Speed Traps and Barbary Macaques

In my two trips to Morocco I’ve probably logged about 30 hours of driving; mostly between cities with a lot of kilometer to show for it. My reward for being an adventurous driver: four speeding tickets. I’ll admit to having a bit of a lead foot, but given I’ve only had one speeding ticket in the states in the past four years and only been pulled over twice, my experience in Morocco feels like it should be an aberration, but it likely isn’t because there are speed traps just about everywhere. I recently completed my first major road trip (see map below) across the Morocco and I probably saw one police checkpoint for just about every 1.5 hours of driving. At just about every checkpoint you see several dozen people pulled over being written up for speeding.