Draa Valley Zagora

Right, time for Part 2 of our Moroccan Adventure! Same Country, yet a completely different experience!

We enjoyed our last breakfast at our beautiful Riad Eden before departing early in the morning with our local guide and his 4x4 jeep just for us! We booked this excursion over the Internet, with Google as our only recommendation and so …

... lot of it).  Also, after passing village after village of arid, desert conditions, we were mystified by the towns in the Draa Valley, where palm trees grow everywhere and they have water year round from a river.    Finally, on Wed ...

... . Maybe by making an escapade to Zagora, as this section of the road featured more brilliantly diverse scenery, known as the Draa Valley. The canyons that we saw were just the most awesome jaw-dropping things that I couldn't believe I'd never heard ...

... camels. Either way, the ride back to Zagora is nice, the sun quickly intensifying its heat.   Driving back through the Draa Valley. A short stop in this oasis teaches me that dates grow on palm trees. There could be different types of dates growing ...

The Draa valley is a sequence of valleys that cut through the Atlas mountains from Ouarzazate through Zagora all the way into Algeria. The mountains are of obvious age and character, and have no need of the drapery of forest, nor the coiffage of ...

... with nothing but the gentle breeze of the valley for sound, was simply surreal. We then took a long break when we reached the Draa Valley, at an unbelievable view point, the name of the location says it all: Oasis de Draa. We sat on the mountain edge ...

... next journey of the trip in the car was just as long, but more scenic, for we drove through the Draa Valley, where there were Palmeries galore. Morocco's number one export, Dates,  is from these trees, and the country is in trouble because they ...