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Over the last couple of months meandering our way through France and northern Morocco, we’ve been in fairly densely populated areas. There’s never been any need to carry much food or water, or to give much thought to where we will sleep the night. We were never more than a hour or two from all the facilities that we have become accustomed to.

As we head further south and the Sahara looms ever closer, distances between settlements are becoming greater by the day. We are finding our selves having a brief discussion in the morning, along the lines of: “How long do you think it will take to get from x to y? Should we fill another bottle of water in case it takes longer than we think?”

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Photographs from northern Morocco, from Tangier to Essaouira (April and May 2009). You can see our Southern Morocco gallery here. Photographs by Huw and Bex.

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For 36 hours, we stayed in a bungalow in Safi, northern Morocco. Just outside our door, from dawn to dusk, a group of peacocks called raucously, continuously. Every time we brought out the sound recorder, they shut up. Not a peep. We have hours of recordings of dogs barking in the distance, but this is the only decent sound recording we managed to get of the noisy tykes.

Date and time recorded: 08:30 local time, 16th May 2009
Location: Safi, Morocco (view on map)
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Peafowl chicks cheeping. You should also be able to hear their mother in the background (she sounds a bit like a chicken), and the flapping of a peacock as he hops up onto a wall.

Date and time recorded: 17:00 local time, 15th May 2009
Location: Safi, Morocco (view on map)
Copyright: Listen to Africa

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