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Dades gorge: Apparently there are plans to upgrade the piste from Msemrir to Agoudal with either a better quality piste, or even tarmac.
Todra Gorge: There's a lot of changes in the pipeline for the Todra gorge with plans to build a dam high up above the gorge section to control floods and prevent damage to the road and crops. Also a new road from Tinerhir to Tamtattouchte that will go 'over the top' avoiding the gorge. This will reduce non-tourist traffic through the gorge and will also create an interesting circular route.
Higher up the piste from Agoudal to Ait Hani is being replaced with a new tarmac road, the vast majority of which has already been completed and although it reaches nearly 9000 ft it is already passable in non-4WD vehicles.
Telouet piste: I rode the Telouet piste a couple of days ago and whilst it's still not passable by a 2-wheel drive car, it shortly will be. There's a load of work being done in widening the track and the big steps have already been removed. I was held up in a couple of places for 30 minutes each time by earth moving equipment but it looks like things will be finished in a couple of months. I don't think it will be sealed (tarmac) but will possibly be a perfectly good hard packed stone road.
This will mean that once you cross the Tichka pass heading south from Marrakech to Ouarzazate you will be able to turn east towards Telouet on the exisiting tarmac, then after Telouet you can turn south on a fantastic route towards Ait Benhaddou that follows the gorge of the Assif Mellou. Unfortunately the tourist tat shops will follow!
Visit Morocco before it all disappears!
Todra Gorge: There's a lot of changes in the pipeline for the Todra gorge with plans to build a dam high up above the gorge section to control floods and prevent damage to the road and crops. Also a new road from Tinerhir to Tamtattouchte that will go 'over the top' avoiding the gorge. This will reduce non-tourist traffic through the gorge and will also create an interesting circular route.
Higher up the piste from Agoudal to Ait Hani is being replaced with a new tarmac road, the vast majority of which has already been completed and although it reaches nearly 9000 ft it is already passable in non-4WD vehicles.
Telouet piste: I rode the Telouet piste a couple of days ago and whilst it's still not passable by a 2-wheel drive car, it shortly will be. There's a load of work being done in widening the track and the big steps have already been removed. I was held up in a couple of places for 30 minutes each time by earth moving equipment but it looks like things will be finished in a couple of months. I don't think it will be sealed (tarmac) but will possibly be a perfectly good hard packed stone road.
This will mean that once you cross the Tichka pass heading south from Marrakech to Ouarzazate you will be able to turn east towards Telouet on the exisiting tarmac, then after Telouet you can turn south on a fantastic route towards Ait Benhaddou that follows the gorge of the Assif Mellou. Unfortunately the tourist tat shops will follow!
Visit Morocco before it all disappears!
