Frankie's Travels Day 7 - Ouarzazate Valley

We left the Dades Valley in the morning and wound our way back out from the bottom of the valley and back onto the open road. We stopped off to take pictures of an impressive huge red rock formation called the Monkey's Fingers.

Our next stop was at the Atlas Studios in Ouarzazate which has been used as a location for several films such as Gladiator, Cleopatra, Babel, Star Wars and Prince Of Persia.

We then drove another 25km and stopped off to view and photograph a really old Casbah in Ait Ben Haddou. Again a popular film location. The Casbah is one of the oldest in Morocco and is made of mud and straw bricks.

Throughout the journey so far today we have seen many old mud and straw buildings. Some are in good shape, some are not and look like giant abandoned sand castles on a hill.

With two nights in cold locations and the amount of dust in the air and in the bus, at least half of the people on tour with me have caught a cold and the bus trips are a symphony of sniffing and snuffling and blowing noses and sneezing and coughing. Honestly I am surprised that it took me this long to get a sniffle... Sadly my stock of Sudafed is running low. Stocks in Moroccan Tissue Factories are Up...