18:21The best 18 minute road trip you’ll have today. A journey from Marrakech to the edge of the Sahara desert. Filmed on location on the road to desert from Marrakech to the foot of the Erg Chebbi desert southeastern edge of the Sahara desert in MOROCCO. A three day two night road trip that pass through the Atlas […]
18:21You arrive at desert camp bouchedor by dromedary caravan to reach the bottom of the dunes of the Erg Chebbi desert. Dinner and then around a campfire spend an evening listening to desert songs of the touaregs. In the desert of Erg Chebbi at the edge of the Sahara, close to the village of Merzouga, is […]
18:21Merzouga is a village in the Sahara Desert in Morocco, on the edge of Erg Chebbi, a 50km long and 5km wide set of sand dunes that reach up to 350m high. The small village of Merzouga is known for its proximity to Erg Chebbi dunes in southeastern Morocco, a Saharan erg, and it is […]
18:21Todgha Gorge, or Gorge du Todhra is a canyon in the eastern part of the High Atlas Mountains in Morocco, near the town of Tinghir. Both the Todgha and neighbouring Dades Rivers have carved out cliff-sided canyons (Arabic: wadi) on their final 40 kilometres (25 mi) through the mountains. The last 600 metres (1,969 ft) of the Todgha […]
18:21Dramatic rock formations at the ‘Monkey’s Fingers’ in the Dades Valley, also referred to as the Monkey Paws mountains. The Monkey Fingers or Monkey Paws mountains is near the Dadès Gorge, next to Aït Ouglif and is located in Souss-Massa-Drâa, Morocco. The River Dades was an important trading river along the Route of a Thousand Kasbahs, and […]
18:21Aït Benhaddou is a mud brick village on the edge of the High Atlas Mountains that climbs up the side of a hill like giant sandcastles, in Ouarzazate province, southern Morocco. Aït Benhaddou is an ighrem (fortified city or palace in English, ksar in Arabic), along the former caravan route between the Sahara and Marrakech in […]
18:21Atlas Mountains stretches around 2,500 km (1,600 miles) through Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. It separates the Mediterranean and Atlantic coastlines from the Sahara Desert. The range’s highest peak is Jebel Toubkal, with an elevation of 4,167 metres (13,671 ft) in southwestern Morocco. The Atlas mountains are primarily inhabited by Berber populations. The Atlas was formed […]
04:24Nilaveli, meaning “Open-land of the moon-shine” in Tamil, is a coastal resort town located about 16 km North-West of Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. It used to be a popular tourist destination, however due to 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and Sri Lankan Civil War tourist numbers have declined, until 2010 onwards, we can see a significant increase in […]
05:53Bagan, located on the banks of the Ayeyarwady River, is home to the largest and densest concentration of Buddhist temples, pagodas, stupas and ruins in the world with many dating from the 11th and 12th centuries. The shape and construction of each building is highly significant in Buddhism with each component part taking on spiritual […]
09:37Wadi Rum is a spectacularly scenic desert valley in southern Jordan. This area of Jordan is quite isolated and largely inhospitable to settled life. The only permanent inhabitants are several thousand Bedouin nomads and villagers. There is no real infrastructure, leaving the area quite unspoilt. Apart from the Bedouin goat hair tents, the only structures […]
Founded in 1989 in the area in and around the Dana village and Wadi Dana, the Dana Biosphere Reserve is Jordan‘s largest nature reserve. The village itself is a sight of sorts, being constructed mostly from traditional stone and mud houses. It is very small however. Mostly rubble and fallen, but there were little signs of renewal in what […]
05:53Old post town, Tsumago, in a historic preservation area with important traditional buildings. There was a main road from Tokyo to Kyoto about three hundred years ago, its name Nakasendo, can be translated to “road through the central mountains”. At that time, Japan was ruled by the Shogunate. If you were there, you would see […]