Ussef our driver said it best, "snow and the Sahara on the one day!" As we crossed the high Atlas mountains there was plenty of snow on the surrounding mountains and this combined with the Cedar forest and faux French Alps village did give the morning a European feel. But then we arrived into the desert and travelled through it most of the day. Rocky mountains and vast, barren countryside with barely anything growing apart from in the Oasis that do occur fairly regularly.
It was an amazing change of scenery today and the locals are starting to look more African and less middle Eastern. It would be an incredibly tough life living up here, herding your goats in 50 degree plus heat in the summer and sleeping in your mud brick house at -10 degrees or less. I don't know what would be worse, the harsh environment or the boredom. Life would be ground hog day, everyday of your life. They all have satellite TV, even the mud hut, so they know what they don't have but are a very long way from getting any of what they see. Note to self, don't come back as a Saharan nomad!
Dinner tonight was amongst the contents of the large tourist buses so when a camel was brought in to the restaurant it was to applause and camera flashes! May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your cous cous!
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