After a picnic lunch in an oasis we travelled on dirt roads to an "Auberge"...hotel in the desert at a place called Merzouga, which we found out later is only 70 kms from the Algerian border. Here we packed our small backpacks for our camel trek and overnight stay in the Sahara.

We rode the camels for 2 hours into the desert...arrived with stiff legs and sore bums to our nomad tents in the sand........we trekked around a bit...had another tagine on a carpet spread on the sand...washed it down with some wine we had brought with us...and slept in our clothes....woke at dawn to watch the sun rise and rode back to the hotel....The Sahara is breathtakingly beautiful in its isolation and never ending scenery...an unforgetable experience ( except for the sore bum)......washed at the auberge and set off for our Berber guest house....more soon