So sunday is when we leave!!
This is the trip:
We start by travelling south from Ceuta to Meknes and from there we cross the Atlas mountains and drop down to Tinerhir. A stunning drive through the black mountains will bring us to our first encounter with the Draa Valley at Tansikht. Following the valley, we stop at the massive palmery of Zagora for a well earned rest day. Continuing south and west via Mhamid we skirt the dunes of Chegaga before temporarily leaving the Draa at Tata to stock up on fuel & provisions. Dropping back down to the Draa, passing the small towns of Akka and Assa it will take us 2 days to cross the remote and largely uninhabited valley before emerging at our goal of Cap Draa near Tan Tan on the Atlantic coast. We now have 4 days to complete our journey in leisurely fashion taking us along most of the Moroccon Atlantic seaboard with its many picturesque fishing villages & resorts, including Essaouria where we have another rest day. On this Grand Transit all types of desert driving will be experienced: gravel plains, rocky hamada, salt lakes, sand dunes, river beds, mountain passes and canyons, and indeed part of the route was used by the 2004 Paris Dakar Rally.