Riding unknown territory by night is not my cup of tea...
I know what you mean but actually east Maroc is not as busy as the west and even then it's no drama - no worse than Spain.
Last time I left Beni Enzar at 18.00 and rode as far as here:
Taourirt (100km south of Nador)
Roadside Aire de Repose: N34° 24.56' W02°57.28'
A new complex on the N19/N6 junction about 50km east of Guercif. Adds up to a resto, Comarit booking office, clean ablutions and a friendly guard plus free camping round the back on grass. Handy place to head for off the evening boat but pretty noisy with trucks and trains shunting along the new railway branch line up to Nador.
Free
You will get there before 8, have a nice Orangina and brochettes frites (BYO mayo) and go to sleep with some ear plugs.
I would describe the Cirque as an amphitheatre or head of a valley below the snowy Jebel Ayachi. Out of Midelt you drive over a 2260-m pass (KM26.5) and down into the deep valley on slow, narrow tracks, crossing a stream or two. At the bottom meet the kids then head up out the other side through the trees. At a junction KM48.5 (for us 2.5 hrs drive from Midelt) you can return to Midelt. This is the "Cirque de Jaffar 'circuit'"; an easy 4x4 day out in normal weather. Or carry on 130 KM to Imilchil, a route much discussed in other posts.
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