A Cup of Tea in the Desert

How do you manage to get an invitation for a cup of team in the Sahara? Very simple, you decline every invitation for a desert tour on a camel or with the 4x4. Those tours are offered to you long before you have seen the desert in the middle of nowhere by the Berber people. Those nomads stop you in the middle of a road and start making you offers and want to offer you a very special tour. If you finally made it to the desert you don`t stop you just go on – you even ignore the offer of a sweet 10 year old who wants to show you the dunes for some Dirham. But those you can already see from where you are. You drive towards the dunes on a pad till you get stuck in sand. Till the tires of your small little rental car get stuck in the desert sand and you need help. In our case we got help from Jan.






She came from a close by very traditional Berber camp without electricity and water.








She called also her Berber host Abdullah and with their help we got the stuck car out of the sand. And as we go to know each other, we were invited to the Berber camp to have tea with them and had a nice conversation.






We found out we had some things in common with Jan. While she was studying she was 1 year in Berlin – so she spoke German, later she lived nearby Cork and now she returns again and again to the desert in morocco for vacation. The world is incredible small. We promised that we recommend this nice place as an oasis of tranquility and we keep our promise with pleasure: Iguiditours.