Climbing back with our guide

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Our group guide was amazing. He ran across the rocks with sure footing helping out everyone in the group when they needed it. He also filled us in with information about the communities that live in the Ourika Valley. Our guide lives at 3,000 feet up and makes the journey up and down the waterfalls 3 times a day.

He told us that, when it rains, it can take up to a week to c level executive list get down from where he lives to the town below – where we had started our journey. They go shopping once every few months because it takes so long to do.

He also told us that, when it starts to rain, sometimes groups get stuck and have to stay at the top of the falls for the night until the rocks are safe to climb. I was so glad Gary had decided we would climb before we ate – as the rocks got more slippery from the increasing rain (and we passed someone ascending the waterfall climb in stiletto heels!) I felt very lucky that such a good decision had been made earlier in the day and everything had worked out perfectly.


After our descent it was definitely time fora very late lunch! Starving, we headed to a little restaurant just as it started to pour with rain. There, we ate a set menu of soup, tagine and mint tea. The soup was lovely, and we ate it with fresh bread. I had a lemon chicken tagine with some cous-cous on the side, and it definitely filled the hungry grumblings of my tummy after such a long walk. We were stuffed and couldn’t manage dessert, so we drank a little mint tea instead before jumping back in the minibus to travel back to Marrakech.