30km from Zeida, arrived to Midelt, the town for sort of the gate of Atlas. Atlas mountain is defined with 3 parts; Moyen, Haut and Anti Atlas. From here, I will cross Moyen Atlas. This is east end of Atlas.

Zelda から30km、Midelt。ここから本格的にアトラス山脈の中へと入って行く。アトラス山脈は3つに大別されていて、モワイアン・アトラス、オート・アトラス、アンチ・アトラスに別けられる。今回越えるのはモワイアン・アトラスというアトラス山脈の東の端。


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Midelt was a small Berber people's town so that there were more people wearing turban in the town. I expected there would be many shops selling Berber carpets in town, according to my guide book. However, an area for those shops on the map in my guide book had been gone. This was only the reason I stopped here, so there was nothing to see around. This day became my half day off.
Mideltはこじんまりとしたベルベル人の町で、街中にはターバンを頭に巻いた人が目立つ。歩き方にはモロッコカーペットが沢山展示販売してあるバザール的な場所があると書いてあったけれど、その区画は何も無くなっていた。それを見る為に立ち寄ったのに、それ以外は大した見所もないからこの日は半日休息とした。


Next day, I left Midelt. After cycling a while, the road got into the red rocky mountain. The road went up to the pass 1900m.
翌日、Mideltを出発。しばらく走るとゴツゴツとした赤茶けた岩山に道が吸い込まれるように入って行き、そこから1900mの峠越え。青い空に赤茶の山々が映える。






I can tell how strong the wind was in this day. I had a super strong head wind till my distention of the day, about 75km. I took 6.5h for the distance that I normally can take in 5h.
写真では伝わらないけれど、この日は激向かい風でRichという町まで75kmの工程に6時間半も掛かった。普通なら5時間で行ける距離。


The cafe for the lunch stop.
途中昼飯で寄ったカフェ。


I was very very tired by strong wind. A Berber woman was working in a cafe, and she cooked a omelets and flesh baked bread. It was very powering me.
向かい風でヘトヘトになってやっとたどり着いたカフェにはベルベル人のおばちゃんがいて、焼きたてのパンとオムレツを出してくれた。これが本当美味しくてホッと一息。




This cafe was in middle of nowhere, but they had a guest book. I looked inside and seemed many tourists had stopped here, even I saw Japanese language.
こんな辺鄙な場所にあるカフェにはゲストブックなんかも置いてあって、中をみて見ると日本人も何人か立ち寄ってるみたいだった。こんな辺鄙な場所のカフェに寄るなんて。それくらい道中には何も無い。


Finally reached to the town Rich. My mouth was sandy. It was very hard work. There were 3 hotels as long as I saw. I picked the one next to the bus station. However, after I carried up all of my stuff to the room, person in charge told me not to bring my bike up and need it to be outside. I forgot to ask before because normally caring bike to the room is no problem. Of cause I did not stay here and reloaded my luggage and moved to another hotel. In morocco, the reception and rooms of a hotel is normally located second floor so I always need to carry my bike up.
激向かい風に負けず、口の中ジャリジャリになりながらたどり着いたRichという小さな町。この町には宿が3件もあってどこも50DH。最初に行ったバスターミナル横のホテルは自転車をホテルの中に入れたらダメと言われチェンジ。せっかく荷物を全部上に上げたのに本当勘弁。最初に確認し忘れたのが悪かった。モロッコの宿は大抵レセプションが2階で部屋も2階以上なので荷物を上げるのが大変。自転車は入れたらダメとは普通は言われない。




The second hotel was no problem for bicycle, so I checked in. It was 50DH about $5. However, the room of mine was third floor..... It was hard work to bring all up. The stamina testing was still continued....
2件目のホテルは普通に自転車上げてもオッケー。でも部屋が3階だったので荷物上げるのが重労働だった。でも試練はまだ終わらない