Travel makes you smarter.
We went down to the docks to see the wonderful active sights of a small fishing operation where the men sew the big holes in the nets and patch all the holes in the hulls while the gulls steal the meat right from under the working knife of the fish cleaners . The birds and [...]
After spending an uncomfortable moldy night in a dirty wet room in a crappy smelly hotel, we found a really great room at the clean Hotel Central . It was a riad style house where the rooms on all three floors look out into the large open atrium in the middle of the building filled [...]
Aït Benhaddou is a fortified city (ksar) along the Ouarzazate River on the former caravan route between the Sahara desert and the city of Marrakech . Most of the town’s inhabitants now live in a more modern village ot the other side of the river; but, ten families however still live within the ksar which [...]
On Wednesday we rented a Honda XR250 enduro motorcycle and Thursday we left for a ride toward the Erg Chebbi sand dunes near the little desert town of Merzouga . We spent the night in Taddert and Friday arrived in Boumaine to a warm reception by a lovely family who welcomed us into their home. [...]