Saharan adventures xxx

Day 5 in Morocco, again quite a bit of travel and have arrived at our next hotel in Todra..this morning after a pastry filled breakfast I filled up a cute little bottle with Saharan sand before some of us went on the Merzouga land cruiser experience.
We started by visiting the camel station where local people leave their camels to be social 🤣 there were so many of them.
Next, onto a little oasis where saw chestnuts and peach trees, altho when our leader says peach, it sounds like he is saying bitch which makes us laugh. There were quite a few frogs just floating down the reservoir channel lol. We made a quick visit to a mostly abandoned coal mine, a few individuals still risk the danger.

Then the 4×4 started and suddenly we were being thrown all over the show, it was wild being driven fast over the dunes but very exciting. We were taken to local nomad homes and had some mint tea, the little boy there took a liking to me and my earrings 🥰, and we saw how they lived and gosh was it wild.

Then we went to lunch and after that saw some locals play instruments and sing a little.
We have finished the day seeing some gardens that belong to local tribes, I believe there are 32 local tribes and they each have their plot of land which is usually inherited down by generations.

It gives them ways of providing for themselves.
They can irrigate their piece of land at a certain time in the month, there are local laws which each tribe must abide by when it comes to their turn, oh and the water comes from a local spring.

It was a welcome cool area and even started to rain a little bit apparently this area can be known for thunderstorms and flash flooding.

So then we went to the Todra Gorge to end the day and wow what a magnificent place and where the springs start.

Now at the hotel where will freshen up and go for dinner with some tour mates, chicken kebab for me.
I'm knackered, group tours are wicked but can be fast paced and pack alot in..with long journeys on the bus. I wouldn't change it tho, I'm having a wonderful time 💖 xxxRead more