warming up

Today we got up at 8, had breakfast (some yoghurt, bread and egg) and met our guide for the next few days: Brahim. Very nice man. After packing our lunch bag we followed him up, up to a summit at approximately 2700m, in the beginning in the shadow and then quickly in the sun. Brahim explained us, that yesterday’s driver was the boss if Toubkal guide, the company our agency works with. Even though there is a bit of tourism here, a lot of poeple are unemployed. There are no jobs here and there is no spci security here. Now is off season and the tours are given one after another to the around 20guides. In winter there are ski tourers that can reach a couple of 4000m summit in little time. Up on todays summit we could see a telecabin station at around 3500m. In the summer many come to climb up Mt. Toubkal, like we are planning Rhere are also 5 day trips around the high atlas. It would be way more busy in summer. Sleeping is also possible at families, here are berber. There are three different region where they live and therefore also speak different languages. It isn’t a written language but they made some efforts to change that so it is easier to preserve it. Brahim speaks one berber language, arab, french, english and some german. And maybe some more, I’ll find out. Impressive. Looking forward to talk a bit more to him the nexr days. Today was just marvelous, the colors are amazing. We had lunch at the pass and then walked down again. All in all a perfect day. Back at the gite we had tea, shower and after a delicious diner we went up the rooftop and warched the milkyway. Cinema at its best.Read more