We took another day trip, this time up/over/through the Atlas Mountains to the edge of the Sahara desert. Some views from the drive.
Our first town was Ouarzazate, the “Door to the Desert” and home to the largest movie studios in Morocco. We toured Atlas Studios. Everything is fake! Here’s Leena, driving a “chariot.”
They even have animals on the lot. Sadly, and not unexpectedly, they don’t seem very happy.
Our second stop was the Berber village of Ait Ben Haddou.
We could have taken a road with a bridge into town, but our guide thought crossing the river on a series of makeshift steps was a good idea. It wasn’t. After a bit of unexpected wading, we made it across soaked from the waist down. Oh well, at least the phones survived.
We toured a house in the village and climbed our way to the top.
