High Atlas Mountains

We crossed through the High Atlas mountains travelling south to our desert camp in the Sahara. Our guide, Samir, changed his clothing today to his native Berber attire. He says we will be more accepted if he dresses this way and as a Berber he is expected to dress this way when he is in his home region. We are seeing our first "oasis" now. It is amazing that the surrounding hills can be so bare and the valleys so lush with crops and date palms. We called into a regional town and went to the market to buy our picnic lunch. we purchased beautiful crisp baked bread and canned tuna and some fruit.....Sharon couldn't resist a walk thru the meat section...she would have bought a goats head but had no where to cook it !!!! next stop the Sahara