This morning we rode along the Dades Gorge here the red rock formations rise like long fingers out of the ground, and then deep into the canyon cut up the tightly twisting pass through the mountain, again every patch of land on the edge of the river is farmed by Berbers.
in the afternoon we are back into the deserts beyond the mountains, this is an arid rocky hilly area, where little grows, but, all the way there are remote houses, all have a small farming area growing something, there must be water deep beneath the ground as these people cannot survive here without water, so must each have their own well.
Also along the side of the road there are many ruins from the time that desert caravans used to travel on the southern side of the Atlas mountains.
We stopped for a short time had lunch of Pigeon Pastilla, a local dish, (which tasted good), and visited the casbah where the Raiders of the lost ark was filmed, didn't recognise anything, it just looked like other mud brick constructions that we had seen all over Morocco, which are like little self contained villages with narrow alleys twisting and turning in every direction like a weird maze, without a guide you would be lost.
Riding has been good, warm days, mid 20's & no rain, we stop tonight at a hotel in Ait Benhaddou which is on the old caravan route between Timbuktu and Marrakesh, in the distance we can see the snow covered Anti Atlas mountains which we will soon visit.
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