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... the way we passed many shops selling various rocks and fossils. About 45 minutes prior to our destination, "Auberge Yasmin", a riad near Erg Chebbi (not far from the Algerian border), we left the paved highway to travel on "hammada" or stony desert, a ...
... had eaten so far in Morocco! Now we headed to Merzouga - our highlight, to the sand dunes of the Sahara desert called Erg Chebbi. Counting down the kilometres to Merzouga - the nearest town to the sand dunes, we suddenly turned off the road and began ...
... are on top, a bit worrying at first, but we soon got into the rhythm as they strode out into the massive sand dunes of Erg Chebbi, The sun was going down throwing huge shadows of the dunes across the desert. We arrived at our camp after dark, God knows how ...
... old men who we had no other way of communicating, giving up in the end and instead showing them pictures of other places in Morocco. On arriving to Rissani, we quickly dodged oncoming touts, and managed in our basic arabic to find out whedre to catch a ...
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Explore Morocco
Posted on Mar 10, 2008, 20:50:24
... get more at the next pharmacy we may possibly see. The next day our trip took us to Merzougha also known as the Erg Chebbi dunes. We passed through the towns of Erfoud and Rissani before getting to Merzougha. Our guide had booked us a camel trekking ...
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Back from Morocco
Posted on Jun 14, 2008, 21:49:50
... ll see other 4 wheel drives - not much else on the road apart from donkeys- and when you get to base camp in the Sahara at Erg Chebbi you'll see other camel caravans. But the place is so huge and exciting it doesn't matter a bit. The dunes swallow ...
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Where to stop overnight between Marrakech and Merzouga?
Posted on Aug 9, 2008, 14:36:33
... is that we wouldn't have the time to do both I don't think. Our main objective is to experience the Erg Chebbi sand dunes, which from my understanding are quite a ways out from Marrakech. So we figured that rather than driving straigh through, we ...
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Where to stop overnight between Marrakech and Merzouga?
Posted on Aug 3, 2008, 21:36:51
... is that we wouldn't have the time to do both I don't think. Our main objective is to experience the Erg Chebbi sand dunes, which from my understanding are quite a ways out from Marrakech. So we figured that rather than driving straigh through, we ...
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