The drive to the Sahara took over 13 hours. The driver played some of the most incredible music, which on returning to Fez I hunted down to bring back home with me.
The Sahara journey was pretty amazing. We spent the first few nights at Bivouac Gnaoua, home to traditional Gnawa musicians. We slept in tents on beds piled with heavy, heavy blankets to keep the cold at bay from the desert’s evening chill. At night while we at a traditional tajine meal the musicians would perform around a large fire pit.
During the day we had a guide drive us out to a Bedouin camp and there share the traditional Moroccan mint tea and smoke the hookah. We visited ancient ruins and later had home cooked Berber pizza in the middle of the desert.
We rode camels deep into the Sahara, climbed the dunes and watched the sun set over the desert.
We met a holy man, watched women hand sew intricate designs without the use of patterns, and visited an ancient city.