Morocco Jan18

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Hi we are heading to Morocco for January. Any advice? Anyone else going the be touring round there?

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Thanks for the replies. Has anyone managed to find LPG in Morocco??

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Thanks for the replies. Has anyone managed to find LPG in Morocco??

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We have a refillable gas bottle which holds 21.6 litres (27 litre capacity filled to 80%). We use just under 0.5 litres per day on average with 'fridge when we are parked and cooking - no heating or hot water. So we were ok for our 24 night Morocco trip. We were in campsites every 4 days or so and showered then.

Talking to people we met, one guy had been there for 90 days, an option is to buy a Moroccan bottle and a burner to fit on top and cook outside. This avoids putting the allegedly dirty gas into your onboard appliances.
 
Abiteachuck said:
Once went to Tangiers,,,,, NERER again
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Much better after the 10th time, by then you'll have lost the nervous twitch in
your eye that singles you out as a rookie, and ripe for the plucking!
I've known quite a few first (and last time)people disembark the ferry
get no further than the port touts, turn around and get the next ferry/hydrofoil
back to Algeciras or Tarifa!
In a M/home you can get quickly through and past Tangier into Morocco proper,
Pity to be put off by Tangier, it isn't really typical Morocco.
 
Thanks all. What a great site with great people willing to advise 😊
 
Michelin map 969 especially if going off the beaten track.

Gas, pick up a Spanish bottle at a boot sale or sometimes a word
with a home delivery driver will get you one they often cruise
the more popular wild camps as and when. If you run out in Maroc
a well known depot north Agadir will refill. The most easily available gas
is the Camping Gas exchange very cheap only 2.5kg? In the 907 but a couple of
bottles may get you by.
Ferry tickets from Carlos (Voyages Normandie) near Carrefour at Palmones near Algeciras €200 varies a bit for 2 + any length m/h.
I prefer the Algeciras crossing to the Ceuta, can be more hassle @ Ceuta, you are
in Spain of course and there are frequent migrant flare ups on the frontier.
Deal with passport control and import paperwork (Carlos will provide the papers) on board the ferry saves hanging around at the dockside and avoids the touts...hopefully.
 
Will be going over in Jan our 5th time we usually do the full three months and return in April, as far as refilling gas weve never had any luck in finding, but we buy the large moroccan bottles cost €4 to refill and back feed thru my BBQ point I bought a morrocan regulator and do it that way, try get the red afrique gas bottles although its all butane it seems cleaner, wilding is easier further south along the coast and towards the interior in the Draa valley and all along the cliffs past Tan Tan in the spanish saharah to layounne ,
Now that Tagazoute is no longer Tafroute is the popular place to end up
If you want any other advise please ask
Marc and Sam
 
We went to Morocco for 4 weeks in Jan 2014 (2 weeks getting there through the west side of France, Portugal and into Spain, 2 weeks getting back via the east side of Spain and into France) – we had a great time - this was our experience then.
You will need to carry snow chains to travel through the Pyrenes and some high passes in Morocco if there is snow forecast; although we avoided the snow so didn’t need them, a couple we met up with later on had been snowed in on one of the Moroccan passes the day after we went through, and had had to use theirs.
We parked overnight in Lidl, N-340, Algeciras, Spain (lots of Motorhomes parking there) - and did a large shop before we left (the ferry ticket office is on the other side of the road)
We have two 11Kg autogas – I forget where, but we were able to fill up in Spain before we left and this lasted us our trip
There was a v long queue for ferry tickets – 20,000 French motorhomes go to Morocco in January, but don’t worry they park like sardines along the coast!
The people were very friendly. The roads were brilliant. Campsites when you need them ok.
As well as all the usual tourist attractions, in Marrakech & Fes etc the Hassam II Mosque or Grande Mosquée Hassan II in Casablanca was stunning and well worth the entrance fee.
We went to Merzouga (a small Moroccan town in the Sahara Desert, near the Algerian border) which was not as touristy as some of the other Saharan villages.
The coast was packed with sun-worshippers, but as we;re not one of them it didn’t bother us and we were able to find a space to park for the few days we were there.
Generally a great time – enjoy yourselves.
 
horshamjack said:
Will be going over in Jan our 5th time we usually do the full three months and return in April, as far as refilling gas weve never had any luck in finding, but we buy the large moroccan bottles cost €4 to refill and back feed thru my BBQ point I bought a morrocan regulator and do it that way, try get the red afrique gas bottles although its all butane it seems cleaner, wilding is easier further south along the coast and towards the interior in the Draa valley and all along the cliffs past Tan Tan in the spanish saharah to layounne ,
Now that Tagazoute is no longer Tafroute is the popular place to end up
If you want any other advise please ask
Marc and Sam
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I've had the gas depot in north Agadir attempt a Calor gas 15kg refill they
didn't have the correct adaptor but tried anyway when I came to use the bottle
there was a high pressure blast of gas, the bottle spigot had been distorted
into an oval and didn't fit the regulator. Took the bottle back and they "distorted'
the spigot back to a circle, well more or less ! That's Morocco for you, they'll give it a go, H&S not so pervasive ;)
 
i prefer the ceuta crossing as if you want go back to ceuta for a couple days then you can go back to morocco for another 90 days .
i actually enjoy ceuta its full of life and the locals are ok.
i use Moroccan gas bottle but have had several other types including calor filled up at a few places over there . but local ones are much cheaper.
the coastal road from ceuta to tangiers is fantastic well worth doing . mind the med coastal roads to al hoceima etc are ok as well.
we always stay off the main roads the atlantic coast roads are real fun as well.
used to cross in october and stay over there for 6 months . great fun.
 
vwalan said:
i prefer the ceuta crossing as if you want go back to ceuta for a couple days then you can go back to morocco for another 90 days .
i actually enjoy ceuta its full of life and the locals are ok.
i use Moroccan gas bottle but have had several other types including calor filled up at a few places over there . but local ones are much cheaper.
the coastal road from ceuta to tangiers is fantastic well worth doing . mind the med coastal roads to al hoceima etc are ok as well.
we always stay off the main roads the atlantic coast roads are real fun as well.
used to cross in october and stay over there for 6 months . great fun.
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Personally id give Cueta a miss nowadays, as Alan has said is a vibrant town and if you wanted to stay in morocco longer but we drove past there two years ago and it was swarming with migrants
 
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I visited Morocco many years ago on and adventure tour (exodus.co.uk) a 3 week tour:nothingtoadd:

It was brilliant..reading these posts reminds me both of the trip and also our route.

I will detail the route in due course.. but really interesting posts
 
The truth is you've got to be alert in Morocco especially in the
cities and urban areas as you would in many places in the world.
There's a lot of unemployed young men given to finding ways
of parting tourists and travellers from their cash. A lot of people
mistake the overt friendliness with the real motivation.
True, the police crack down on persistent pesterers in tourist
areas, but they aren't everywhere.
A sizeable % of the population don't want contact with westerners,
and it might surprise some but Maroc is considered a 'conservative' Muslim
nation. It is or was loosening up a bit since the relatively new king has been in place.
 
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My Route with Exodus

Summer of 1992 3 weeks in a converted Army lorry with 14 others
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