Frankie's Travels Day 6 - Todra Valley and Gorge

We stopped off first for a top view of the Todra Valley. The entire area has steep craggy mountains (imagine Drakensburg region but all brown no green.) and square buildings built up the mountain sides. The streets are narrow and hemmed in with the flat facade of the buildings. The buildings are earthy oranges and whites and pinks and grays and this contrasts well with the green of the palms and the red-brown of the valley walls.

Then we drove up and around some steep bends and into the Todra Gorge. We stopped at the bottom of the gorge which has sheer walls going up about 300m. The first comment of several members of the group was Where do they do the rock climbing? (Roy, I know you're reading this... You would have told us to leave you behind.) We walked a little up the road at the bottom of the gorge while hearing about the flooding in the gorge in 2006 when some people died. We were able to see on the rock face, the effect of the high waters.

As the gorge is deep and narrow and we were there late afternoon, we were feeling very cold, very quickly. Fortunately the bus met us at the end of our walked path and we packed ourselves back in and made for the Dades Gorge. (Pronounced almost like Daddy's Gorge) To get there, we are travelling along the Road of 1000 Casbahs. A Casbah is a fortress house often with at least one tall tower in the corner. (I am unsure if I got this correct in the previous post about a Casbah...) I can confirm we have seen several Casbah's in passing already. I want a tower in the corner of my house. It looks pretty hardcore. Now as the sun is setting we're looking towards getting to Dades.

I made the joke, if the Dades Gorge is a fridge-chilled as the Todra Gorge we could sing:
"Dades, Dades cool..." (get it right?)