Five of us hired a local guide to take us up to this world famous gorge. Our guide Uzat is a bit of a jack of all trades, or so says his 'CV'. He's born and bred here in the gorge and worked on the set of Mission Impossible II (that rock climbing scene is right here and they just air brushed in the ocean); he takes kids from BBC's Blue Rabbit on a fifteen day trek from here to the high Atlas where we were 8 hour drive away earlier this week, then onto the Cascades, and in his spare time he drums at the guest house and organises everything from transport to the reception and steamed goat meat banquets. And still manages to take daily treks up to the gorge and knows everything about geology and ancient Berber cures for bleeding noses, stiches and headaches.
The landscape reminds me very much of Simpson's Gap near Alice Springs, the colour of the rocks, the steepness of the climb and the panoramic view onto the flatlands surrounding it. This really is my ideal holiday: adrenolin, open air, and seeing the land from above. It clenses my temptuous head and reconfirms my faith that people and the land are one. And that getting out there is what will always make me enriched and happy. Heres some pickies of me and a young friend born last week...
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