M Hamid

... , This is about my trip to Netherland and Germany for two weeks in late 2003. In Amsterdam I visited with my friend Chris and his wife Mel. In Waldrohf (near Hidleberg), I visited with my uncle Hamid, Shahin Khanom, cousins Siavash and Roozbeh.

... to Jamal's cousin's carpet shop we bid our farewells and headed for Zagora and onwards to Marrakesh. The road between M'hamid and Marrakesh is endlessly entertaining. It is are slowly disappearing beneath the encroaching sand, despite the palm frond ...

     The road ends at M'hamid.  There's a sign as you roll into town stating that the furthest place of my imagination is 50 days to the east by camel.  A town named Timbuktu.  But the times are a changin and the ...

... – scary!), coasting through the mountain with Arabic music blasting, conversation and wheels rolling. It was a 250 km drive to M'Hamid, the last town before the Sahara. Abde handled that 4 Runner with ease and precision around hairpin turns on the ...

... you down until you give in and buy things at their overpriced rates. We finally headed off for the desert and arrived in M’Hamid a few hours later.  Arriving at night we wouldn’t have known the desert was so close but if we were in any ...

... and a small village made of mud brick houses where we we shown how the local families make ceramics. At aroudn 8pm we arrived in M'Hamid a village just on the edge of teh Sahara. This is where we left our mini bus. We had packed enough stuff for three ...