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A life-altering trip to Morocco My name is Joan Pont Prats and with the rest of our team we are working hard to make the upcoming Amazigh Xtri, the first extreme triathlon in Morocco, a reality. We are very excited about this project, as it is an important addition to the story of my family’s Moroccan adventure… Text: Joan Pont Prats 38
JOAN PONT PRATS AGE: 32 LOCATION: Barcelona, Spain Photo: Stuart McInnes When I was a kid, my parents decided to take my sister and I on a family trip to Morocco to understand the value of non-essential things. My father had a history of riding mopeds through North Africa and was one of the first pioneers to go from Spain to Algeria on a Vespa. We learned so much on that trip, and our lives changed forever. One afternoon we were in Arfoud, the city also known as the gateway to the desert. A cheerful young man put fuel in my parents’ vehicle at the gas station. In a clumsy, yet humorous attempt to speak Spanish he asked us where we were going. We told him we were going towards Merzouga to see the Erg Chebbi, the most significant accumulation of dunes in the region, and he immediately offered to accompany us. He told us he knew the area very well because he and his family had a café – the restaurant Des Dunes in Arfoud and a small hostel in the city of Merzouga. But we weren’t interested in being guided. First of all, because my father had already driven the route, and secondly because the boy was young and we did not know him at all. He insisted and eventually convinced us with his huge smile to allow him to join us. He jumped into the car without telling any of his family that he was going to be away for the night. During the trip he offered to organize a walk with dromedaries around the dunes for us, and we accepted. Once we were on the dromedaries and about to head out with a nomad guide, the young man asked my father for the keys to his car. We thought he might have forgotten something and threw the keys to him. We were stunned when we saw him jump to the car and 39
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