I have driven over 300km in the last couple of days having negotiated my way from the coast across the Atlas Mountains. The roads are all tarmacked and the only traffic is around the big towns, and you have to have your wits about you! The best way to describe the chaotic order as to who has the right of way is a Wacky Races, Mario Cart and Paperboy combo! Its great fun but not for the feint hearted!
The Hotel Riad Chay is situated within an oasis where the river has been dry for several years but there is an irrigation channel which is supplied with water from the Mansour Eddahbi Dam east of Ouarzazarte. The fields behind the hotel are green and holds a variety of birdlife.
The passerines spend the hottest period of the day in the trees and scrub that line the flooded fields.
A couple of Nightingale were very vocal as they were attempting to out sing each other. It is the breeding season so both declared their respective territories from an acceptable distance from each other! Zitting Cisticola were displaying buzzing around but I still cannot get on to them for a picture!
A lone White Stork was noted at the back of a field keeping its distance from me!
Cattle Egret were everywhere and were not troubled if you got too close to them.
Blue Cheeked Bee-eaters were seen from my balcony later in the afternoon and a pair of House Bunting joined me for dinner in the evening.
This was a very enjoyable day and a hotel I look forward to returning to on my route back to Agadir!
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