Maison d'hote Rose du Sable Ouarzazate

... trees here for the wood for the kilns ? Anyhow it would appear that when it rains the mud bricks - well get muddy, so I think it's helped that the film sets help keep the place uptogether. We stayed at an OK but slightly dodgy mud brick hotel. First thing in the morning, 7.00 am we did the trek up through the Kasbar (read fortified town or village) to the Keep at the very top. It was a great time for this ...

Just quick entry to set the map pin. Suffice I lucked out and nabbed a guide in Merzouga who just happened to be headed to Marrakech to pick up 3 Spanish clients to guide them on a 10 day tour of Morocco.<br><br> Thus, instead of struggling w/ mind-boggling taxi negotiations to navigate to Quarzazate (about 8 hrs. from Merzouga), I ...

... contests - goat herding involves lots of stone throwing.<br>Some firewood gathering is involved &amp; the Berbers are into bread making each evening. There are other nomads on the move (some with tourists) and we get the invite to tea at a random cave complete with smoky fire; pretty soon if it's not dusty it smells of smoke.<br>Quite a lot of the trek is on dry river beds &amp; that is not the easiest - it's much more interesting on the ...

Ait Ben Haddou is one of the oldest Kasbahs in Morocco. Onthe way to the hotel we saw goats on the side of a maountain. And from the roof of the hotel I took pictures of the kasbah and the neighbors garden. We met 2 German girls the next morning and gave them a ride to Casablanca. They were lots of fun.

... to those of us from countries where there are such things as sand bags and alternative routes. But in Morocco, the dammage done by a day or so of rain is fixable only by Allah and we were at his whim. While brainstorming about our next course of action we were approached by a man who got our attention by with a "Hey! You are the two French and two Americans who are going to the dessert with Hassan. Abdo is waiting for ...

... also drink their milk, eat their meat, and use their skin and hair for tents and leather things. 8. Camels have three layers of eyelids and one of them is see-through, our transparent. 9. There are 150,000 camels in Morocco and the population is growing. 10. No camels are wild in Morocco because they are too valuable. Every camel is owned and watched by camel herders. 11. Riding a camel is so much fun! When they stand up or sit down, or go ...

... time without success) and basically sucking it in to squeeze through little gaps... I love d it and had a great time - i wish we could have done it all afternoon - we eventually made it out and down to the stream. We took our shoes and socks off and pulled up our trousers to cross it - taking a while to negotiate the slippery rocks below. We made it up the hill and crossed the road and were back at our unfinished ...

... for some time, we arrive in the village together with a bus of Japanese people (package travel agencies are behind the schedule as well;)). So, nearly at sunset, we run down to the valley, cross a stream without boots and then through the kasbah (10dh) up to the peak of the hill on which it is built, just right to see the very sunset - rewarding;). The kasbah itself (or a kasbah village) is quite large and even now people actually live there. Quite nice as well ...

... shake them off, telling them I don't have any money. One kid runs to the passenger side of my car and sees my 75-300m Tamron zoom lens, and says "Yes, you do have money." At this point I was getting rather nervous - the car wasn't locked. So I quickly went back to my car, luckily, because as I just got into the car, and just managed to push down the lock of the door on the passenger side of the car, the boy tries to open it. I close my side, having to really ...

We already knew that the cost of a grand taxi from Rissani to Todra Gorge was ~300 dirhams and when we asked the price they charged typical moroccan price 500 DH. So we said we would find our own taxi, this ****** the guy off and we walked into town. The 6 of us stuck out like sore thumbs, I lead the gang to a place where I saw some taxis waiting around, once there we were swarmed by locals(false guides) all wanting to give us a better price on the taxi. This ...