Chefchaouen - Ketama - Taounate - Fes

Brigitte:

Breakfast in the upper room of the hotel Dar Zman, very nice. Ride through the Rif mountains, very rough, for a long time through the clouds at altitudes between 1200 and almost 1600 m. Bab-Berret and Ketama are really dark places, lots of unpaved roads, lots of trucks and donkeys, a lot of confusion, on the street butchers and grill stations, very gloomy-looking men in hooded coats. No women. Women are only on the road selling vegetables. And anyway, there are people everywhere, there is no option for a peeing in the pampas. Men along the road, who want to sell drugs. You may not really linger, but we do it in Ketama because we are so frozen that we have to and because we meet four bike riders from Algeciras here again. A strong hot coffee warms up a bit and we have the first not very pretty toilet experience. Another stop in Taounate, buy something at the bakery and drink a mint tea. Impressive show up: I enter a cafe only with men inside ... But they are very nice. Nevertheless it takes some time getting used to. When I want to go to the bathroom, I have to wait, I am offered a chair, the guy in front of me is being drummed out of the toilet. Also an quite ugly one, I'm happy about wearing boots. Meanwhile, Wolle has a photo session with a few young men and the bike outside. He's wondering, where I stay for so long.

The second part of our today's ride is more relaxed, milder, landscape is no longer that rough, it's only extremely gusty in some places.

Thanks to the satnav we find the Hotel El Batal in Fes easily. It turns out to be an oasis, beautiful, generous, nice people, totally quiet at night. We take a walk and find back from the medina thanks to Wolle's satnav for hiking. We have delicious dinner in the hotel and come to rest, which is also necessary.