O my god.....it's 0540 and the alarm has just gone off.....it is freezing and seems very light already....panic....have we missed it??? A quick dress and then out into the cold....even the sand is freezing....a few sprints up the sand dunes later we were greeted with the sun rising.....beautiful..... A quick breakfast and then back onto our steeds for a better and less sandblasted trip back to M'hamid.....after about an hour our guide told us to move back on the...

Our washing has dried overnight...novelty and perks of the desert! After some confusion at Chez Ali in Zagora over how exactly we were getting to the last town in Morocco before the Sahara we got in our hire car and drove almost another 100km! And not the easiest road to drive! An hour and a half later we were flagged down by a man in Berber man in a turban...Rashid; our guide and host for the next 24 hours. A quick drive to the last town before Sahara (very smal...

After a delicious fruit breakfast on the terrace of our Marrakech hostel we went in search for our hire car and headed out of Marrakech and away from city life-delightful! 4 hours later after some very windy roads up and over the Atlas Mountains (stunning!)and then through the rocky desert Rockies we arrived at Ouzarante (where Gladiator was filmed) and where we realised that we were only half way to our intended destination, Zagora. A very quick stop for lunch a...

Well.....our plan of a night bus to save on accommodation worked very well for one of us.....the other had no sleep.....after our long journey we decided to treat our weary feet and get a taxi to near the 'Auberge Ayoub'.....after a scandalous quote of 300Dh we got him down to 15Dh each.....but that was Marrakech Dh which actually meant 50Dh each.....we fought and then paid a little more than the original quote as it was 0540hrs and we both wanted a bed..... The...

After some unsuccessful bartering with the grand taxis to get us to Safrou for a reasonable (not tourist price) we headed to the train station in Fes for a day trip to Meknes (only 30mins by train). The train station at each end is miles from our destination or start point so by the time we had arrived in the Old Medina we had tired feet and were thirsty for our daily ration of mint tea! The town is clearly poorer than Fes and with very little tourism industry wh...