Salt waterfall, caves & abandoned mellah

Tissint means salt in Tamazight. The town of this name boasts beautiful salty waterfalls and palm trees that shock the eyes after so much dry desert. To respect the Muslim town's modesty, Susanna sat in the shade while the boys swam.

In Tata, we visited the Missalit caves. Over thousands of years, the slow dripping of limestone-rich water created these gloopy looking stone formations.

South of Tata, we spent a few minutes looking at the abandoned Mellah of Tazart, a former Jewish walled community. Felt like a ghost town. We read that the town was abandoned after the region dried up; a palm grove right beside made us wonder about that.Leia mais