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<blockquote data-quote="TimCullis" data-source="post: 256" data-attributes="member: 412"><p><strong>---------- DAY 2 continued ----------</strong></p><p></p><p>Back to the route... Retrace your steps back to the RN25 and turn right, probably signposted Demnate (pronounced Dem'enet). A few km past Tanant turn left (south) for Demnate. Carry on through Demnate on what is probably signposted RR307 to Imi n'Ifri which is at the junction of the RR302 which actually crosses the massive natural bridge. Imi is mouth, and Ifri is grotto, so this is the mouth of the grotto. Park up and walk down the wide steps at the northern end of the bridge. My short video...</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]OlEgmpaCOT8[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>And a longer video better showing the walk down</p><p></p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]z1H94poGsCE[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>You should pass through the entire bridge but keep a lookout behind you as at one point the opening forms a highly accurate map of Africa! There's another set of steps up at the southern end. Allow 40 minutes for this.</p><p></p><p>Passing back to Demnate, exit on the RR210 to Marrakech. This is a straight road which can be driven at higher speed than in the mountains, the scenery is pretty initially then becomes boring as you near Marrakech.</p><p></p><p>If you have time you could do a diversion to a geode mine. When you see the geode sellers by the side of the road, ignore the sparkly ones with very bright colours, these are made in someone's kitchen. And many years ago I learned to beware of amythyst as when I washed my specimen the purple dye ran off revealing plain quartz. But the real geodes that you see are not just picked up off in the countryside, they run in seams that have to be mined. This is a route to a mine that I saw grow over the decades from a single simple pit to huge openings extended hundreds of metres, all dug by hand.</p><p></p><p>So after passing Sidi Rahal, take a track to the left. Difficult to explain which track but you can see a building at the end. Turn left at the building then right and pass through the little village, you will then probably choose to park up where the track crosses a stream bed. Walk on another 500m and you will see a schoolhouse towards the right and climb up the rubble to the mine. There's a guy in the village who will sell geode samples.</p><p></p><p>And that's the end, back to the RR210 and into Marrakech.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TimCullis, post: 256, member: 412"] [B]---------- DAY 2 continued ----------[/B] Back to the route... Retrace your steps back to the RN25 and turn right, probably signposted Demnate (pronounced Dem'enet). A few km past Tanant turn left (south) for Demnate. Carry on through Demnate on what is probably signposted RR307 to Imi n'Ifri which is at the junction of the RR302 which actually crosses the massive natural bridge. Imi is mouth, and Ifri is grotto, so this is the mouth of the grotto. Park up and walk down the wide steps at the northern end of the bridge. My short video... [MEDIA=youtube]OlEgmpaCOT8[/MEDIA] And a longer video better showing the walk down [MEDIA=youtube]z1H94poGsCE[/MEDIA] You should pass through the entire bridge but keep a lookout behind you as at one point the opening forms a highly accurate map of Africa! There's another set of steps up at the southern end. Allow 40 minutes for this. Passing back to Demnate, exit on the RR210 to Marrakech. This is a straight road which can be driven at higher speed than in the mountains, the scenery is pretty initially then becomes boring as you near Marrakech. If you have time you could do a diversion to a geode mine. When you see the geode sellers by the side of the road, ignore the sparkly ones with very bright colours, these are made in someone's kitchen. And many years ago I learned to beware of amythyst as when I washed my specimen the purple dye ran off revealing plain quartz. But the real geodes that you see are not just picked up off in the countryside, they run in seams that have to be mined. This is a route to a mine that I saw grow over the decades from a single simple pit to huge openings extended hundreds of metres, all dug by hand. So after passing Sidi Rahal, take a track to the left. Difficult to explain which track but you can see a building at the end. Turn left at the building then right and pass through the little village, you will then probably choose to park up where the track crosses a stream bed. Walk on another 500m and you will see a schoolhouse towards the right and climb up the rubble to the mine. There's a guy in the village who will sell geode samples. And that's the end, back to the RR210 and into Marrakech. [/QUOTE]
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