The nightmare that is Maroc Telecom has returned and it looks like they have swallowed another 100 dirham without my being able to connect to the internet!!! Hence the blog that follows was written last night:
Tonight we are parked in a small campsite a couple of kilometres south of Ouarzazate. We arrived after setting off from Zagora today and retraced our earlier journey back to Agdz where we stopped for lunch, turkey kebabs! After Agdz we climbed to 1600 metres via a series of switchbacks offering spectacular views until we finally dropped down to where we are now at 1100 metres. We've been blessed with some glorious weather for the last week or so, blue sky all day, temperatures in the high twenties and not cold at night. Sorry to you folk in the UK enduring some pretty wet and windy weather at the moment.
Yesterday we met up again with Mohamed, the guy who took us into the desert the day before. He took us to his house to meet his parents, grandmother and brothers. We spent a couple of hours with them and they showed us how to make "Berber Whiskey", or tea. It's not just a matter of dropping a tea bag into a cup. There's a real art to making a decent pot of tea we have discovered, not too sweet and not too strong. When made properly it's delicious. Mohamed is the only bread winner at the moment, his father is retired, neither of his brothers have any work and he is reliant on tourists of whom there aren't too many at the moment. So I guess they are pretty hard up but generous to their guests and they all seemed genuinely pleased to meet us. If anyone reading this is thinking of travelling to Morocco let me know and I'll put you in touch with a good guide.
I haven't posted any pics for a few days so here are a few for you.
Enjoying the camel experience!
With our friend Mohamed (and our enemy, Fatima)-
Footsteps in the dunes, mine not a camels-
A lot of desert out there-
We watered the donkeys on the way back-
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