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Merzouga Slideshow
Merzouga
Travel Blogs from Merzouga, Morocco
Rain in the desert
... and listening to music. It gives me a lot of time to think, and just soak up the landscape. Driving to our auberge in the Merzouga area was a little trying. There wasn't really a road, as such. It was very bumpy. It was kinda funny to see all the road ...
Erg Chebbi Sandsea, Merzouga
We spent the day exploring the Erg Chebbi Sandsea. For me, the hightlight of the day was drinking tea in the Sahara with a nomad family in their traditional brown wool tent. The gentleman who prepared and served the tea told us, through a translator, ...
Erg Chebbi (wesetern Sahara)
into the desert to stay at a Japanese auberge. one night sleeping a camel-ride away in the dunes with the nomads. so many ...
ksar bicha hotel in merzouga desert
Ksar Bicha :Hotel set in the sand dunes of Merzouga. Information on rooms, location, rates and dromedary excursions throughout the southern region of the ...
adventure with style
im an american living in the Sahara desert with my berber nomad boyfriend . we create very special journeys in morocco with the highlight being the sahara . together we mix the modern ideals with the old berber cultures of morocco . call us modern ...
Welcome to the Sahara
... back towards the main highway and our next destination, Todra Gorge. The driver seemed to know just about everybody from Marrakesh to Merzouga as he was constantly pipping his horn and waving at other tour guides / bus drivers / people on the street. He ...
trips - excursions with camel -visiting khettara
... the life of the nomad .the gentleman, his name is Younes ...ect with nomadelife:You can find out everything For many travellers, Morocco might just be a short hop away by ferry or by one of the myriad budget airlines from Spain, but it's a much ...
How 'bout them camels....
... ; This was a memory, albeit probably touristy, but a blast none the less. The ride back gave us the chance to see Merzouga a little closer and hear stories about how the dunes are receding and the how they change through the years. You could see ...
Khamlia
I was here threetimes. It´s wonderful country. http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1844637997479.2090911.1286516859&type=3&l=8c9f0dcd64 http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1439621712325.2060814.1286516859&type=3&l=6452cc457b ...
The Sahara: Twelve Hours in a Screen Saver
... woman and her son in need, God was offended. Soon a sandstorm came and buried them and the town of Merzouga under mounds of sand. That sand is now Morocco's gateway to the Sahara, known as Erg Chebbi. These great dunes are 22 km (14 ...
Tour to the Sahara Desert
This two day tour went from Marrakech, through the High Atlas Mountains stopping at Ait Benhaddou, Ouarzazate, and Dades Gorge on Day 1 and Tinehir, Todra Gorge, and Err Chebbi... sand dunes on the western edge of the Sahara Desert. We, Hyesung & I, ...
A Night in the Sahara
Gorgeous scenery today as we drive through the middle Atlas Mountains with some views of the high Atlas peaks in the distance. There is a rally of classic cars from Europe to add to the interesting sights today. The highlight of the tour so far is our ...
Travels through the Sahara
... only about an 8 hour drive total. We stayed at a Kasbah, or castle shaped hotel at the base of the dunes in Merzouga, called Kanz Erremal. This was one of the first stops coming out of the desert along the trade routes from Timbuktu. The staff ...
UMA NOITE NAS DUNAS DO SAHARA
A partir de Erfoud foram duas horas em 4x4 + 3 horas em dromedário para chegar ao acampamento, uma aventura inesquecivel. Bom, como uma imagem vale mais que mil palavras e as fotos ficaram bacanas postei ...
Mud Huts and Desert Cairns
Still no sign of a blue sky. Liz was keen to join in with the local men building mud huts on Francoise's land, and they obliged her, so we all had a go. It was a craft we thought we could try out back in France. First one has to tramp with wellies on in ...
Finally, the desert
... handy. OK, so, we drive all over the place, stopping at the usual sites, but who cares, because at 5pm, we arrive in Merzouga/Erg Chebbi where the dunes start, change into our djellabas and turbans and head out on camels. My camel was called Jimi Hendrix. ...
Merzouga
... wonder of the world. Seriously, it was so cool... well hot, but still. We spent this last weekend in Merzouga, a small desert village in Eastern Morocco on the border of Alegeria, where there are these huge sand dunes. It was amazing, I dont even know ...
Camels, too many olives, and the Rat (What?)
Sunshine this morning! I was glad to see it, seeing as we were headed into the Sahara camping! Gail very kindly lent me one of her two thermal tops. I believe it will come in handy more than once. Off we went, around 9am again, ...
Sahara Desert in Morocco
... 't experienced and I was very keen to experience it. After two long and hot days in the van we finally reached the Merzouga Dunes, a big almost egg shaped random patch of sand (see Google maps satellite image) not far from the Algerian border. Everyone ...
Eine Nacht in der Sahara
Heute steht eine Uebernachtung in der Sahara auf dem Programm. Auf Kamelen geht's schwankend und hoppelnd durch den Sand. Danach tut einem wirklich alles weh!! Der Abend klingt mit einem Sonnenuntergang und lecker Essen unter Sternen ...
Alone... into the sunset... on a camel
Merzouga is one of the popular places to go for a camel ride through the desert. I got there expecting more tourists to share a trip but when I got to the hotel, NO ONE else was there. So I ended up buying a camel ride trip by myself with ...
Noire Village Ceremonials
... in a gravy of olives and prunes. Odron, the son of Francoise, had joined us. He was a nice young man who had lived in Merzouga since the age of seven. Now he was studying law in Brittany. He explained to me some of the Noire ways, which are very much ...
Good looking camels...........!
... private room, I dumped my bags, removed my clothes and joined the land of the desert ghosts. Saturday 10 September 2011 – Merzouga I didn’t sleep well, waking at 4.30am. I wasn’t aware that it was because of the heat, but laying ...
Camels and mint tea in the Sahara
As far as desert's go, the Sahara is where its at - Its really big, really dry, really hot and really sandy. However, someone forgot to tell the camels that two humps are more comfortable than one and that sneezing and putting thick mucous all over us ...