Hidden Morocco routes

[Tim Cullis]

HIDDEN MOROCCO - NORTHERN ROUTES
I've been promising this for several people for ages, so apologies for the extremely late delivery. It comes from a talk I did last year at Horizons Unlimited on 'Hidden Morocco'. My objective in giving the talk was to encourage people to get off the main red 'N' roads and try the less-travelled roads. Often these end up faster than the red route.

I'm one of the many contributors to Olaf's Maroc Topo project, and to increase the coverage of the map I tend to deliberately ride roads that are not on the GPS map (and often not on Michelin 742 either) and log not just the route but the road numbers, names of towns, fuel stations in remote areas, and so forth. Sometimes this exploration ends with a U-turn, but generally it results in excellent roads with no traffic and great scenery.

Olaf has been tied up completing his doctorate so hasn't updated Maroc Topo for a while, so consider this a mini-update covering the north of the country (down as far as Khénifra). It's about one-third of my northern area update logs but a lot of them are city roads and less interesting than the ones I've chosen to include.

The file is in .gpx format. RIGHT CLICK and save target as to save on your PC. After the download make sure the suffix is .gpx, then open it in Mapsource.

I'll post notes below as I get round to them.

Tim