Sunday 27th May- Craig’s 36th Birthday!
Breakfast then walking tour of gorge with guide from hotel, Mohamed, who provides us with much useful info on not only the gorge but the nomadic peoples of the area. Only sour note is a visit to another carpet cooperative where the owner, another Mohamed, after greeting us warmly, keeps saying ” welcome, welcome, no push” and then proceeds to push for all he is worth. On the realization that we have no intention of buying he becomes decidedly unpleasant and only just stops short of asking us to regurgitate the herbal tea which he had offered us earlier.
Lunch at hotel and then off on the 90 kms drive to Dades Gorge,via the town of Boumalne.
Dades is less popular than Todra with tourists, mainly due to the more testing approach drive through some very speccy scenery. Rather than check into the hotel first we drive into the gorge itself and the switchback road to the cafeteria overlooking the precipitous gorge is another engineering marvel at which the Moroccans seem to excel. Yahya leaves us to take a quick stroll into the gorge proper, after which we return to the hotel for dinner, which is mercifully free of the ubiquitous ‘tagine ‘ dish.
The Obese Ferret
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