We spent four nights on the Mhamid- Foum Zguid stretch. The first was about 50 km out of Mhamid on the east side (a little towards the Algerian border) (PLEASE CHECK POSTS BELOW - I WASNt'T GOOD ON DIRECTIONS HERE!) in some nice low dunes in the river bed near a well. We left the main M-FG piste quite early on and roamed through the hilly region east of the piste ending up in a wide river bed with lovely dunes. We spent another couple of nights near Erg Chegaga (a bit further on and about 30 km east of the main M-FG piste). Erg Chagaga is a nice alternative to the main erg that everyone goes to in Maroc. The final night was after the big dry lake bed and about 5km off piste up a river valley to the west of the piste. There were many such alternatives and there was nothing special about this one, just that it was 'off-piste' and pretty country. These four nights were the best country we covered in Maroc. We wanted to do the same on the FG-tata stretch, but ended up driving the tar road and not finding much opportunity to leave.
Last edited by Richard Washington; 28 May 2008 at 21:33.
Reason: pointing out some errors that are fixed in later posts
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