Category: travel series
Morabit Marbre Fossils, Erfoud
Our first detour after we left our Merzouga desert camp on our cross-country drive was a fossil factory or rock shop – Morabit Marbre Fossils, at Erfoud – the fossil capital of Morocco. What kind of music goes with fossils ? Try this : During the Devonian period, the Paleozoic Era, from about 450 million…
Road trip in Morocco #3 – from Boumalne-Dadès to Ouarzazate
This is Part 3 of a 4-part series on our road trips across Morocco. Click to see Part 1, Part 3 and Part 4 of the series. This road trip across Morocco took 3 days, 2 nights, from our desert camp at Merzouga to Essaouira on the Atlantic coast. The first night was spent in…
Road trip in Morocco #2 – from Merzouga to Boumalne-Dadès (ⴱⵓⵎⴰⵍ ⵏ ⴷⴰⴷⵙⵙ)
This is Part 2 of a 4-part series on our road trips across Morocco. Click to see Part 1, Part 3 and Part 4 of the series. The second leg of our adventure stretched across three days and two nights, carrying us from the desert camp at Merzouga all the way to Essaouira on Morocco’s…
Roaming around the desert – part 2
Continuing with the drive around the desert area near our camp, accompanied by some lively traditional Gnawa music. spotify:playlist:37i9dQZF1DWYCFWZy4Gz9M … along the way, we stopped to see a herd of donkeys that gathered around a well in the middle of a featureless flat desert. The well was built by funds from the charity – Coeur…
Roaming around the desert – part 1
First, let’s put on some Morocco traditional music made by the Oud – a type of lute to get us in the mood. In Fes, IT went to a class to learn how to play the oud. spotify:album:5IK0BWzH8lWcRqHocn0GQ7 What did we do in the desert ? We set off in two 4-wheel drive SUVs in…
Road trip in Morocco #1 – from Fes to Merzouga
This road trip is one of two which took us across Morocco, documented in 4 parts. See more in Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 of the series. We arranged a driver to take us, 6 people, from Fes south to Merzouga, the gateway to the Sahara Desert. The journey in a Mercedes minivan…