today is a day trip around the Anti Atlas, but the day is overcast and rain threatening, we set off regardless, and are again soon climbing the Anti Atlas mountains, we pass a number of the goat farmers but there is not much feed on the ground for them, so they eat the leaves from the trees.
The land on this side of the mountains is sparsely covered with the same shrubby tree that the goats eat, but not much else.
as we climb into the mountains the rain showers start, just enough to make us and the roads wet, and this continues on and off all day, but this is not all the temp drops to below 3 deg and I'm sure that some of the rain was hail.
We stopped for lunch at Tizourgane Kasbah which is a restored hill top kasbah that you see in the photo's a lot of work has gone into restoring what was once a ruin and is now a tourist draw card and is the centre here for adventure climbers who pit their skills against the local mountains near here.
onwards we go back into the cold and rain, but fortunately I have wet weather gear to keep me warm and dry. I taped my boots with some duct tape and they lasted today, and bought some other local tape and have covered both boots, hopefully they will hold up for the next few days then I will throw them away.
one of the riders had a puncture on the way back and we limped the last 20 kms back to the hotel pumping it up as we went.
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