This fabulous photo essay was authored by Amira El-Masaiti and Mosa'ab Elshamy and published on the AP News today. I share it here in its original, unaltered format. AP PHOTOS: Laborious saffron harvest unites Moroccan village
Where Berber Girl finds a suitable summer home in the High Atlas, and suffers a shopping fail in Marrakech...
Where we visit YSL's memorial, the Musee Berbere and Majorelle Gardens before spending an evening in the Jemaa el Fna.
We drive down a street so narrower that we wonder how much paint we're going to lose. Doug's GPS isn't matching the streets. We call the hotel again, who offers to send a guide...
We'll log 200 miles today, leaving Skoura for another kasbah, a castle, and a film studio...
The Atlas Film Studio is the second largest in the world, and the site of some of my favorite movies including Kingdom of Heaven. What a treat it was to tour ...
We head to Skoura, where we would visit a 17th century citadel, and I would fall in love ... with a loom!
One last short camel ride in the Red Dunes, before continuing on to Tingher and Tomboctu.
Today's the day! My camel trek into the Red Dunes ofErg Chebbi - part of the Western Sahara and the tallest sand dunes in Morocco.
Today we will climb into the Middle Atlas Mountains to see wild monkeys, and to a kasbah in Merzouga, at the edge of the Western Sahara.
