The classic route in road trip, Morocco and the best route in road trip, Morocco.

Morocco is located in the northwest of the African continent and has been the birthplace of North African culture since ancient times. It has a very long history, and has been communicating with the European continent across the Mediterranean for a long time, leaving amazing historical sites and cultural heritage, making it a must-see place for tourism. Let's share the classic route of road trip.

The following is the classic route map of go on road trip in Morocco, starting from Casablanca and circling the Moroccan border counterclockwise.

Specific route itinerary:

Beijing-Dubai-Casablanca-Marrakech-Sovilla-Agadir-Valzazate-Merzuka-Sahara Desert Hinterland-Merzuka -N 13 expressway-Ibran-Meknes-Fez-Texas-Chevshavan-Tangier-Aisila-Rabat-Casablanca-Dubai-Beijing.

The digital marker positions in the figure represent the date and stop place. In fact, after playing in the desert, the accommodation changed slightly, but the original picture could not be found, so the picture was not modified. See the table below for the specific itinerary.

Important information about local self-driving cars

1, introduction of road conditions

The road conditions in Morocco are not particularly bad as many posts have written, and driving and the like must be technically excellent. As far as the experience of the landlord's visit is concerned, almost all the roads are newly built. We also joked that it was because the small partners who came before came to deliver the articles, and the Moroccan government saw it, so we came to the newly built highway.

Secondly, road signs are almost the same as those in China. Driving on the roads in Morocco is like driving on the roads in your own country, without any strangeness. The only difficult road should be from Agadir to Merzuka. There are roads under construction and mountain roads. Friends who have not opened mountain roads should pay attention. But overall, the road conditions are quite good.

2. Introduction of intercity roads

Among the four roads, there are few expressway beginning with the word "A". It took two for the whole journey. The word "n" belongs to the national highway and often goes all the way down. The longest is N 13, which runs through several cities. "P" or "R" starts with a provincial road, and they often walk. Expressway is basically a two-way four-lane expressway. National highways and provincial highways are generally two lanes and three lanes. Except those who build roads, almost all of them are asphalt roads. The islands that have been eliminated in China are more popular, but the order around the islands is very good, and local drivers strictly abide by the driving rules of first out and then in.

3. Urban roads

There will be traffic jams in some big cities in the city, but it won't be called traffic jams unless you get up with Beijing. Drivers in urban areas do not obey the driver's rules on intercity roads, which will lead to congestion and line grabbing, but it is also better than domestic ones 100 times. The overall quality of Moroccan drivers is very high, which is not as terrible as that written in the raiders of major websites. I seriously doubt that those friends don't behave themselves when they drive, and they are besieged when they go abroad. Personally, I think most local drivers are orderly.

4. Traffic police and traffic violations

First of all, I have to feel wronged for the Moroccan police. I read the posts of major travel websites before going to Morocco. Everyone who attended road trip complained about the Moroccan police. Almost all of them said that they were stopped many times and fined a lot of money. It's just that the landlord and his friends are still struggling for a while whether to drive or not, and before we set off, several of us also discussed many countermeasures. As a result, I went and found that it was not what was written in the forum post at all. The landlord can proudly say that we drove around Morocco without paying a fine, but once we were stopped by the police, looked at our driver's license and politely let go. Therefore, the majority of friends who want to drive by car should not be scared away by the posts of major websites complaining about Moroccan police. All right, now get to the point. You can take notes.

First, Morocco doesn't have monitoring probes, and fines for violation of regulations are entirely dependent on human police, so as long as there is no police, you don't have to worry about speeding a little occasionally, and you will be fined for violating a small rule. Of course, the landlord does not advocate illegal speeding.

Second, the clothes of Moroccan police are not uniform. The landlord stepped down and found that there were three colors, one was white, the other was blue-gray and the other was khaki. So from a distance, all the three colors of uniforms are policemen. You should check for yourself whether you have any bad habits of illegal driving brought from China, and you should slow down to the speed indicated by the road sign. As long as you get this skill, the landlord guarantees that you will not be fined all the time.

Third, the place where the police often haunt is around the island. As mentioned above, Morocco is a hot spot for traveling around the island, so when you arrive around the island, you must remember to slow down to the range indicated by the road sign and follow the rule of first out and then in. In addition, sometimes the police will bring their own deceleration signs, which are often placed on the roadside at 50, 40, 30, 20, 10, and the speed gradually decreases to the position of the police, so at this time, we should follow the speed of the signs placed by the police, not the speed of the road signs.

Fourth, we must remind you of your seat belt. Please forget China's bad habits. When getting on the bus in Morocco, in order not to be fined by the police and for our own safety, please buckle everyone on the bus, whether you are sitting in the front row or the back row.

Fifth, if you meet a policeman on the road, and you do what I said above, please don't be nervous, don't stare at the policeman, drive away naturally as usual, or you can talk to the policeman enthusiastically.

I drive. If you are stopped by the police, don't be nervous. You didn't break the rules, and you didn't speed. What are you afraid of? Besides, you are a foreigner at the moment, you can only speak one or two sentences of English plus body language, and you can't speak or understand any English, especially French, Arabic and Spanish. Anyway, the police don't know anything, but you have to be polite and friendly, pretend to be innocent, and then basically. If you really violate the rules, you don't understand that innocent people pretend to be innocent in front of you, and the police should be helpless. Because I can't communicate, I guess I'll let it go without a fine. The landlord guessed, after all, the landlord did not violate the rules and was not stopped for speeding. The only time he was stopped was normal driving. However, if you break the rules, you have to speak a lot of English and French proudly. I don't know what the police will do to you. So you can understand this skill of selling cute and innocent. Anyway, when the landlord came over, I felt that all the policemen were very friendly and often saw us on the road and greeted us in a friendly way.

Sixth, as in China, the driver's license and driving license can only be driven together. Little friends should pay attention to this. Morocco's vehicle registration card is particularly large, many times larger than ours. Please forgive me for not taking pictures. But when you rent a car, the car dealer will remind you. If you really can't tell the difference, or you can't understand the introduction of the car dealer, then you are stupid. You put all the information given by the car dealer in the car, and the police check it, so you give it to him and let him choose. Where's the driver's license? If you use the international certification I mentioned earlier, remember to bring your domestic driver's license so that you can use it together.

5. Vehicle insurance

When renting a car, it is recommended to take Super Supplementary All Risks. Also, if your English, French and Arabic are not very good, the landlord suggests that you use the car rental APP I recommended above, so that in case of an accident, if you can't communicate, you can let the platform help you communicate, even if you can't contact in time at that time. After returning to China, the platform can also help you communicate, and if there is a dispute, it can also help you solve it.

During this trip, the landlord encountered the problem that the brakes of the vehicle were badly worn and needed to be replaced. Because of many technical terms, and the garage also speaks French, it is very hard to repair the car, but when settling the claim with the garage, the garage thinks it is not an accident and does not compensate. However, because we took the Super Supplementary Insurance, we finally lost the car rental platform, but after returning to China, we communicated with the car rental platform to avoid delaying time because of different languages and understandings in the local area. Special reminder: you need an invoice to repair the car, and it is best to pay by credit card. Because we paid in cash, it is very troublesome to claim compensation after returning to China, because we can't prove how much we paid, and the invoice issued by the car repair shop is in Arabic. Now the car rental platform has found a translator, but the final claim is normal. Therefore, it is strongly recommended to rent a car on this platform again. I wonder if it is so difficult to recommend renting a car. hahaha.

6. About refueling

There are many gas stations in Morocco, even more than those in China. So don't worry about refueling, even in areas close to the desert, refueling is not a problem. When you refuel, it depends on whether the car you rent is diesel or gasoline. There is a sign on the tank cover. Well, the farther south the oil price is, the more expensive it is, because it is closer to the desert area. We rent a diesel car, the price is similar to that in China, and the local currency, 9 yuan, is one liter more.

7. About navigation

Recommend two. One is the Google map that comes with Apple's mobile phone, and the other is the offline map to explore the road. Google maps are used between cities, and offline maps are used inside cities. When the cell phone network signal between cities is not good, it is best to use the sounding off-line map. The landlord's experience is that when driving between cities, both maps are open. If you compare them from time to time, you won't make mistakes. Google Maps doesn't work well in cities, so you have to use sounding offline, especially in Fez and Marrakech. When you have a sounding offline map, you won't get lost, and there won't be posts in major forums saying that you must use local guides to reach these two places. Except in Fez, the landlord didn't find the English name of the dye vat in advance because he was in a hurry, so he found a guide once, and it was useless at other times. So I want to remind you in particular here. I suggest you write down the English and French names of the places you want to go before you go out, so that you can search accurately with two navigators. Pathfinder offline map is a special navigation used abroad. When friends are in China, they can only download APP and offline map of Morocco first. You can use it immediately when you arrive in Morocco. In addition, the landlord found that when driving in Morocco, the total time spent on navigation calculation is always one or two hours less than the actual driving time. Maybe it is because we are having fun on the road, or maybe it is because we are not familiar with the road and don't follow the theoretical speed of navigation. In short, the actual arrival time is longer than expected, so friends should also pay attention to this, and set aside this rich time when considering the route and play time. Because of this time difference, the landlord almost missed the sunset in Sahara.

8. About parking

Stopping for a while in Morocco is basically no more than 5 days, and stopping for one night is basically 20DH days. It's a little more expensive to stay in Marrakech for only one night, not more than 40DH days. Another suggestion is that you should pay the parking fee to the toll collector when you leave, not when you park. Avoid paying money when parking. When you leave, another person will charge you and won't let you go. The landlord has always adhered to this principle. So when Estella left, we met two toll collectors, so we paid the parking fee and drove away, watching the two toll collectors argue from the mirror.

9. About the driving time every day

Playing in go on road trip in Morocco is very relaxing most of the time, and the driving time between cities is not particularly long, and it can be reached within 4 hours. Very suitable for self-driving. Only from Agadir → Valzazate → Merzuka → Fez is relatively difficult, almost every section takes six hours, and Merzuka even takes eight hours to drive to Fez, so if you are tired of going to Fez, you can learn from the landlord, don't drive directly to Fez, and find a small town to stay for one night on the way to make the journey easier. /kloc-the whole journey of 0/0 day means that the three-day journey is very hard, which is quite good, but it is also this hard time that allows us to see the invincible Sahara.

The above nine items are some reference information for you to drive in Morocco. If there are any omissions, you can trust me privately. In a word, the landlord thinks Morocco is a particularly suitable place to visit road trip, with good road conditions. If you want to start the mode of driving abroad, I suggest you start from Morocco, which is really like driving in China, and the scenery on the road is great.

Flight information:

Set out:

Emirates, Beijing-Dubai section, EK307, Airbus A380 Dubai-Casablanca section, EK75 1, Boeing 777.

Return trip:

Casablanca-Dubai section, EK752, Boeing 777; Dubai-Beijing section, EK306, Airbus A380.

There is no direct flight from Beijing to Morocco. The flight I chose has the shortest transit time, with a transit time of 2 hours and a return trip of 3 hours. Since Dubai International Airport hasn't visited much, it's time to board the plane, so if you want to visit the airport duty-free shops, you can choose other flights, and if you want to save time, you can choose my flight.

Car rental information

Recommend a useful one

Car rental APP, car rental, we used this APP to rent a car on this trip and when our friends went to the United States and Canada before. Full Chinese booking interface, 7*24-hour multilingual telephone hotline. There are also many models to choose from, and the insurance is more comprehensive. Chinese navigator is provided free of charge, and driver's license certificates that can be used in 200 countries can also be provided to be used together with China driver's license.

If there are any problems in picking up, using, returning and settling claims overseas, the car rental company will also actively help to contact foreign car rental companies to solve them. The user experience is as smooth as CAR Inc..

This car rental brand: Dachiadoc.

This car rental type: compact MPV manual gear.

The rental price this time: 65438+2380 yuan for 4 days.

The full insurance fee for this car rental: 65438+854 RMB for 04 days.

Special note: If four people choose to drive by car, please be sure to consider whether the trunk is big enough for luggage. I chose this brand of car this time because there are more luggage for four people and the trunk is bigger. But for some reasons, the car we rented disappeared after we arrived at the store, and the store upgraded Dasia Duster for free.

Although the car is higher than the original grade and the trunk is smaller than the model we rented, it can also hold the trunks of the four of us. Our boxes are three 24-inch and one 22-inch.

Currency exchange and credit card usage information

Morocco's currency is dirham, and direct exchange with RMB is not supported. You need to bring enough dollars or euros to the local exchange. As Morocco is the back garden of Europe, we brought euros this time. After a trip, we also felt that more people went to the local area to bring euros.

On this trip, we exchanged 2000 euros for 20762 dirhams, and the average exchange rate was 10.38 1. The three exchanges are Airport 65,438+00.1057. Marrakech 10.48, Fez 10.42, Marrakech has the highest cost performance. Therefore, if the small partners who plan to go can accurately estimate the cash consumption required for the whole journey, it is enough to exchange it in Marrakech at one time. If you can't accurately predict your consumption, or don't care about the exchange rate difference, you can change your money several times according to the actual consumption situation, just like us, save more, and finally you have to spend money for the sake of spending money. There are regulations in Morocco that foreigners can't exchange dirhams into euros and dollars, and they will check their cash when they leave the country for customs clearance. We were questioned when we left the customs, but we didn't really open the box or open the bag for inspection.

At the same time, euros and dollars can also be directly consumed in local tourist cities. Usually, the local consumption of euro is 1 to 10, so it is not cost-effective to change it into local currency.

I read the raiders before I went online. Morocco basically can't use credit cards, and it doesn't support UnionPay cash withdrawal. But this is not the case when we come to this circle. More than half of the places support credit cards, and northern cities can basically use credit cards. The developed tourist cities in the south basically support credit cards (some homestays and Riad don't support credit cards, and the Sahara Desert and some relatively backward or small areas in the south can't use credit cards. In fact, there are many places that support credit cards, especially in northern cities, but there are still few places in backward cities in the south.

Need to remind everyone that many places in Morocco support direct brushing of US dollars. You can ask before you swipe your card and ask to swipe the US dollar directly, so it is more cost-effective for the credit card exchange rate to return to China. You can also set up a full-currency credit card for China Merchants Bank for foreign use. It is very convenient to go abroad to play, and the landlord has one himself.

No matter which exchange method is adopted, it is recommended that you exchange a little dirham in advance at the airport so that you can buy a calling card by taxi.

stay

Morocco is located in North Africa, facing Spain across the sea. Once a French colony, it is now the back garden of Europe. Many Europeans come here for their holidays, so the hotels and corresponding tourist facilities here are complete, which is completely different from the mess we imagined in Africa. There are various styles and formats of hotels. From a few nights to thousands of nights, there is always one that suits you.

Riad, a local characteristic building, must stay in Morocco once. Riad is the house of a large local family in Morocco, which is equivalent to the house of our domestic landlord. The architectural style is particularly inconspicuous from the outside. As soon as you enter the door, there is a hole in the sky. Each yard has a beautiful swimming pool, where you can enjoy the cool or swim, and then build a small building around the swimming pool. The doors and windows of the small building are beautiful, including the fa? ade. Each small building is also equipped with a rooftop, where you can see the scenery outside the yard and enjoy a cool meal. However, Riad is located in the ancient city of Medina in every city, and cars are often not allowed in the ancient city of Medina, which means that if you want to live in a distinctive Riad, you have to drag a big suitcase around the streets. Therefore, if you don't particularly like Riad's friends, I suggest you try it once in a while and stay for one or two nights. It is more convenient for the rest to live on the edge of the old city with convenient transportation.

Foreign travel generally recommends booking channels, booking or AIRBNB, and you can also refer to the ranking of Cat's Eye Eagle. But as far as Morocco is concerned, I personally recommend using BOOKIBNG to make a reservation. The arrangement of addresses and house numbers in Morocco is really messy. We booked two homestays on AIRBNB for this trip. As a result, the first one was not found because the address of the hotel was unclear. I asked the landlord and gave the address, but I still can't find it nearby. Finally, the landlord sent someone to pick up the hidden house, which delayed us for more than three hours. The detailed advantages and disadvantages are compared with each other in the form of a list.

Tips for booking a hotel:

1. I basically started booking hotels for this trip two months before my trip, but I can't book all the hotels that are popular with netizens, so if you want to book online celebrity hotels in particular, you must book them in advance, as early as possible.

You must remember the free cancellation time of each hotel. You'd better make a form to avoid deducting money if you want to cancel after the cancellation time.

3. If you are going to go on road trip like us and want to be casual, I suggest you book a hotel only a few days before your trip, and then make a reservation according to the actual situation in Morocco. Of course, booking near the date will definitely not be cheaper than booking in advance.

4. If you book a hotel in the desert in go on road trip, be sure to contact the hotel in advance to determine the parking place and pick up the car.

Be sure to look at the map carefully before booking to see if it is in the ancient city of Medina. If you are in the ancient city, it is close to the scenic spot you want to visit, because it is basically a walk in the ancient city of Medina.

6. Morocco is an Islamic country. The minarets of all mosques broadcast prayers five times a day on time, one of which is at four o'clock in the morning, that is, before the sun rises. Therefore, people with poor sleep quality must choose a hotel far from the mosque. Many of our hotels are far away from mosques, and we can wake up shallow sleepers every day. At the end of the walk, a biological clock has been fixed to wake up and then go back to sleep.

7. Friends who are used to drinking hot water suggest bringing a heating rod. In hotels in Morocco, there are basically no kettles. If you need hot water, you must take care of the front desk. Some can give a kettle, while others only give a pot of hot water.