4 sachara

7:00. alarm tells us it's already light outside. we're on the road again. 'a quick stop for lunch and charging phone. no time for sights in small towns - it's a long way to sachara. after 8 hours driving we're in Merzuha - the place we're promissed to find the dessert. here it is - we see the dunes. 'a dosen people on the street trys to stop us and probably suggest a place to sleep. some even chase us with small motoebikes. we don't give up. we're our. no people, so we drive off the road to the dunes. after few minutes of photosession there's a boy on the bicycle, suggesting to 'trade'. ok i suggest trading his found stone to a t-shirt. no - he asks for two. so young and already so enterprener. no, 2 t-shirts is all i've got, so Nerijus gives 20 dirhams for nothing and he cycles away. we drive further. one more vilage. road's finnishes, but we find a post and decide to send our cards. one more Berber outside the car. at first i just want to say we're writing cards and don't need any help, but somehow we start talking. we're interested in driving into desert. he suggests showing former Dakar route to the dunes. he promises it will be possible to make like 30 kilomters with our car. we doubt about braking the car but after long discussion finally we agree. following 'berber gps' we go on gravel, sand stones. meet some trucks bringing stones. Said also works digging and looking for expensive rocks so he knows every truck driver. then there's a jeep. a guy with pistol on his belt starts talking to our guide. no problem, we can go further. that was military - we're close to Algeria's border. in another 'village' we meet some kid. we drive him to the place we're promised to get a sleeping place and shower. on the way we meet his older brother on a bike going to bring some bread. he sits in the car and the kid cycles for bread instead of him. it's already dark. we arrive to a house in the middle of nowhere. it's long and narrow house made of mood surrounded by mood wall fence. they treat us tea and as we say we like sitting at the fire they suggest going to dessert where are some men looking after camels. we agree and while walking in a black-dark dessert remember movie Turistas :). no, everything's ok. we find there men at the fire. they treat us camel milk and just baked under the fire bread with some special souce. they like our chease and chewing gum. we show our pictures from the trip and play some Lithuanian music from a cell phone. but they don't seem to be too interested. unfortunatelly they don't speak english so we have only one interpreter, who calls us japanese when we ask if we can take a picture :)
i don't know how, but we find a way back to house in darkness. it seems to be quite modern. they even have sun cell battery, so there's light. they use economuc bulbs and shows us the only place where mobile connection works. now we're in a tent made of camel wool. tomorrow we are promised to get hot shower and breakfast. of cause for 'a good price' :)
it's 2:49, so goodnight

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3 morning high in the mountains

it's morning high in the mountains where the roads already finnishes in some Berber vilage. we find a kid who promises to show a waterfall for 20dirhams. he guides us through the houses, narrow paths, and here we are. don't wanna see anything else? no, 20 will be enough for you. if you don't like to be cheated, you have to start doing that yourself: we follow the creek, find the hidden path, climb the mountain, and uolia - find several other waterfalls. the path begins to dissapear, mountains become dangerously steap, it starts to rain, so we decide to head back. anyway we're wet, so we decide to bathe under waterfall. yes, water is damn cold. but worth it. on the way back we find tourists walking up and lots of locals selling stuff. after half an hour bargaining i buy a gasol lamp for three times smaller price than in the beginning. it is handmade out of stone..

back to the car. must head to Quarzazare. at the car, we find out that we have to pay for parking for some guy who just wonders around cars so we just give the money and hit the road again. it's getting dark. clouds, wet road and hard turning wheel makes it difficult to drive. anyway we decide to reach Quarzazare, where every place we stop a car, we are met by locals trying to suggest us something. we start ignoring and driving away. not the best feeling in a stranger town at night. ok, we need to get our of here. we're out of town following our gps to a lake where we find some camper cars. we'll be safe here. some snacks and soon we're sleeping.