Lovely casbah hotel.

Huge amount of building…. Most privately owned by European Moroccans. Onto High Atlas Mountains this morning.

Going to Dades Gorge (2.5 hour driving)view of most beautiful, Valley of 1000 casbahs on way to Ouarzazate. Unbelievably spectacular!!! Very Berber architecture. Boumalne Dades is the name of this town.

Women carrying grass to feed to animals at home. Hard working women looking after home, children and husbands while men are drivers, policemen & like.

Then we got out and walked the Dades Gorge….. amazing, awesome spectacular rock formation of the gorge. The switchbacks….OMG!!!Motorcyclists…. This would be your dream road!!!

City of Roses…. “Kalaat M’Gouna” Once a year festival of roses… roses, rose water, perfumes and crafts… from what looks like wild rose buses. They bloom in April or May. Pink taxis too.

Skoura….. Amridil casbah … oasis 25 sq kms …. From 17century…. 150 casbahs. Used for movie making.

Needs 4 floors and 4 corners. Old made in pyramid style wider on bottom…1.5 (?) metres thick walls to smaller the higher it was built. … no hole in bottom floor for prevent attack. Made from mud and straw. Tamarack… doors. Stairs were of different heights for protection.

About 100 people lived in casbah… 20 in each of 4 salons with separate bedrooms for boys and girls.

Near Ouarzazate… golf course and rentable homes… also jet ski on the lake. 2 million power customers by solar plant…. Largest in Africa. State run power grid but no rhyme or reason to charges.

Roads are generally very good but lots of road building going on.

96,000 people living in Ouarzazate… cinema city