Hi Off to Morocco for the winter Forums

TonyG44

along with a few thousand others
I'm travelling over the HIgh Atlas and skirting the desert and Algeria
as far south as i can go
I'm looking for internet connection with a lap top, do these dongles work?
which network and deal is best?
Also looking for a Garmin Sat Nav with Morocco roads and pistes I know you can download theses
Any cool places for wild camping
I have a VW T5 4Motion swb camper and 2 mountain bikes on the back
my Leica and a packet of Lomotil
I know Morocco quite well
but this is my first time in a vehicle
any advice would be great

cheers

Tony

hilldweller

smiler

Hilldweller,I spent last winter in Morocco i can assure you that it is still possible to wild camp there,in one place i spent two weeks with ten other vans next to a police station, the only place that is banned completely is north of Agadir,Enjoy your trip with Ray we might meet as i will be there again this winter. Smiler

SueDonym

As for using your laptop...... Can't comment on using a dongle.

Our WIFI wouldn't work anywhere across there last winter.... the 'puter telling us there was a network compatibility issue. Other Europeans had the same problem.

We used various internet cafes and plugged our laptop into their wired network. Quick and very cheap.

ethnicall

Smiler is right, we went in our VW T5 in Jan/Feb this year and sometimes had to wild camp as there was nowhere else or sites were all full i.e. at Sidi Ifni. The only place we had any hassle was North of Agadir when we were just stopping by the coast for a cuppa, wouldn’t want to wild camp around there. It was our first time with our own vehicle there and found it easy going alone and you soon meet up with other motorhomers to swap info. We didn’t even have a map when we got there just the Rough Guide, the first site we stayed at gave us an old map they had lying around for free, we passed it on to another camper when we bought a newer one which had more up to date info on the ever increasing Motorway. This was the Red Michelin 1:1000 000 which has great detail on all road types though they are constantly improving roads everywhere.
Even in what seem the remotest places someone will often pop up and look at you out of curiosity. Most sites were only around £3.00 per night (about all they are worth) without electric which we don’t need having a solar panel, but they are handy to refill water tanks.

We will be going again towards end of Jan for about 3 months, staying mostly in the South where it’s warmer and drier though the site at Source Bleu Meski on 13th Feb. got flooded out the night we were there. Met up that night with the Desert Detours group and found Ray, Detourer very helpful.

Didn’t try using a laptop and dongle but there were very cheap internet places everywhere, even in the tiniest places, and usually quite good speeds. They seem to have put a lot on money into the phones network so possibly there may be a Moroccan sim you can use. We used to type up our emails on the laptop then take them to an internet place on a SD card and took a USB card reader in case they didn’t have one, nearly every PC has a USB port, some places you can connect your laptop direct to their network.

We only saw 3 other T5’s a German Sportsline? Towing a caravan, a British Karman and a Swiss California. Don’t know what size tyres yours are, the GB van had 17” tyres and said he couldn’t get a replacement for his anywhere in Morocco.
Camping Gas and bottles are very cheap and available everywhere though people told me it’s a bit sooty. We didn’t actually have to buy any as we only use gas for hot water and cooking, the fridge is a compressor type run by the sun (and batteries)

As you probably know it gets cold at night often only around 2 degrees and we were glad of the Diesel heater at times. Does your van have heating?

Any more info you want to know feel free to ask, also you should consider subscribing to Motorhome Facts as there are so many helpful people on here and a wealth of info.

Mark

TonyG44

cheers guys

I have no heater but may go for a solar panel on the roof
any reccommendations?
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