Morocco 24 September 2022
Took the train from Biggleswade straight through to Gatwick south terminal then the airport shuttle to the north terminal. Flight on time - hooray, and the airport queues at Marrakech were short, unlike on my last visit.
We drove from Marrakech in the lovely warm weather through Asni and small Berber villages to Iimlil where we decamped and walked for an hour to our comfortable and hospitable riad - the Dar Tagine.
The Dar Tagine is set in a lovely valley above the village Aroumd. Sunrise, sunset and the local mosque below:
The area is peaceful and full of walnut and apple orchards. Scenes in and around the village below. Day two was a bit damp!
Before the tea ceremony where Jo and I were transformed to become Fatima and Mohamed.
Large lumps of sugar. The Berber people like their mint tea sweet!
Very tasty nibbles to go with the tea. The nuts coated with fennel seeds were particularly tasty.
Our guide, Abdeljalil was an absolutely wonderful man - cheerful, funny, gentle, knowledgeable and a very capable mountain man.
On our orientation walk around the villages we were followed by a dog - here with a goat's leg in its mouth. Didn't see any three-legged goats though.
