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angiebabe Says: Centred around the enormous number of dates grown around here, being one of the biggest - if not the biggest - palmeraie in Morocco stretching from Er Rachidia down to Rissani, this festival is timed with the harvesting time for dates.This was the first time that Ive been in...
angiebabe Says: if you have to stay in a town well Rissani is the choice - its the historical town/city for the sahara in that area, the major city for the caravan routes that went down through there - there are things to see in Rissani such as the souks which are rather specifically things...
TheLongTone Says: The sand dunes of Merzouga are one of the stars of the Moroccan tourist circuit.Most tour groups use Erfoud rather than Rissani as the staging post before Megouza: it has the necessary restaurants and hotels. Trips by Landrover can easily be arrranged, many leaving at a...
TheLongTone Says: Two or three kilometres southeast of town, thie fort is still used by the army so the very top of the hill is, frustratingly, off-limits.
zrim Says: It is about a 45 minute drive by four wheel drive from the hotel in Erfoud to the Saharan dunes. The drivers let you out and point you eastward. You can be lazy and take a camel across the dunes or you can set off on foot. We chose to hoof it. There is no danger of getting...
Take Only Pictures, leave Only Footprints
zrim Says: Ok. Ok. It's not really possible to take much of anything from the Sahara. But still, words of wisdom to live by when visiting any fragile ecosystem. The Sahara is spectacularly beautiful in its starkness, but we would not want to have the whole world to be this barren.
johnsakura Says: You have to go where locas go to have mint tea. Talk to some and always answer their smiles with a smile back. That's not going to hurt you!This guy just stared at me for almost 1 hour.
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You can have all sorts of moroccan dishes from Tajines to Harera, Tanjia, salads etc.
Be sure not to pay more than 35 or 40 dirhams for a tajine. usualy is 25 but it some times depends.
Be sure if you're a vegetarian and if you ask for a vegetarian tajine to say 100 times that you don't even want the taste of meat in you plate, cos they'll just take the meat out and let the sauce in.
Written Jun 7, 2003
Address: Main Square Erfoud
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Erfoud is pretty quiet. I have to say that there did not seem to be any group tours around during my short stay - all the tourist restaurants at the bottom of Av Mohammed V were quiet or dead -
The place shuts down fairly early, with the busy cafe of the Hotel Mergouza empty and closing up by eleven. At one in the morning I went up to the roof of my hotel to have a smoke and look at the rising moon. The quiet was absolute, the silence deep enough for me to be able to hear the clicking of an unseen dog's claws as it ran acoss along the pavement.
Written Oct 20, 2006
TheLongTone Says: Erfoud is well served by long-distance buses. The private ones leave from the main sguare, where the ticket office can be found. CTM ticket office & departures are on Bvd Mohammed VGrandes Taxis depart from the square. This is probably the best way to move on to Rissani.
zrim Says: Its a soft, yet bumpy ride from Erfoud to the Saharan dunes. Noting but sand. The road peters out by and by. The drivers pick their way through the sand dunes while keeping the wheels moving. Don't want to get bogged down in the sand and have to push out. We were in a convey...
johnsakura Says: Taxi are here like flies. If you need one you'll not have a problem. Some people pay to go to Marrakesh (750km), with this big bush cabs. They pay more than going by bus but if divided by 4 its much easier, faster and safe.
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The main stores selling stone articles, fossils & decorative minerals are strung out along the main road from Er Rachidia to Rissani.
Smaller workshops can be found South of town - on the road that leads over the Ziz towards Burj Est, The same stuff but cheaper.
Updated Oct 20, 2006
hat53 Says: The people are friendly and you are easily invited for tea. This can be in a shop or with people at home or at the street.It is a great way the make contact and learn about the country.We the owners of the shop, who were killing time, waiting for customers.
johnsakura Says: If you by any chance see a funeral get away from the people. Usualy they don't like foreigners watching them going to the cemitery. They get mad if they see making pictures of it.
The way to Merzouga is not the piste road....
angiebabe Says: Im still reading here and there, and noticed it showing still on the new edition of the Michelin map, of which I have always recommended as the best map for the roads around Morocco, that the main road to Merzouga and therefore the desert dunes and so on as being direct from...
Don't expect great photography from the Tauregs
zrim Says: Our Taureg dune guide was very cheerful and really eager to please. He was insistent that he take our photograph. I handed over the camera and later found out that I had been cut off at mid forehead. Oh well, that's ok. I know what I look like and don't need to have pictures...
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If you thing that the desert is a lonnely place with sand, hot and camels... you are wrong!
It is crouded, lots of people, mostly turists, and of course locals.
Unique Suggestions: If you must, go, but take some money with you, because you will find locals asking you to
Written Dec 30, 2004
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Over there, on the far side of that big dune, lies Algeria. Just a couple miles from where we watched the sunrise. I'd love to be able to paint Algeria blue on my world vt map, but unless I physically cross the border, it doesn't count, does it? If I understood our Taureg correctly, his encampment was in a small oasis in Algeria. Tauregs roam the Sahara with little regard for national boundaries.
Written Feb 1, 2005
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Favorite thing: This is the place where all the actions goes in Erfoud. If you need a cab it's here, if you need a bus its here, I mean everything. Bus tickets, groceries, food, etc...
Written Jun 7, 2003
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This is the city I now live and work. Erfoud is the last city before the desert if you come from Errachidia. It's a big city for desert standards. You'll problably get a guide if you go to Erfoud,...
The small enclave of Erfoud is in the far reaches of eastern Morocco. It is a day's drive from either Fez or Marrakesh. The main reason to travel all the way to Erfoud is to visit the Sahara Desert....
Erfoud is largely a French colonial creation, the administrative centre fot the Tafilalt. It borders the main road South from Er Rachidia , which proceeds on via Rissani/Sijilmassa to swing...
Not really a lot here but ATMs, service station...
Main centre for banks - before the town of Rissani did get an ATM installed, which even when it did it was usually out of action...., Erfoud was the nearest money access for the whole area - we would...
Erfoud is a great place for a daytrip t the dunes of Merzouga, Erg Chebbi. When went there in tha afternoon to see the sun set over the dune. It is an amazing experience. We arrived early so we saw......
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