{"id":2207,"date":"2008-05-01T22:13:48","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T21:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/paddler-lifestyle-articles\/chris-eastabrook\/morocco-part-2\/"},"modified":"2008-05-01T22:13:48","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T21:13:48","slug":"morocco-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/morocco-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco &#8211; Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/paddler-lifestyle-articles\/david-fairweather\/morocco-part-1\/\">Watching Dave and the guys leave<\/a>, I was pretty sad. Spending almost every second with a bunch of fine people even for only 10 days can make you close.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/k100d_-250.jpg\" title=\"Stuart Martindale on the Dades\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" width=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/k100d_-250.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Stuart Martindale on the Dades\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/k100d_-224.jpg\" title=\"The First Gorge of the Dades\"><\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/k100d_-224.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"The First Gorge of the Dades\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><!--more-->I snapped out of that sobby mess found Stu, my partner in crime from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/paddler-lifestyle-articles\/chris-eastabrook\/a-tibetan-adventure-part-ii\/\">Tibet<\/a>, and sought out more Moroccan adventures.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">We spent a couple of days paddling through a popular tourist destination -\u00c2\u00a0the Dades Gorges which was again, not too challenging but, incredibly beautiful.<br \/>\nThat was followed by a surreal day driving through the desert and snow, to the Ahansal and longer descent through this classic.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/k100d_-273.jpg\" title=\"Catherdal Rock\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/k100d_-273.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"CEMorocco04\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/k100d_-182crop.jpg\" title=\"The Sebou\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/k100d_-182crop.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"The Sebou\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Morocco is certainly the friendliest country I have ever had the pleasure of paddling in and in their stride for development many dams are being built so I won\u00c2\u2019t be leaving it too long before returning.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chriseastabrook.co.uk\/biography\/expeditions\/morocco\">For a more detailed write up and more photos follow me\u00c2\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/k100d_-256.jpg\" title=\"Third &amp; Final Gorge on the Dades\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" width=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/k100d_-256.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Third &amp; Final Gorge on the Dades\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching Dave and the guys leave, I was pretty sad. Spending almost every second with a bunch of fine people even for only 10 days can make you close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paddler-lifestyle-articles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9tk9G-zB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyranha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}