Palaces and The Sahara

[MEL_Traveller]

On souveniers… we found the cheapest place to buy the hand-painted pottery (bowls, tagines etc) was at the airport! Not because the airport was ‘cheap’ but because it was a fixed price in euros… half the price of any of the stalls in the souks

We picked up a 30cm diameter plate for €13… or roughly 130 dirhams. They wanted 400, dropping to 300 and then 200 in the suks!

Granted, the range at the airport is limited, but they still had 50-100 designs to choose from.

While driving there were local roadside market places with tons of pottery… that would have been the place to go.

 

[n7of9]

I'd save the Sahara for another trip so you can enjoy it properly - seated on your camel, striding across the dunes and arriving into the oasis etc etc.

I blame Egypt. My entire time there was 'in The Sahara' so i thought all of North Africa was

Are you buying many souvenirs?

Coasters And a hand woven blue silk thingy (they were calling it a sofa cover) I intend to use as a bed adornment

On souveniers… we found the cheapest place to buy the hand-painted pottery (bowls, tagines etc) was at the airport! Not because the airport was ‘cheap’ but because it was a fixed price in euros… half the price of any of the stalls in the souks

Good tip! I wasn't planning on getting anything breakable, but I'm a sucker for airport shops where I have nothing better to do

 

[RooFlyer]

I'm having a fabulous time in this TR, remembering the places I went in 2013-14 for work (looking for minerals). Have just got out my pics from those trips.

I now recall my options were more days in Morocco, which would have included a 2-day looooong drive into the Sahara and another looooong drive out, OR this tour which was fewer days, upgraded accommodations, and I could spend more time in Europe, which at that point I hadn't decided where in Europe I would visit. So, here we are. I'm now sat on my riad terrace balcony in Marrakesh, the Atlas Mountains behind us and we are no longer driving south.

You sure would have had to go a long way south to reach the Sahara. On a map find Tinghir and Erfoud . I rummaged around there for a couple of weeks and this is what it was like: (Hope you don't mind a couple of pics.)