Today is Friday and prayer day. We will catch the CTM bus at 16:30 to arrive in M’Hamid around 22 hrs. Hotel is booked and we will supposedly be picked up upon arrival. M’Hamid with 3000 inhabitants should be the last village before the desert. 40 kms north of the border to Algeria. Morocco and the Polisario had isolated this caravan stop until mid 1990’s when accords allowed M’Hamid to start hosting visitors again. We are looking forward to see the large dune landscape and the ‘Blue Men’.
The day before yesterday we visited Ait Ben Haddou, 32 kms west of Oarzazate. This mountain village was an 11th century caravanserai. Today only 4 families live here, streets are deserted and falling apart. One might recognise parts of the village from movies like ‘Lawence of Arabia’ and ‘Jesus of Nazareth’.
From the ruined Agadir on the top there is a manificent view on unforgiving Hammada (stone desert).
Yesterday, 14 February, we took a small taxi (beige) to the Tourirt Kasbah of which one third has been carefully restored by Unesco.
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