Sweet Time

After an idyllic day in Essaouira I had to force myself to get on a bus to Dakhla. Estimated running time: 22 hours. It actually 24, although I am convinced that you can do the trip in 13 or 14 hours except the bus literally stopped every other hour. Furthermore, I swear that that bus wasn’t moving half the time since the breaks were so damn long. Some of the stops were at bus stations at every major town along the way. Others were rest stops were the food was cheap, the passengers sleepy and the bathrooms filthy. And a couple of times the bus stopped for no particular reason other than the driver didn’t want me to get a comfortable sleep. Somehow after 24 hours on a bus I was still sleepy.