Saturday, May 18, 2013

Home again

IWell, after 26 hours of traveling, 12 of which was on airplanes, we are a home save and sound.  Tired but enjoying unpacking and finding all the treasures we bought and tucked away.

A heart felt thank you to Rachid, Fadila and Wadill, for making us feel so at home at Riah Linda, and to Linda for joining us while we were there. We would all highly recommended this as a place to stay, if you ever travel to Marrakech, Morocco.

To our two taxi drivers Allele and Abibe, who picked us up at the airport and were with us on all our travels, we stopped at lots of interesting places along the way and had lots of laughs.

To Amina, who traveled 12 hours on the train from Tangiers to meet us and helped as an interpreter, master barterer and guide us thought our 10 days.  It was also nice for her to see a parts of her country for the first time, the Sahara, and to ride a camel.


Even with all these special people we met along the way, the trip would not have been the same without the 9 of us who travelled from Ontario!  It was a great group of people and I thank each of you for sharing this experience.


Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Last dinner with Amina



Ahmed serving tea


Another rest day

Today was a rest day, Nancy J flew out this morning and we went shopping without her (sorry Nancy but we did pick up your goods).

The gang is out organizing our Hamman for tomorrow, we will get pampered before we leave.

This is Amina's last day with us, she has got her hands decorated with Hennas our plan we are planning a nice dinner out tonight.



Monday, May 13, 2013

Camp fire

Since I went to bed early in the desert I did not have pictures of the camp fire but here hey are

Sunrise in the Sahara

We were up waiting for the sun to rise.

And it finally arrives



In honour of Our Hospital this is why we give
Lining up ready to go
Although we enjoyed our camel rides our glouts, groins, abs, and lower backs were sure glad to see our vans and drivers waiting for us


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Camp

Dinner in the Sahara
Our home for the night
My bed for the night

Our tent

Washrooms and showers