Sat Sept 25 - we hike over a mountain pass and down about 500 feet and up AND over another mtn pass. about 4,000 feet gained. we were to get up at 7 but i got up for a bathroom break at 6 and the light was so beautiful and the day so quiet I stayed up. took some pictures and enjoyed watching the camp and the village come to life. After we started to hike I went to take apicture and my camera informed me that my battery was dead. my spare battery was in myother pack. Oh well. As we were walking up the first pass we saw five camels coming up the way behind us. It was a Berber nomad with his camels. He walked with us for a while talking to Mo and then his way separated from ours. came down a long loose rocky slope from the second pass and on the way down I figured out a way to dry my clothes that would save energy and money. will start keeping an eye out for internet as I have to print off my Ryanair boarding pass. lots of time yet.
Sunday Sept. 26 packed up and started moving down the river valley. steady downhill & went through an amazing gorge and then thru a second amazing gorge. walked in the stream for 2-3 k ankle to knee deep. Much fun. Got separated before lunch and a few of us were going to wait for the others at an intersection at the beginning of a village.stopped at a store with a fridge and cold drinks for sale. Wonderful. |good day. tomorrow short day and the van and the gite.
Monday Sept 27 walked down rough road through Berber villages. as before women were beuatifully dressed to work in the fields. this morning we all contributed to a tip which will be divided among the guide, cook and muleteers. We stop at a 200 year old kasbah which is 4 stories high and houses a family of 20. we get a tour and have sweet mint tea in the courtyard. we buy water and it is cold. Yeah! the women who go back and forth wear beautiful dresses that all of the women in our group admire. we walk on skirting farmed fields and occasionally picking a ripe fig which taste amazingly better fresh than dried. we stop for lunch and our van comes and the trekking part of morocco is over. we pack the van and say goodbye to the guide, cook and muleteers. he van driver takes group pics of us all. they will take 3 days to walk back to their homes and we will take a couple of hours to drive to our hotel in the Dades gorge which is amazing and spectacular andlined with new hotels and restuarants. I shower and change my clothes for the first time since starting trekking. |Feels very good! Before goign down to dinner Brenda asks me whether we 'dress for dinner' I say no and start to figure out what she has in all her luggage. she is nice but without any background in backpacking or travel where she can't take her hairdryer. |Good dinner at beautiful hotel in wonderful location and soto bed.
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