After a delicious breakfast by the pool, we left the beautiful Ksar el Kabbaba hotel and drove to ouarzazate. Many movies have been shot there including Lawrence of Arabia, Jewel of the Nile, Cleopatra, prince of Persia, game of thrones, kingdom of heaven, gladiator, four feathers, legionnaire, and more. We passed the studios and went into .the town of Ait Ben Haddou, the best preserved fortified kasbah in Morocco. …
Sunrise over the Sahara- blog version We continued on after lunch passing through high mountains with narrow switchback roads. It rained for a short time…the first rain that we’ve seen since we got here. We gradually descended into the Ziz valley with its green oasis and lush palm trees. The oasis runs for miles and miles and the buildings are only built on the edge where the greenery stops..The …
Now back to our last evening in Fes. After resting up ( the high 43+ heat really zaps it out of you), we had a phenomenal meal at our raid. It was our best meal here so far. So moist and tasty. We ended the evening with Moroccan mint tea on our roof terrace.idir ((our hotelier) chatted with us for awhile as we looked at the ancient medina from …
This morning we had a lovely breakfast served in a sma ll dining room off the courtyard; Morrocan tea, hand squeezed orange juice, cakes, olives, cheeses, bread, Moroccan pancakes, honeys and jams. Yum.. This riad and it’s wonderful staff (Idir) is wonderful. It is called Riad Tafilalet www.riadtafilalet.com The streets were all cleaned up in the morning, most donkey pooped cleaned up ( or sawdust put over) and garbage …