Honeymoon2: Marocco

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October 30th 2007

Published: December 14th 2007

Adam had never been to Paris, so we flew from Paris to Marrakech, taking the TGV from Geneva. We met up in Paris with my uncle, JB, his wife, DIDI and my aunt, Chantal and rode bikes around to discover Paris by night. Yap! Bikes! There is a new system in Paris, called Velib (www.velib.paris.fr): every 300m are bikes stations where you can pick up or return a bike for super cheap (free for the firs... Read Full Entry

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Caroline George

SwissMiss

As a child, my family and I would spend our holidays on the road, with climbing as an excuse to explore different countries every trip. This part of my childhood forged the life I lead today: through guiding, being a professional athlete and being married to a passionate climber, I live a life of constant discovery, exploration and adventure. Sharing stories and pictures of my travels and adventures with people I love gives purpose to this amazing life I am privileged to live! ... full info

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Dunes

Yogi-ing it out!

Sunrise in the Sahara Dunes!

Berbere tent

Sleeping in the "Grand Oasis"... "very special place for you , my friend!"... lots of friends there: about 250 other people slept there that night! Special is a very relative concept!

Moha

Moha hosted us in the Todra Gorge and accompanied us to Merzouga... very nice and interesting person with lots of charisma.

A little stretch.... on the dromadary!

Fossils

The whole area is well known for its fossils. Our "dromadary guy" sold us some he carved out himself.

Maroccan architecture

Ossikis

At the end of the Dades Gorge lays the little town of Ossikis, from which we traversed onto the Taghia Gorge. Big doubts as to whether or not we would leave, since we were headed straight into the storm on the picture.

Mohamed with the donkey

Traversing from the Dades Gorge to the Taghia Gorge involves lots of riverbed crossing, 10hrs of hiking and lots of rain!

NOT a good idea!

Drinking straight from the source didn't do my stomach any favors. I was sick for the rest of the trip!

Between passes

To reach the Taghia Gorge, you need to go over two passes. This is in between the passes where we were caught by a snow storm

Hiding from the rain

In a berbere little hut, somewhere between Dades and Taghia

Taghia

A little village that looks like it's from the Middle Ages! Amazing place!

Said's hostel, Oujdad and Taoujdad

Gorgeous Taghia

Aicha

Big limestone wall... 800m high!

Sick!

Stomach sick and cold at Said's in our room

Playing games

We had a game on my phone that we fought over to play all the time. Quite pathetic!

Said and Fatima loading up the mule with our bags

Leaving Taghia

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