[Yarkand]

Thanks for the nice stories and pics

[limegreenlimey]

My tips: stay at pension Znika (ask for directions from the main square), run by the lovely Nordin. 100% a smokers place but clean, well looked after, hot showers etc Eat - away from the main square. Restarant Chefchaoen on the other side of the kasbah from the main square is worth a visit. If you want an expensive, fancy meal, Casa Hassan is good.

The best hash is neither in Chefchaoen (tourism) nor in Ketama (wholesale). The villages in between are a better bet for quality. Try Bab Taza or Achifane ; you can get a bus to Bab Taza from Chefchaoen easily. Quality at a price in Chefchaoen - certainly don't buy the first stuff you're offered, ask for better. And beware the junkies

Excursions: Akchour and the Devil's bridge/the Parc Talassemtane worth seeign for natural beauty ; the nearest good beach is at Oued Laou (plenty of cheap places to stay there out of season). The coast east from Oued Laou is full of hashy villages! - all the way to Al Hoceima

Buy: wool. Anything wool. The quality is excellent, if you like such things.

[dubindam36]

Originally Posted by limegreenlimey

My tips: stay at pension Znika (ask for directions from the main square), run by the lovely Nordin. 100% a smokers place but clean, well looked after, hot showers etc Eat - away from the main square. Restarant Chefchaoen on the other side of the kasbah from the main square is worth a visit. If you want an expensive, fancy meal, Casa Hassan is good.

The best hash is neither in Chefchaoen (tourism) nor in Ketama (wholesale). The villages in between are a better bet for quality. Try Bab Taza or Achifane ; you can get a bus to Bab Taza from Chefchaoen easily. Quality at a price in Chefchaoen - certainly don't buy the first stuff you're offered, ask for better. And beware the junkies

Excursions: Akchour and the Devil's bridge/the Parc Talassemtane worth seeign for natural beauty ; the nearest good beach is at Oued Laou (plenty of cheap places to stay there out of season). The coast east from Oued Laou is full of hashy villages! - all the way to Al Hoceima

Buy: wool. Anything wool. The quality is excellent, if you like such things.

hi man.can i ask u about the villages between oued laou and al hoceima can u name some of them?

[limegreenlimey]

Targha and Stehat. Targha has a campsite on the beach. under the rocks. Good swimming there. Doesn't warm up til end-April/May though - this side of the straights of Gib get the cold water coming in from the Atlantic. Jebha has a couple of proper guest houses and a little fishing port. Don't expect it to be geared up for tourists (unlike Chefchaoen). Until they improved this cost road, very few people at all came down this way (kind of stopped at Oued Laou, where there is a hotel and lots of self catering accommodation). July/August Oued Laou gets busy. The rest of the year it's dead quiet. Most attractive way of getting there is to drive down the Gorge de Oued Laou from just west of Chefchaoen. The gorge is really beautiful and you can stay at a guest house at the turning off for Achtour. Turn east just before Oued Laou (just beyond the Es Sebt market outside Oued Lauo) for Targha. Don't bet on the road form Jebha to Ketama to be passable unless you have a 4x4 but if you can take it, makes a good round trip back through the Rif to Chefchaoen. Nice people, stunning views. Be careful about accepting invitations to visit people's farms: get settled first and venture out with minimal kit and cash else you may be aggressively pressured to buy kilos of hash and then possibly arrested. Take E50 and a crap camera. If it gets hairy, well, you aint got much to lose. Bear in mind that while mostly very nice and friendly, the people up here are mostly poorly educated with, well, ill-informed views about Islam vs Western politics (and some very odd theories), they are desperately poor, have few prospects and little work so, basically, have only their hash and their families. Be respectful and watch yourself.

[dubindam36]

Originally Posted by limegreenlimey

Targha and Stehat. Targha has a campsite on the beach. under the rocks. Good swimming there. Doesn't warm up til end-April/May though - this side of the straights of Gib get the cold water coming in from the Atlantic. Jebha has a couple of proper guest houses and a little fishing port. Don't expect it to be geared up for tourists (unlike Chefchaoen). Until they improved this cost road, very few people at all came down this way (kind of stopped at Oued Laou, where there is a hotel and lots of self catering accommodation). July/August Oued Laou gets busy. The rest of the year it's dead quiet. Most attractive way of getting there is to drive down the Gorge de Oued Laou from just west of Chefchaoen. The gorge is really beautiful and you can stay at a guest house at the turning off for Achtour. Turn east just before Oued Laou (just beyond the Es Sebt market outside Oued Lauo) for Targha. Don't bet on the road form Jebha to Ketama to be passable unless you have a 4x4 but if you can take it, makes a good round trip back through the Rif to Chefchaoen. Nice people, stunning views. Be careful about accepting invitations to visit people's farms: get settled first and venture out with minimal kit and cash else you may be aggressively pressured to buy kilos of hash and then possibly arrested. Take E50 and a crap camera. If it gets hairy, well, you aint got much to lose. Bear in mind that while mostly very nice and friendly, the people up here are mostly poorly educated with, well, ill-informed views about Islam vs Western politics (and some very odd theories), they are desperately poor, have few prospects and little work so, basically, have only their hash and their families. Be respectful and watch yourself.

[tjo]

hello again fellas!
this trip was amazing..the hotel i stayed,the hash i smoked,my friends..And aucource the village..
this time i saw many things,i walked a lot and i made some friends(lol)
i bought a nice almost white moroccan and the same mex that i found the other time...
amazing place with amazing peoples(if you find the good ones)

[paulo73]

Man, i really miss Morocco :(
Thanks again tjo.
May we share tea&smoke under a fig tree someday, somewhere in Morocco

[azad]

Great pics!!..Id be well at home there..Drop by anytime guys lol ..respect.