Hotel Tabarkat Zagora

... marocains. Le jeudi matin nous sommes retournes au garage pour faire affaires. Resultat = notre galerie cassee + des croisillons + 10 tee shirts et 1300 dhs = une nouvelle galerie bonne affaire. c est apres que ca se complique il nous a rajoute des ressorts sur les suspensions arrieres et nous a regle un jeu sur les roues arrieres, il nous a fait que de la ***** le maroc c est comme la ...

... desert. Just to let you know, camels make the most god awful noise when they dont want to stand up. Imagine waterboarding chewbaca. Someone said its just like riding a big dog. I dont know about you but does that sound easy? We stopped to watch an amazing sunset then continued on our way. At the end of the camel trek into the desert we came upon some Berber nomad tents set up for us. There we made camp and had ...

Honestly, I don't know what all the fuss was about. Everyone moaning and complaining that they couldn't sleep a wink, that the mattress was so uncomfortable, that it was freezing, and that the winds were so loud they thought the tent was going to blow away. Well I slept like a baby ...

... but she would deny that, wouldn't she?! Pulling out of the mountains was to pull into the desert - the landscape quickly became sandier and tinged with deep yellows and reds. We took a diversion off the "main road" onto a one track road for a detour to Ait Ben-Haddou, which is a fort ...

... way and Mitch and I would have nothing to do but wait. We surfed every morning, catching a bus 40 mins north often standing the whole way. As the bus driver overtook trucks on blind corners each morning we contemplated whether it was worth the commute for 2-3 foot slop but in hindsight I guess it was. Hope all great back home, sorry the blogs are late again but the photos will really do the blog justice, the dunes were so beautiful. Will update the rest soon. Love Brad

... Moroccan restuarants, except those catering soley to tourists and so sketchy with respect to authenticity, require you to order couscous a day in advance of your meal reservation. At this point, we were also still ignorant of the ebb and flow of Moroccan daily life and unaware that the evening meal occurs after evening prayers. Evening prayers, at this time of the year, are around 8:30pm. Keeping in mind, for those ...

... with someone else. So after figuring out where we needed to be we caught a cab and found our way to Caravane du Sud. Once there we realized that they would only take us on a camel directly from Zagora but we wanted to go further out into the desert so we told them we had to think about it and caught a ride back into town. We walked along for a short time and then haggled through multiply guides and set up a camel trek for ...

... disparity of power between Israeli and all the countries/territories that are around it. There have been around 25 deaths in Israel. The death toll in Lebanon is well over 300 and all roads into the country have been destroyed making it impossible for people to evacuate and for supplies to be sent to help victims. Electric units have also been targeted, and hospitals are becoming useless. Israel has also surrounded them by sea. There are thousands of displaced families and ...

... our driver-guide was French speaking). It soon became obvious that we shouldn't have followed him and we had a long walk the long-way-around back to the bus. Arriving, no one else was to be found, not even the driver. Worried that they had gone looking for us, we started walking back down the original way - and their they were all coming back. Not too long after this we stopped at a fancy place for lunch and after a look at the menu, decided to try our luck over the road for some cheaper ...

... flow" and spend a bit more time exploring her passion for the desert and I'm heading to Marrakesh by myself tonight. There are vague plans to meet further down the track at some point but at the latest we'll see each other in Malaga on the 3rd (we head back to London for the next leg of our journey on the 4th).
Well, that's it for now... must run, I've got a bus to catch (I hope - it is Africa after all! ;-)