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A Mediterranean beach break that wakes up for a handful of days each winter, a small crew of surfers who all know each other, and nobody else. What to know before you pack a board.
Two of the best-known breaks only work at low tide. Without knowing that you lose mornings to a coast that is running somewhere else.
Not twelve months in a row, but four stretches separated by two figures. Know the stretches and you do not need the twelve pages.
The country is excellent for starting out, and just as excellent for starting out badly. The difference is three decisions, and all three are made before booking.
Five minutes of road, the same swell, and two different trips. The choice comes down to your level and to the kind of evenings you want.
An hour and a half of road separates two opposite ways of surfing Morocco. One rewards technique, the other mileage.
No time difference with western Europe and the swell runs in the morning. The rest, meaning the connection, the noise and the hours, wants checking before you book.
A surf camp is the easiest way to travel alone without staying that way. You just have to pick one that works like that.
Seven days arranged around what actually decides a session: the tide and the hour, not the programme.
Thirty-odd places along a few kilometres, photographs that all look alike, and a real difference none of those photographs shows.
The camp is the visible line and the most predictable. It is the others that move the bill by half.
Morocco’s best-known right is also where the most people pick the wrong break. What you need in your legs before you paddle out.
They do not cost money, they cost sessions. And every one of them is decided before you leave.
Taghazout made its name on point breaks, and a point break is no place to learn. What is left is more than enough: if you know where you are being taken.
December and January have the best swell and every bit of the crowd that comes with it. October and March have nearly the same wave without the peak season.
The season is not read in seasons but in two figures: swell height and swell period. Everything else follows, prices included.
The village sits on a single road. Where you drop your bags decides your morning walk, your evenings, and which break you see from the window.
Seven days, and what to do with each. Not a programme: a list of decisions, in the order they come up.
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