When Barbara Best met a nomadic goatherd in the Sahara desert, it was a moment of chance – there was nothing stage-managed about it. The Berber woman was simply asking for water, without hesitation Barbara’s husband handed out a bottle. Two women from different worlds, “She has a life I…
You can’t possibly do and see everything that Morocco has to offer in one trip. If you can experience our top 5 things to do in Morocco that will be eye-opening enough (and, hopefully, inspire you to visit us again!).
We are often asked the question about the Moroccan Sahara – which is better to visit, Erg Chebbi or Erg Chigaga? Difficult to answer that one on an impartial level, as Yahya hails from the desert region closest to Erg Chigaga. However, we do always give practical advice, depending on…
We first took the idea from seeing friends’ pictures from the Bolivian salt flat – imaginative use of bottles, books, cartons, toys, even the transport vehicle itself – to create brilliant optical illusions.
We are grateful to Ovos Photography for allowing us to share some of their work. They took a short trip with us recently from Marrakech to Erg Chigaga great dunes, in the Moroccan Sahara Desert, and the images of their desert trip through the Iriqui National Park are breathtaking; we…
Created in 1994, Iriqui National Park was established to protect the biodiversity, flora and fauna across 123,000 hectares of south-eastern Morocco, and in particular to preserve the temporary wetlands of Lake Iriqui, at the heart of the desert.
