Riad Salam Zagora
Blu Mohamed V, BP 60 Zagora, Morocco
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Desert experience
Today we travelled by jeep to Tiraf, a very small village 20mins from Tagounite, home to about 60 Bedouin families, approx 250 people in total.
We were shown through the house and to our room. Suzannah told us it was very "over-furnished" compared to the traditional style - she had hung a rope bookcase in one corner!!
Again beautiful in its simplicity with just rugs and cushions on the floors. We met Khalid's cousin Mohammed - I think it was actually his house.
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The dunes that were in our guidebook
... first all along the N10 then
turning south onto the R105 which wound its way through the picturesque
countryside through beautiful little villages and although the road was
very narrow the scenery was worth every narrow kilometre!
There
was almost a photograph and each corner. Along the time we were at
about 1100 m elevation driving round the edge of the hills with a river
flowing down in the valley some ...
Endless Beauty
... tricky. What was waiting for us at the top of our trek was a beautiful, thin waterfall, into a plunge pool. The water was too cold for us to jump in, but we definitely appreciated the spray on this gorgeous hot day. We walked up close to the waterfall and stood behind it, with the sun on the opposite side, and it was amazing to look up, from underneath the waterfall to see the sun shining through the raging water as it fell through the air.
We ate some fruit at ...
Arabian Nights
... many languages from the visitors. I speak maybe 10 languages now, so is good." I asked him to teach me some Berber words and he happily obliged. The rich sounds of the language rolled in his throat and sounded foreign and exotic to my ear. I liked the way he pronounced the word Berber - a throaty warble like "Bearh-bearhhh". As we rode on he jokingly assigned us each a Berber name. I was Nujma (meaning star), Stefano was Ali Baba (hah!).
After a couple hours, ...
My first camel ride
... experiences of either finding it more or less pleasant than the night before. Apparently, there are different types of saddles. Or maybe it's the 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 on the same tree. At least that's what I understood from our guide ...



