Category: Morocco

We ended our off-piste driving at Tafraoute, a large and dusty village of mainly mud brick huts, plus one small hotel. The village was…

One of our overnight stops We stayed four more nights in the Sahara, it was hard work driving off road. I don’t suppose we…

Erg ChebbiView from our desert camp We stayed two nights at a camp site at Hassilabied, one of the many tourist villages in the…

We watched as the builders constructed this wall from the earth.  The dampened soil had to be carefully prepared over two days, no cement…

We were the blue dot close to the Algerian border The Erg Chebbi dunes at Merzouga were hills of smooth sand up to 150m…

Kitchen and living room at Hamid’s house in Meski That evening we went to supper at Hamid’s house where he lived with his parents…

One morning we took a walk with Hamid through the area by the river cultivated by the local communities.  Each family had its own…

Steep and narrow path to camp site Natural springs bubbled up at Meski, the source of the River Ziz. The French Foreign Legion had…

Midelt Was The Blue Dot Morocco was a country of contrasting scenery - some of it green and lush, some high and snowy, some…

We stayed three days in Azrou before leaving the Middle Atlas and travelling south towards the High Atlas Mountains. We drove through the Cedar…