Hotel name

My hotel room in Todra Gorge

Lots of diversity, high starting prices, and mint tea

I negotiated a big geometric Tourag carpet from $1600 to $711, and it's in my bag. Happy with price as are the merchants. These carpets are top quality not like the stuff in the Fes souk.

Delicious fava soup for lunch

Headed out

A lone desert flower that has survived a hot summer

Tea time

Berber camp

Headed across

Hot and sunny at the saddle

Looking back to the start of the climb

Start of hike along a cold mountain stream

Todra Gorge hike today

8am

Kitten in hotel Todra Gorge

So many feral gingers and torties in Morocco.

Oases museum

At the Oases museum complex

How oases irrigation works

Distinctively different women’s dress beyond the high atlas

Traffic hazard

Coffee break

Saturday in the CB preSahara

Fossil area as well

In their natural form

Dates in Erfoud

Desert glow

Date palm oasis in Ziz valley

Near Midelt

A village we wandered through after tea with a local family

Sunrise

Urp grumble grumble at 7:30 am Saturday

Our own private dining tent

My 4 bed tent

Dinner was good too, for a change

Camel to camp tonight

Indescribable

…just how easy it was to get this shot.

In the Ziz valley area

A long drive to the Sahara

Thursday s hotel. Better than Fes inside, too

Desert sunset

Rush Hour

Village outside Midelt

Hike in foothills of High Atlas

It's Utah

God country king

Fruit growing region

Tea is served

Home sweet home

Nomad tea time

Thursday November 16 Fes to Midelt

Stop for picnic lunch supplies at Marjan, a nicer Walmart type market. Pickled lemons and black olives

Middle Atlas

Alley of lanterns

Today's day in the Medina was a full one. There's only so much architecture you can appreciate and only so much shopping you care to do. Not enough time to stop and really explore anything. A superficial visit. What's my take on a guided group tour? Not really my taste, but has conveniences for sure.

Couscous with lamb lunch

Typical bedroom window in the medrasa

Interior woodwork