Month: December 2014
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Rockin’ the Kasbah!
Read more: Rockin’ the Kasbah!With the beauty of the sunrise fresh upon us, it was time to pack up from our camp and head out to explore some other interesting aspects of our desert environment. Maybe even a kasbah or two! Berber Music We took a short drive from the camp and visited a Berber musical group to listen…
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Sunrise and Sunset in the Sahara
Read more: Sunrise and Sunset in the SaharaThis is by far the easiest blog post I’ve ever had to write. Our adventure continued to the big dunes at Erg Chebbi, about 70 km from the Algerian border. We arrived at the dunes shortly before 5pm, with the goal of riding into the dunes on camels and capturing the last rays of the sun…
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Sahara Desert Experience
Read more: Sahara Desert ExperienceSalam! (Hello!- in Arabic) As part of our trip to Morocco, we wanted to ride camels in the Sahara desert. To get to the Sahara desert from Fes, we had to go on a long drive. We had a guide with us as well as a driver for our trip. Our driver Hassan and our guide Hamid…
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Marvellous Moroccan Medina!
Read more: Marvellous Moroccan Medina!Welcome to Fes, a city surrounded by a wall in Morocco. The wall was put there in the city’s early years to protect the citizens from invaders, but today it serves as a city border. Within the walled city is a medina, or a walled market place. Around 200,000 people live there amid the houses and different shops.…