Morocko and West Sahara Travel data

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121110-121124 Marocko och Västsahara  -  Morocco and WestSahara

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121110  Saturday, day 1

 

 

Flight:

121110 Stockholm ARN   departure 13.10  -  Marrakech 17.25

121124 Marracech            departure 18.10 -  Stockholm Arn  24.00


Day activities and Hotels:
day 1, 121110  Saturday,    night in Marrakech   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrakech
           Gueliz Hotel, Avenue Hassan II, Marrakech, Tel 05 24 42 52 00
           http://sv.hotels.com/ho309479/hotel-ryad-mogador-gueliz-spa-marrakech-marocko/
           wi-fi på rummen

day 2  121111 Sunday        Tamri, Cap Rhir images
day 2, 121111  Sunday,      night in Agadir          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agadir
           Oasis Hotel, Boulevard Mohamed V, Agadir   Tel 05 28 84 33 13
           http://www.expedia.se/Agadir-Hotell-Tulip-Inn-Oasis.h1378340.Hotel-Information?icmdtl=z5121029aYD4J3tulxUlgaSPNdvjAwAAk.1378340.LcTbabx.A.TAAR.447162.IE.1643.293731.en_US..&icmcid=TRIPA.ExpediaHotelAmenitiesSE.11004.A&hashTag=details&eapid=0-65&rm1=a2&    internet access

day 3, 121112 Monday, Oued Massa (on Panorimo), Barrage Youssef-ben-Tachfine, (dammen foton)
day 3, 121112  Monday,     night in Guelmim    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guelmim Gateway to the Desert
           Hommes blues Hotel, 447 Ave. HassanII. Guelmim   Tel 05 28 77 28 21
           can´t find it,  Hotel au rendez-vous des hommes bleus

day 4, 121113 Tuesday,     Guelmin, Oued Sayad, Oued Boussafen, Oued Draa, Tan Tan Plage
day 4, 121113  Tuesday,      night in Tan-Tan Plage    http://lexicorient.com/morocco/tan_tan_plage.htm
           Hagounia Hotel, Tan Tan Plage.  Tel 05 28 87 90 20
           http://aaubergecampingdes2chameaux.com/links_065.htm

day 5, 121114 Wednesday, Tan Tan Plage, Oued Chebika, Oued Fatma, Oued Ouaar, Khnifiss Lagoon
day 5, 121114  Wednesday, night in Laayoune   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Aai%C3%BAn
           Sahara Line Hotel, Avenue Kairawane, Laayoune  Tel 05 28 99 22 26
           http://laayoune-ma.three-star-hotels.com/hotel/sahara-line-hotel.html
           wi-fi access

day 6, 121115 Thursday,  Oas vid Laayoune, div stop
day 6, 121115  Thursday,    night in Dakhla   http://www.visitmorocco.com/index.php/eng/I-am-going-to/Other-cities/Dakhla/
           Bab El Bahr Hotel, Ave Al Moukaouama, Dakhla.   Tel 05 28 93 14 40
           www.h-rez.com/a277132/index.htm    
           wireless internet complimentary in public areas,

day 7, 121116  Friday,        Dakhla Bay,
day 7, 121116  Friday,       night in Dakhla
           Bab El Bahr Hotel, Ave Al Moukaouama, Dakhla. Tel 05 28 93 14 40

day 8, 121117 Saturday,    Aousard, Oued Jenna, div stop på återvägen
day 8, 121117  Saturday,   night in Dakhla           Dakhla on Panorimo
           Bab El Bahr Hotel, Ave Al Moukaouama, Dakhla. Tel 05 28 93 14 40

day 9, 121118  Sunday,  Gleb Jdiane, Dakhla Bay, ev fri tid
day 9, 121118  Sunday,      night in Dakhla
           Bab El Bahr Hotel, Ave Al Moukaouama, Dakhla. Tel 05 28 93 14 40
           see day 6

day 10, 121119 Monday    återväg t Laayoune, stop här o där
day 10, 121119 Monday    night in Laayoune     http://lexicorient.com/morocco/laayoune.htm
             Sahara Line Hotel, Avenue Kairawane, Laayoune Tel 05 28 99 22 26
             see day 5

day 11, 121120 Tuesday,   återväg t Tan Tan Plage, stop här o där
day 11, 121120 Tuesday,    night in Tan-Tan Plage
             Hagounia Hotel, Tan Tan Plage. Tel 05 28 87 90 20
             see day 4

day 12, 121121 Wednesday, åter t Guelmim,
day 12, 121121 Wednesday, night in Guelmim       Guelmim on Panorimo
             Hommes blues Hotel, 447 Ave. HassanII. Guelmim   Tel 05 28 77 28 21
             see day 3

day 13, 121122 Thursday,   åter mot Agadir, Oued Massa, Oued Sous
day 13, 121122 Thursday,    night in Agadir
             Oasis Hotel, Boulevard Mohamed V, Agadir Tel 05 28 84 33 13
             see day 2

day 14, 121123 Friday,      Seabirds by boat then transport to Marrachech
day 14, 121123 Friday,         night in Marrakech
             Gueliz Hotel, Avenue Hassan II, Marrakech, Tel 05 24 42 52 00
             see day 1

day 15, 121124 Saturday,   spare time?  
day 15, 121124 Saturday,   going home, night at ARN.   Departure 18.10 - Stockholm Arn 24.00
              A visit at the Marrachesh market Djemma El Fna before going to the airport.

A great page for info:
http://www.worldtravelguide.net/morocco/money-duty-free
http://www.naturallymorocco.co.uk/index.html
http://www.visitmorocco.com/index.php/eng/Home
http://www.thisfabtrek.com/journey/africa/morocco/20050729-tan-tan.php blog om södra delen
http://moroccanbirds.blogspot.com/2011/04/birdwatching-in-oued-massa.htmlAousard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ausert
Oued Jenna http://moroccanbirds.blogspot.com/2010/12/cricket-warblers-of-sahara.html

Sahelsångare - Cricket warbler

 

Great to know about:
coffee / Kaffe           Black coffee without milk        =              qahwa kabla
water / vatten            utan kolsyra                              =              Sidi Ali
water / vatten            utan kolsyra                              =              Sidi Harazem
water / vatten           med  kolsyra                              =               Oulmès

http://www.magicmorocco.com/images/maps/map_of_morocco2.jpg
http://nfmoroccobirds.blogspot.com/
http://nfmoroccobirds.blogspot.se/
http://www.go-south.org/
AviFauna  http://www.avifauna.se/

Reseledare Anders Blomdahl
Ringgatan 2
Ronneby Tel 0457-26654 mobil 0709-326663
email: ablomdahl@ebox.tninet.se

 http://www.birdguides.com/species/species.asp?sp=136196
Cricket Warbler or Cricket Longtail   Spiloptila clamans
 Har kopierat dokumentet.  http://moroccanbirds.webs.com/Publications/Amezian%20et%20al%202011_Spiloptila%20clamans.pdf

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120624 Skottland - Scotland, day1 Sunday

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Scotland 120624-120708

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Our World Tuesday

120624 Sunday, day 1

Woke up at 3.30. Too early I felt.
I fixed everything and was ready to leave at 4.50. I was driving Katrineholm-Södertälje-Arlanda. I had never been driving that road so early in the morning before so I was not prepared for the low sun that caused me a lot trouble when driving. Sometimes I had to slow down as I had a hard time seeing anything but the sun.
I reached Arlanda Car park at 7.40 and had some trouble finding it. But a Taxidriver helped out. Then I had trouble finding the way to Terminal 4. Bad or none direction signs anywhere. It was good to have plenty of time. :(

Well after finding where to check in I was done at 8.25. Nowadays you have to do it all yourself. Today I even had to put the baggage tag on the suitcase myself. Getting free of the luggage I sat down to eat what I brought.

I met the rest of the group at the Gate. We are 8 persons on the tour, tourguide included. Time for the flight was 1h55min a bit shorter then sceduled. We flew over the south part of Norway where it was some snow still lingering in the valleys. We landed in Edingburgh at 10.55 local time.  There were a traffic jam due to some celebrations so it took quite a while to get out of the airport area with the coach that picked us up for the drive to the rental shop. I felt sorry for a lot of people on their way to the airport. They left their cars and started running toward the airport. I hope they made it. Luckily the worst part of the traffic jam was over when we headed east along the coast.

Arriving at Open Arms in Darlington at 14.00 we checked in and had something to eat. Then left to visit the Tantallion Castle and Bass Rock. There was some hard showers and sunshine too. Bass Rock was really beautiful in that weather condition. Lots and lots of birds looking  like snowfall against the thunderdark skies with a sun shining through. Gorgeous! I was lucky to catch one Gannet rather close.

I met a Duch couple and helped them a little with the birds.

Bass Rock images on NF Photo

We also visited Scottish Seabird Centre in North Berwick from where you could see Bass Rock from an other angle.

Birding at Moray Firths coast and Aberlady Bay before heading back for dinner and birdlist. It was getting dark so it was not so much to see. Except for a nice set of sun rays.



I´m tired. It´s been a long day. Checking the shots for today. Took a shower and going to bed.

Night at Hotel Open Arms, Dirleton http://www.openarmshotel.com/  It was the hotel with fake book shelves. :)             

Birds today:
Knölsvan, gravand, hussvala, storskarv, havssula,storspov, bläsand, strandskata,svartkråka, kråka, ringduva.


Tomorrow at 6.00h.
Birding the coast before breakfast

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111005 Falsterbo, wednesday

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111005 Falsterbo, wednesday.  Going home day. :(

Breakfast at 7 as usual. But no lunch to collect today. But I did take some coffee and juice. We will be birding our way back to Lund and the central station. We left Falsterbo at 8 as usual and headed in north east direction. Our first stop at "Gröna Lund" close to a well known area for raptors called Börringe. We have a We have a very bright buzzard named after that area. But we did not see it today.

But we did see 7 sea eagles when we were birding at Havgårdssjön. Not bad. Some Red Kites also presented themselves. A lot of geeze of course. At  place called Punkten ( the point) we had aRough-legged Buzzard showing off it´s beauty for a long while. And, then, for the first time some cranes.

There was not much today and I guess we felt low as we were actually on our way home.

In Lund, as we reached about 11.30 we went to the station and a luchbar. Some paople was hungry and wanted food. We also went through the last birds on the list today. Then we separated.

I had 3 h to my train so I walked around Lund for a while. It is an old college town so lots of it remides of school and libraries. Not really my kind of town. But found a store for magazines where they had a lot of photo mags so I spent some time in there. And then I had some fun photographing a womens hairdo throu some bush. :)

The last shot, a Rough-legged Buzzard

Then almost 4h on the train before I was home again.

Avslutningsdagen blåser det ytterligare något och vi lägger vår sista förmiddag i Börringeområdet. Häftigaste obs är 7 havsörnar som kretsar tillsammans över Havgårdssjön. Ett gäng med 16 glador vid Näsbyholm är heller inte fy skam. Nya resarter är bl.a. duvhök, korp, sädgås och gråsiska. Dessutom 2000 vitkindade gäss även här, denna extrema gåshöst. Thaimat + artgenomgång på centralstationen i Lund innan vi kl 1300 far var och en åt sitt håll. Magnus Ullman More on Falsterbo here: NatureFootstep Bird blog / Fågel blogg Labels: Resor, travel, trip, journey, vacation, Sverige, Sweden, airplane, flygplan, sky, photo, photography, Monica Johansson, NatureFootstep,  nfphoto, NF_photo, nature, natur, fågelskådning, birding, Avi Fauna, Falsterbo, Lund, Börringe, fjällvråk, Rough-legged Buzzard

111001 Falsterbo, Saturday

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Falsterbo kortrapport på Svenska
Bird Photography Weekly 163

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111001 Traveling day - Resan ner

I am tired after yesterdays work with my daughters move. But I woke up at 5.50 instead of 7.00. So, I turned the computer on and posted a bird on the Costa Rican blog.

As there are no busses at that time on a saturday morning I had to walk to the station. So I left at 8.00. I got some cash at ICA supermarket and then went down town. I was down in good time so I had time to check on some people sitting in the square.

The train arrived as sceduled. I had met one of the ladies on the platform. She was coming from Karlstad and should go on the same trip as I. We made company to Norrköping where we had to change train and then had different seats the rest of the way to Lund. There were a lot of mist along the way but as we arrived at Lund it cleared up and became a summers day so I was too warm clothed.

We all met and it turned out that my roomate was not coming so I got a single room. I don´t mind about that.  So, we was only 5 persons with the guide. M Ullman. We headed south and stoped at a parking lot at Skanörs Ljung. It was still not clear but there was raptors in the sky. We found some rare ones and everyone was happy. Soon after we went out of the car we spotted a Greater Spotted Eagle (större skrikörn). I can´t say I really saw it because it was too far away. A Short-toed Eagle (Ormörn) was also in the air as was Red Kite (rödglada).  Not a bad start  for the trip.

Ormörn - Circaetus gallicus - Short-toed eagle

NF Photo 111001 at Skanörs Ljung and I really wished I had a lens with stabilizer. Our guide had one and I was envious of him. Well, at least I got a shot of  the bird.

Around 15.00 some of us were thinking a lot about a coffee break so we went looking for some place to get it. We found Annas bakery and everyone was happy. Then we headed for the ocean at Ängsnäset. We birded for a while and then strolled back. A Common Kestrel (tornfalk)sat in a treetop far away. Looking great in the light of the setting sun.  There was a lot of birches with peculiar shapes and then sand dunes. The sun was setting as we headed back it had become misty here and there. Quite beautiful.

Then we went to Falsterbo conference center to get  the rooms. As it was saturday the staff was not there so we had to find the rooms and install ourselves. At 17.00 we headed for the restaurant and was served a good dinner. Then we did the first bird list for this trip. When we left the restaurant it was getting dark but I took a walk at the beach. There was some lighted statues I wanted to check out.

Back to my room I connected to Internet with my laptop, there was no problem doing that, but it is slow.

Went to bed at 23.00h and have to go up at 6.40 for breakfast at 7.00.

Links/Länkar 

Falsterbo Bird observatory

Falsterbo kortrapport på Svenska
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