What a trip. We.ve just got out of the desert. After a long overnight bus ride from fez we reached Rissani where we meet our driver who took us in a 4x4 to an aburage to chill for the day. It.s just too hot to trek our into the saraha in the middle of the day, so we chilled with the locals till about 5:30.
Then of course a sandstorm hit right when we we.re about to leave. The guide told us we should wait it out, but after 20 minutes he brouth the camels and said hop on. So we just wrapped up our heads in turbans and hoped for the best. It fucking rocked.
All my life when I thought of deserts I imagined endless dunes thousands of feet high in all directions. Just perfect dunes with no rocks or visible signs of life. I.d always been disappointed in the deserts of Arizona and California. Sure the Mojave has dunes, but plenty of rocks and scub bush. So needles to say I was pumped for this part of the trip.
Our guide Siad led us on the camels thru the dunes for a couple of hours to a berber villiage in the middle of nowhere. The Berbers are an old nomadic people not related to the arab population. We spent the night in a tent and saw the stars like never before. The only light was from the few campfires around us. Some Berber kids jammed out on the drums and invited me to play with them, Ariel got some good video of them. After some great dinner, I slept unbelievably. It.s weird for it to be so quiet, I.ve lived in cities my whole life.
The next morning we packed up and treked back to the auberage. The sandstorm from the previous day had wiped all the dunes of tracks and footprints. It was amazing.
We spent the next day in a strage town called ER-Rachhidia, Ariel was not feeling so hot so I didn.t want to put us on the long bus ride to Marrakesh. This town gets no tourists, so we got lots of stares, but it was nice to be off the tourist trail.
Well, that.s it for now. More on Marrakesh later...
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