Dadés Valley
La Vallée des Roses
Entering the “Valley of the Roses”, so called for the local production of roses
(the “eau de rose” is massively used by the locals
The Moroccan way of drying laundry
Not much traffic on this track, the only company we have is that of Berber
nomads, living in the little caves surrounding us
The glory of the M’Goun Massif
Great landscape and the setting sun adds magic to the the natural colors.
Our rental Logan is behaving well on this rough track :-)
As the night approaches we are less and less sure of where we are heading to!
And the track is only becoming worse... In the darkness, we finally make it to a
sealed road and stop at an auberge at 3 euro each for the night
The Dadès Gorges
Mohammed, the owner of the auberge and a talented cook (his couscous wins the prize as the best we had during our 2 weeks in Morocco), serves us some delicious mint tea, after we discovered that the track we took landed us in the Dadé´s Gorges, 40 km further down the road than expected!
We spot the local “olive oil producers”, where we buy some freshly crushed oil
The local souk, where we stop for clementine shopping
The Gorges road at its highest point
The downside of tourism: at every stop kids run towards our car to sell fossils and stones
Women on the road, just before Msemrir
A turtle, stuck in the gorge
The “ape fingers”
Taking a walk in the gorges
Women from a village going to the mosque
