Carol's Travels

Irrigation system at oasis town

Two common modes of transportation: donkey and bicycle

Walled city of Tafilalet

Berber Museum, Torture Yoke Engraved in Hebraic Characters

Atlas Mountains

Largest reservoir in Morocco as seen out of the bus window during the rain

One of the rooms in our suite

Sitting room in our suite

We rode camels on the Sahara this morning.  The temperature was pleasant when we rode them at 9:39 this morning.

We visited a farmer who had 100 date palms.  He showed us how he hand pollinated each branch.   We also saw how he irrigated them.  Then he climbed up one of the trees.  He is very agile at 64 years old.

This is date harvesting time.

We went to Kahmlia where we heard a group play percussion and sing some Moroccan songs.  It reminded me of the times I played Afro-Cuban rhythms in drum circles.

Our tent at the OAT tented camp where we stayed two nights.

New OAT Sahara Camp opened this summer – dining tent and meeting tent

Some of the sleeping tents

Sahara sunset that I saw on the second night

My henna tattoo against the Sahara sand during the sunset

On our drive to the Sahara Desert, we first stopped at a factory that made tables and other decorative items from the fossils that are easily found in the desert here.

Then we stopped for tea at a woman’s house.  We chatted quite a while with her and her two sons.

This is her kitchen.

We went to our camp, then we drove to a house where the daughter gave us henna tattoos.  This is mine.  After the henna dries, henna can be flaked off to reveal a red design.  It usually lasts a couple of weeks.  Women have henna parties where everyone gets a henna tattoo.

Nomad tent

The nomad family that has settled down for the last seven years and stayed for n me place.

Sunset on the Sahara