Two long days and finally back at the hotel. Our tour to the Zagora Desert started on thursday with a pickup at 7AM. The Atlas Mountains delivered some amazing views during our very long drive to the desert. On our way to the Zagora Desert, we made a very interesting stop at the little town called Ait Ben Haddou. What's so interesting about this small village is that it's been recognised as a UNESCO Heritage site due to the TV productions that has been created here since 1960. To mention just a few: Cleopatra, Prince of Persia, Gladiator, Indiana Jones and most recent Game of Thrones. As I'm a fan of Game of Thrones, the village was used to represent the slave trading city of Yunkai.
Our journey continued and we were finally able to ride into our small camp in the Zagora Desert. At the camp we had some tea, a Moroccan dinner with live music. After a long night sleeping in the extremely hot tents, we got up at 5:30 to watch the sunrise. Breakfast was served and soon after the journey started back home. Our driver was apparently a huge fan of Celine Dion because this was the only music he was playing during our trip to the desert and back.
A lot of hours spent sitting in the car, and I would definitely recommend to do a longer tour in order to possibly spend more time at the camp, riding the camels or see proper sand dunes.
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