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0283. End of the Road Village (Mor 116--new)

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Six months into my new Morocco life, I feel I’ve just got to take a break and try something different. I head south WAY south—overland all the way across the Sahara desert through Mauritania, Senegal and Gambia to discover the joys and perils of playing street music in sub-Saharan Africa. Then I return to Morocco to discover another 100+ towns…

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0283. End of the Road Village (Mor 116--new)

January 28, 2009

It's fun to visit an "end of the road village", and El Hammam definitely qualifies as one. Very little traffic on the one lane, potholed road heading that direction. And after El Hammam there's nothing but untamed forest...

A friendly high school student seems quite happy that a foreigner is coming to visit his little town. He fills me in a bit on the history of El Hammam and the best places to get a good view of the countryside. Despite its very small size, it has a very clear French influence with some beautiful French mountain homes...

Up the steep hillside a bit further, the solid stone homes turn into little shanties... then there's a spring... and then just trees and goatherders... I have a nice view of the region, but I decide to keep going all the way to the top of the hill.

Definitely worth the climb. From this hilltop I get a view not only of El Hammam and the Mrirt plateau, but also of the wild hills beyond El Hammam--with a couple little wheatfield tucked in the valleys... A very nice place to rest and ponder...