The palmerie at Nekob is obviously suffering. No rain for years has left a once flourishing fertile area into a sad brown forest of dying palms and empty fields.
It's hot and before we leave Nekob, we walk into the palmerie and see for ourselves the effect of the drought. I am totally under dressed and soon will follow the palms if I don't find shade, a typical tourist! Cover up boy.
Krysia, Jaimie and Storm are far more appropriately dressed, although the saying 'mad dogs and Englishmen' comes to mind! We venture into the heart of the dry valley and find a sad, empty place which is so in need of that magic ingredient of life, water!
What we get in abundance at home is a rarity here. We'd love to share a bit of ours with a bit of yours! Water for Sunshine? mmm
Time to move on, it's very hot and we've a long drive to get to Merzouga, our destination today.
The Picnic.
Well you cannot drive through the day without a stop for lunch and with limited choices and endless desert! we pick a fine spot to pull off the road and set up our sun shade. Without the awning we would be fried alive! Instead, in the blazing midday sunshine, we eat like true nomads of the desert.
Look everyone, there's another vehicle coming!!
Slight exaggeration but it is a very isolated road and it is very comforting to have our new engine working so well.
In an endless landscape, a beautiful Jaimie stands proud to be here. The young ones have been looking forward to their adventure for many months and it has the magic ingredient, sunshine, to warm up those winter blues.
So lets pack up and move on to the Dunes of Merzouga, the Sahara we imagine, camels and sand.
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