Aghbalou Ramlia Auberge Merzouga
Merzouga, Morocco
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Sahara and Dunes
I woke up feeling 100 times stronger than yesterday. Although I was not 100%, I felt able to get up and do things. Walking in the dunes was the only thing on my mind as I did my washing and had a brilliant hot shower!
By 9.30am, I was no longer alone. My time alone was short but so so worthwhile. My first cup of coffee in two days was heavenly. I was tooing ...
Good looking camels...........!
... on cream buildings sported smaller green tiled mini canopy roofs over wrought-iron balconies and painted shutters. The town sits deep into the mountains, where pine and cedar forests abound. The trees bring such a richness of colour and form to the hills, which look down onto copious meadows of flowers here, in the spring.
As we travelled further, on a good P21 single carriageway, we passed a truck full of cages of white-feathered turkeys. The ...
Worth The Drive
... due to Ramadan, which is fine except we wondered what he was doing while we were in the gorge for an hour. We finally were on the road again and reached the Sahara in the late afternoon. We climbed on to a troop of camels and were lead out into the desert by a local Berber for a 60 minute sunset ride. The camels were extremely uncomfortable but the views of the rolling Sahara dunes at sunset helped take our minds off it. We arrived at ...
Sahara Desert in Morocco
... Everyone donned their scarfs wrapped over their heads but I had to settle for my tee shirt. One of the British guys obviously had bought a non genuine scarf because as he wet the scarf for extra relief, the dye came out and covered his face and shoulders blue.
We packed all the gear we needed for the one night and took a little rest which included a try at sand boarding down some small dunes at a guesthouse with a sand dune backyard.
Then ...
A Night in the Desert
... a coat. Since the sun was still out and quite warm and this ensemble was rather hot, the hats and gloves remained in a backpack until called for. At the appointed time we boarded our 4x4 and set off on a speedy drive along the dirt road to our camels. When we arrived at our departure point we saw three camels waiting patiently on their knees with our two guides alongside them. We mounted them one at a time…the camels not the guides. Heather went up first ...

