way to Marrakesh we passed the cascades d'ouzoud. A 100 meter waterfall that used to transport huge quantities of water is today just a memory of the past.
Obviously it is overrun by tourists,Read more
Road construction as development aid.
October 17, 2025 in Morocco ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
The Riff mountains, as well as the central-, and high-Atlas mountains are home to the Berber tribes. We have experienced this region as one of extreme poverty, with people sometimes totally desperate,Read more
Crossing the Col de Tizi N'Ait Hmed pass
October 16, 2025 in Morocco ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C







































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































