Ait Ben Haddou…or Do not. Your call.

I arrived in Ouarzazate yesterday rather late in the evening, on the bus from M’Hamid via Zagora.   I was happy that I knew exactly where I was going already, since I’d called ahead and talked to the guys at Hotel Baba about getting a room again and the hotel is…

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Ramadan Moon Rising

The day after I returned from the desert, Hassan invited me to join him and his family at their house in the evening, to celebrate the beginning of Ramadan.  I hadn’t really intended to still be in Morocco when Ramadan began, as I have been hearing horror stories about everything…

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Journey to Desert’s Edge

After leaving Legzira, I spent one night in a town called Taroudant. I stayed in a nice little riad, but was only in the town for a very short time, so although I walked around in the Kasbah a bit, I didn’t really go to any specific locations or see…

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