The camel trek we did was so much fun and was full of twist and turns. We headed out on our way pretty early. We had a long drive ahead of us to the Zagora desert which was about 7 hours from Marrakech. The ride wasn’t too bad but there were people who were complaining about AC / windows o
pen or closed .. ect. So it got a little annoying at some points.
Driving through the Atlas Mountains was so beautiful all you could do was just stare out the window and take in the scenery. There were spread out villages along the way and there would be random small shops on the side of the road. One of the shops had “Welcome In My Beautiful Shop” hand
painted above the door I’m sad I didn’t get a picture of that.
About 2 – 3 hours into out drive we got into a car accident! It was so scary I didn’t really know what was going on before but the people towards the back saw this huge tour bus coming towards them. We were driving around the corner on the outside, on the EDGE of the high atlas mountains and the tour bus was on outside of the road and didn’t slow down enough. It was scary at first, I could jest envision the bus going over the edge of the mountain but we were lucky to have a good enough driver to know what to do in the situation so everything was fine. One thing I found interesting is that every male got off the bus but all of the woman stayed on while we were waiting. The only damage that was down was to the back tire and once it was changed we were on our way!
The rest of our ride was nice and smooth :) our tour guide Farid even sang an Eagles song for us and we all became obsessed with the song Waka waka. Oh and there was a wicked good song on one of the radio stations that goes something like “M-O-R-O-C-C-O I’m from Morocco where you from!” .. someone should find me the name of it :) After driving for a longggg time lol :P we got the the camels! We were all so excited to finally be there. We picked out our camels and up we went!! It was fun riding them but I don’t think I could participate in the 52 day camel trek to Timbuktu. My camels name was Kitty :P I named it myself but then I found out it was a boy haha! We road our camels into the desert as the sun was setting. It was so gorgeous!!
We arrived to the camp and it was very dark, we were met by some of the nomads and they showed us to our tents where we would be eating and sleeping. The tents were really cool and very big. We were served mint tea (yummy) and got to know the nomad his name as Jesus. That wasn’t his real name but it was a name he gave himself to make it easier for us to say. Kind of a funny name to give yourself right?? Lol. He was very nice and gave us each a name so he could remember, mine was Naomi. We all hung out there for a while and had dinner then sat under the start and chatted, told stories and jokes. Our tour Farid had some really funny jokes! I’ll post them once I can get them. After that they had a fire where they danced and played the drums which was really fun!
The next morning we woke up to watch the sun rise over the mountains in the distance it was so beautiful. Shortly after that we were on our way back to the vans to head out. We said our goodbyes to our camel friends and where on our way back home. Along the way we stopped at the Ait Ben Haddou Kasbah it is a 16th century fortress built into the side of a rock face where famous movies like Gladiator, Laurence of Arabia and kingdom of heaven was built. We stayed and explored for a little while then grabbed lunch and we were on our way back to the ship.
On my last day (9/14) in Casablanca I took it easy and got free internet to put some pictures up. Morocco was a great country I had such a good time!
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