Not all who wander are lost
The highlight of the morning our of Ourzazate and into Marrakesh was the fortified ksar on the hill Ait Ben Haddou, also a UNESCO world heritage site. But first, we made two stops – one at the Kasbah of Taourirt and another quick stop at Atlas Studios, where many movies have been filmed. Here is the…
After our adventure in the Sahara, we had a long day of travel ahead through valleys and canyons of the Atlas mountains and in to the city of Ourzazate. We took the Tinjdad Road (the north route) towards Tinghir and had a few stops along the way. We stopped for a bathroom break, tea, and…
We had our Sahara engagement today with camels, sand, sun, and Berber (Amazigh) but the day actually turned out to be much different. I woke up with a massive ear ache in my left year after sleeping with ear plugs due to the paper thin walls at our otherwise luxury Sahara lodge (see more about…
Today was a big day on the road as we made it from Fez, to the mountains, and in to the desert as we spent most of the day driving to the Sahara. We began around 830AM from the Marriott and first stopped in the mid-Atlas mountain town Ifrin as we began driving to the…
We decided to opt out of the Gate 1 optional tour in Fez and instead did our own thing with our guide, Khlafa, who my Aunt Leslie recommended to us a few days earlier and we arranged the night before. Annoyingly, the Marriott did not get the memo about cancelling our wake-up call, and even…
We had a 9AM start to head to Fez via the olive region, Southern California landscape, and abandoned Roman city Volubilis (Oulily). After a lavish breakfast at our Rabat hotel, we got our luggage situation sorted out and on the bus. Gate 1 had a very orderly system of having us put the luggage outside…
