Figuig Travel Guide

 TheLongTone Says:  JUST LOOKING OUT OVER FIGUIG Guide books mention 'La Platforme' in the ksar of Zenaga (the southernmost ksar, on the plain near the Algerian border) as a place to see the whole of Figuig from. I couldn't find this, nobody seemed to know about it & I would expect an elevated... 

 TheLongTone Says:  As far as I know this is one of only two hotels in Figuig (the other being a basic cold shower & squat toilets affair at the other end of the main drag)The Hotel Figuig offers nice clean rooms with good plumbing. I paid 100 dirham for my single en-suite. It is situated at... 

 TheLongTone Says:  Figuig is emphatically not a gastronome's destination. In fact, your choice is limited to the Hotel Figug and a handful of cafes. There weren't even any vendors of street food. The favorite cafe withe the locals seemed to be the Salon du The 'les Palmeries', at the top of... 

 TheLongTone Says:  Figuig can be reached by bus from Oujda or Er Rachidia, either way via Bouarfa, 100 or so km to the north. Some of the Oujda buses run all the way: others, and I think all the er Rachidia services, involve a change of bus at Bouarfa. Either way it's a day's travel,... 

 TheLongTone Says:  Figuig is not a shoppers paradise. The shops that line the main street sell all the basics (including film) but choice is limited. I did discover the cheapest and roughest of Moroccan cigarettes (Kasbah, cheaper even than Casa Sports) for the first time in Figug,... 

 TheLongTone Says:  The border with Algeria is closed: and although it's the subject of a treaty agreed in 1972, there are still issues and the border has never been formally delineated. There's nothing to tell you that you're approaching or crossing into Algeria. As the police checks on the... 

 TheLongTone Says:  There simply aren't enough tourists passing through to make trapping tourists an even half-way decent living, unless thee local scam artist was out of town for some reason, & so missed me. If it's hustlers you want, try Marrekesh.....