Category: travel series
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…
Our trips 2019, part 2
Dear Readers, It has been a tradition on this blog to take a look back at some of the places we visited last year. In Part 1, we posted photos of places we visited in the second half of 2019. Here are the places we visited in the first half of the year. In reverse…