MY CORONA ARMCHAIR TRAVELS - SUNSET IN THE SAHARA, MOROCCO

The Sahara is extended over several countries, Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Western Sahara, Sudan and Tunisia. It covers 9 million square kilometres (3,500,000 sq mi), amounting to 31% of Africa. 

I have been visiting the Sahara in Tunesia, Egypt, and Morocco. Each hotel where I stayed offered sunset rides on a camel to the Sahara. Here are some pictures of the part in Morocco

We first drove in these jeeps to the point where we met our guides with the camels

One Berber teached us how to put the scarf around our head in a special way so that we were protected against the wind  and the sand  before we climbed on the camel !

In front of their straw houses two little Berber children

The way the families live, all in one huge tent together with the animals. The Berbers are all dressed in blue djeballas with the blue scarfs which sometimes covered the face until the eyes. I once experienced a sandstorm in the Sahara and we had to protect ourselves from the sand in a Berber tent. We had to pull the scarf over our noses to our eyes, the sand stitched like a thousand needles.

The Berbers were very friendly and invited us for a cup of tea

The goats stayed with us near the tend

Although there is nothing but sand and hills covered with sand there are beautiful shades of different colors

Here we are resting with our camels and wait until the sun goes down

I have no idea why I wore a red scarf

and while we were waiting for  the sun to set behind the hills,  there was no sound around us, it was so peaceful, you could hear the Sahara whisper in your ears. A wonderful experience !

 

 

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WEEKEND

I wonder when finally this Coronavirus circus will be over !  It doesn't look like, because after having announced that wearing masks outside is not necessary anymore, only inside or if there are groups of more than 10 people or so, it has changed again ! I must admit that it is not easy to follow the rules because they change all the time and you have to be a genius like Einstein to understand !   

As usual there was nothing, but really nothing going on ! Everything had been cancelled again ! Yes I could go to the cinema but see what ?? old movies from 2013 ! I can watch that for nothing at home on TV ! The streets are empty although it's a shopping day, but it had rained so much that you almost need flippers to walk and we also had had a storm during night and branches were laying on the street ! I had to put earplugs in my ears, because the wind made such a noise ! The only activity I made this Saturday was some shopping for cleaning,shower and shampoo products. I had lost all my socks and stockings during the move, lost maybe is not the right expression I had given them away with a bag of clothes !! Therefore I bought new once, socks, stockings etc because the temperature had dropped drastically and we had to put the heating on for the first time !!

From 30° a few days ago we had just 15 in the afternoon, during the night it had been very cold !

Rosie had to change her habits and stayed only for a little walk on the balcony then she decided  to better go inside and continue her naps.

Sunday was a bit better because our little group had decided that each time the weather is bad and Corona has cancelled the activities we wanted to do, to get together for a chat instead of staying home alone and get bored and depressed !

Nicole feels well for the moment, she is home and has no treatment for her brain tumor for a month. She is full of energy and had invited us all, and her cousin, who had been a baker had prepared delicious "Merveilleux" for us !

And here we are all sitting together and enjoyed the marvelous "Merveillleux" ! 

We are all feeling tired and without energy, this ubnormal life where even shopping becomes a burden, and nobody had bought a cloths since March, gets everybody on the nerves !