When I don’t forget my journey to Morocco, it is right away the lovely Moroccan landscapes that arrive back again to brain and the splendid architecture of the properties. I recognized there is now a lot more than a year a circuit of a week in southern Morocco, accompanied by a great team of ten folks, which I maintain outstanding recollections. Back again on my excursion to Morocco…
We landed in Marrakech and we joined our hotel in the early night. I had a undesirable night time due to the fact the place was not isolated and our neighbors experienced a celebration until finally the end of the night time… In short, it was Marrakech!
The up coming morning, we took the bus to the town of Ouarzazate. The road that crosses the chain of the Large Atlas by the Tizin-Tichka pass is extended and winding but the landscapes are really beautiful.
We then took the highway of “Thousand Kasbahs”, found in the Dades Valley. We then see fairly clay villages, ksours, kasbahs, these are the attribute structures of southern Morocco.
We went to the ksar of Ait Ben Haddou. It is a UNESCO-outlined fortified village, which has been utilized as a set for several well-recognized movies this kind of as Lawrence Darabie, the Mummy and Prince of Persia. This is one particular of the areas that struck me the most throughout my keep in Morocco.
The up coming working day, we sank in the desert portion of Morocco. The landscapes are arid and really surprising. We occasionally meet wandering dromedaries in a huge desert spot, some sellers on the sly that occur out of nowhere and we uncover the habits of Moroccans. I was stunned to see that h2o was still becoming collected from a effectively, that women have been washing clothes in the waterways and that several villagers appeared to spend the day sitting down in entrance of their properties undertaking absolutely nothing. And the preservation of meat, do not discuss about it!
We put in the evening in Tinerhir. In the surroundings, one can uncover gorgeous palm groves. It is also the beginning position for the dunes of Merzouga, my most gorgeous memory of Morocco. We went at dusk so the temperatures have been fairly pleasant. The sunset was stunning, the photographs of the sunset in the dunes of Merzouga are obvious right here.
Or else, through our remain, it was really scorching, normally 40 °, regardless of the fact that we traveled in the course of the middle of September. We had been capable to seek advice from the existing temperatures and weather conditions in Morocco by means of Meteovista. We had witnessed that it would be good and that the temperatures would be “typical” for the period. Meteovista presents local climate forecasts for France, Europe, Morocco and the complete world. We can only hope that it will be sunny every single trip!
The following working day, even now beneath the lovely sunlight of Morocco, we stopped at the Gorges du Todra. It is a natural internet site the place the rocky cliffs are very substantial and shut together. Some climbers climb these walls up to three hundred meters substantial. A slender path permits you to wander down these cliffs. A stream passes appropriate by.
We slept in Erfoud, “the money of the day”, then we took the street to Zagora. We handed by means of the Draa Valley, in which fortified villages and oases adhere to 1 yet another. Then Marrakech to fes 3 day desert tour invested the afternoon and the night in this old caravan city which served as stage for these who have been heading in the direction of Timbuktu.
The next working day, we took the highway to Ouarzazate: the door of the desert. This Moroccan metropolis is found at the confluence of the valleys of Draa and Dades. The tourists are several and the souks do not miss! It is also the city of cinema: many films are shot in Ouarzazate and the metropolis hosts famous actors in the course of filming. We also found on web site the sets of the movie Asterix and Obelix Mission Cleopatra. It really is wonderful to see the cinematography in actual life but it really is disappointing to see how abandoned they are and in a sorry state…
In Ouarzazate, one can check out lovely monuments and kasbah adobe, which includes that of Taourirt, a Planet Heritage Web site by UNESCO.
We finished our trip to Marrakech, the place we invested two times.