Archive for April, 2010

• Sidi Ifni – Eating

  There isn't a vast choice of paces to eat in Sidi Ifni, but what there is should suf­fice. Of the hotels, the Suerte Loca has the best restaurant, though you can eat nearly as well and much more cheaply at the Ere Nouvelle. Other cheap options include a spit-roast chicken joint, Snack Les Fle...

• Sidi Ifni – Accomodations

  Finding accommodation is easy enough, with seven hotels, all moderately priced. Of the two campsites, Camping Sidi Ifni, Avenue Sidi Mohammed (065 66 41 81), is rather spartan with little shade, and can get rather crowd­ed (in fact, it's often full), and Camping et Barco, Rue de la Plage (048 78 07...

• Sidi Ifni

  SIDI IFNI is uniquely interesting: a town that was relinquished by Spain only in 1969, after the Moroccan government closed off landward access to the colonial enclave. More than thirty years on, it still preserves an outpost air and can seem rather wonderful. Built in the 1930s, on a cliff top site...

• Mirhleft

  Heading south from Tiznit to Guelimim, you have a choice of routes: a fast inland road across scrubby desert via Bou Izakarn, where the road to Ifrane de l' Anti-Atlas and the Tata oasis heads off east into the Anti­ Atlas; or a more circuitous journey along the coast, by way of the splendid old Sp...

• Guelmim – Springs, Oasis and Beach

  There are good little trips out from Goulimine to the hot springs of Abbainou, 15km northeast, and to the oasis of Alt Bekkou, 17km southeast; both offer a pleasant alternative accommodation to a night in Goulimine. So, too, does the auberge-campsite at Fort Bou-Jerif, an old French Foreign Legion p...

• Guelmim – Accommodation and Eating

  Accommodation is somewhat limited. The Hotel Salam has the best meals, and there's a newer, jazzier place, the Cafe Restaurant Arnassa, 139 Av Takana (daily 8am-11 pm; moderate priced), where food must be ordered at least an hour in advance. For cheaper eating, there's a row of fried fish and tag...

• Guelmim – How to Get There and Move On

  Arriving by bus or grand taxi, you'll probably be dropped at the gare routiere, though night CTM services and some grands taxis may drop you elsewhere. At the heart of the town is the Place Bir Anzarane, with the main cluster of hotels and cafe-restaurants to its north. There is a tourist office ...

• Guelmim

  GOULIMINE (also spelled Guelmim or Gulimime) sounds pretty exciting in the brochures: "The Gateway to the Sahara", with its nomadic "blue men" and traditional camel market. The truth, sadly, it is considerably mundane. Goulimine is actually a fairly standard administrative town with a distinctly fro...