Allans trip to Morocco and Sth America

* The trip heads around Morocco in a clock wise direction.

• CH means `looking through the horns`and comes from the shape of the mountains nearby.
• Arrived in CH, set up campsite. The King was in town ........ and so too was his entourage, all 700 policemen who decided to use the same camp site as us. They made good use of the toilets to!
• Had a guided tour of CH. The place has a Med look about it with the walls painted blue to stop the flys - apparently flys dont like the shade.
• The hills leading down to CH are dotted with grave sites, all the Mulslim ones point in the same direction, towards Mecca.
• High up on a hill is a an old Mosque that is not used. The story goes that the Conquering Spaniards built it for the locals - but the locals refused to use it because it is not facing Mecca. I think it also has something to do with the fact that it is high up on a hill making it a bastard to get to 5 times a day!
• My tent buddy was Les, a travel writer who has written several books including one about his journey across the trans siberian railway. Top Bloke, from Canada and has the funniest stories to tell. Hell of a Snorer though, I ended up sleeping outside of the tent for half the night.
• First exposure to Prayer tinme at 4 in the morning. The sound of Air raid sirens, drums and wailing make for an interesting way to wake up. I thought the king was under attack! Welcome to RAMADAN!

London to Gibralter to Spain to Morocco

• A day of Travel - up early, 3 Countries and a British Overseas Territory in one day.
• Gibralter was interesting, the runway goes right through the middle of Gib because it is so small. As the plane touched down, I could see tennis courts running alongside the runway.
• Arrived in Tangier, Morocco after a ferry ride. Plenty of dodgy looking dudes and scammers around. Walked from the Port into the city to the place where someone would be waiting to take me to the hotel. The walk was like being on parade. Every scammer wants to show you the way or carry your bag etc etc all for a fee of course!
• Got to the Hotel Tarik where we would spend the night and meet the rest of the people on the group. Matt Damon was in town filming the third sequel to the Bourne Supremacy.The film crew were staying in our hotel.

Hi all,

So this is my travel blog / website - rather than sending emails with large attachments which clog up your email accounts - i thought I would try this instead. Watch this space for updates on where I am and what I have been doing - I will try and update it once a week for the next 12 weeks or so.

So with 3 months annual leave accrued, I plan on using it all and have decided to travel through Morocco (2 week camping / treking tour) and spend the remaining 2.5 months backpacking through Sth America. Before returning to Sydney at the Beginning of January 07.

My rough itinerary looks a little like this:
> 30th September: Fly to Gibralter, Cross into Spain, catch a Ferry to Tangier in Morocco
>1st Oct - 14th Nov: Trek through Morocco on a 4*4 truck
>15th Oct - head back to Spain travel up to Alicante, fly back to London and then fly to Panama
>18th Oct - Now in Panama: plan on hitching a ride on a private yacht over to Cartagena in Colombia
> Cartagena, Colombia
> 6th Nov: Fly to Quito in Ecuador
> Travel Sth to Lima in Peru
> Approx 20th Nov: Fly to Cuzco
> Approx 24th Nov: 4 Day Inca trail hike to the lost city of the Incas.
> Head to La Paz in Bolivia
> Head East to Salvador in Brazil
> Head South to Rio De Janeiro - Spend New Years here

• Depart for Sydney