Today was a travel day, leaving Fes at 8.00am we travelled
deep within Berber country and arrived on the edge of the Sahara Desert to the
call of evening prayers at sunset.
It was a day of contrasts. We left the hustle and bustle of
life in the medina, travelled through the cedar forests of the Mid Atlas
Mountains, through a Swiss style village in the mountains and fed Barbary Apes
on the roadside. We emerged from the mountains into an arid zone with minimal
vegetation except for occasional apple orchards and then down into the date
palm filled Rift Valley, then entering the desert. The mountains made us reach
for jumpers for the first time of the trip and then we needed the air
conditioning on full blast as we drove through a desert sandstorm.
This was the heart of Berber country and we saw many of the
nomadic tribe shepherding through the mountains and arid zone and the occasional
camp with traditional Berber tents. Ahkmed changed his language tuition to
Berber with even less success than Arabic.
2 comments:
Enjoying your travels don't think it's for us so therefore will enjoy yours. You must have good internet access. Gluten free out there or is Joy starving.
Hi Yvonne, Internet access has been great(and free)everywhere. No problems with gluten free for Joy most meals come with heaps of salad and the tagines & shish are always. The problem is with our waistlines as they always serve too much.
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