Ahead lies eight days of true rewilding in the last great unspoilt wilderness left on earth.
For many this will be a once in a lifetime experience.
We will meet in the ancient Medina of Marrakech.
After a magical night in an ancient riad we set off.
First traversing the bulwark of the High Atlas. Twelve hours of tortuous roads await before we gratefully descend into the Draa Valley.
From here we pass through timeless Berber villages, all the while the road becoming smaller and smaller.
Until one thousand kilometres south of Marrakech we reach the end of the road, both literally and figuratively.
For here lies M’Hamid el Ghislan and beyond it the mighty barchan of the Sahara rise.
For five thousand kilometres east the sand seas spread towards Arabia.
To the south another three thousand kilometres reaches down to the tropics of Africa.
It’s vastness and silence are beyond compare.
But it all begins here, now in southern Spain.
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