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These images are the copyright of Liz Williams and cannot be reproduced without permission.
New Year Tour 2012
"Thank you for all the wonderful organization and attention to details. You made this trip memorable! Also, thanks for putting together a very eclectic group of fun, smart and generous people. This was a New Year hard to forget!"
"I would like to let you know how much I enjoyed the trip and the company of our mates. I would also like to join Manuela in her acknowledge of your savoir faire."
"I also wanted to say thank you to all of you for this wonderful trip!"
Erg Chebbi Dunes, October 2011
In October 2011 I spent 10 days living at the edge of the Erg Chebbi dunes and it was, as always, an amazing experience. I saw thunderous skies with driving rain, a flash flood river and a full moon in just a few days.
Every day I walked in the dunes at sunrise and sunset, sheltering in the hotel during the heat of day to catch up with emails. It was a pleasure to meet so many Authentic Morocco clients as they arrived in the desert to camel trek and overnight in our deep desert camp.
Rita Lazauskas, Morocco 2011
This selection of drawings were made by Rita on the Painting Tour in May 2011. The route from Marrakech to the dunes of the Erg Chebbi sand sea included Skoura Palm Grove, Ait Benhaddou and the coatal town of Essaouira.
The originals measure 23x33cm and are drawn from observation with willow charcoal and charcoal pencil on gesso-primed paper.
These images are the copyright of Rita Lazauskas and cannot be reproduced without permission.
Drawing Tour, May 2011
"I am still in awe of our amazing adventure in Morocco. Every day brought a new visual extravaganza. I will remember the experience and you all (Adhoul, Mahmjoub, Rasheed and Liz) fondly. Thankyou for a safe and well planned tour."
"I really had a ball. When I arrived back home my wife, Ineke, noticed how excited I was having had this opportunity. The next enjoyable task is to sift through the 1000 odd images & relate them to the sketches that I made at the time. Thanks for all your help & input into this trip. I really enjoyed it."
5-day New Year 2011 Desert Tour
"We thoroughly enjoyed our New Year trip with Authentic Morocco and really appreciated all the hard work that you put in to make it a smooth, fun and memorable tour. The whole trip was impeccably organised from beginning to end and we were very pleased with the standard of the accommodation, transport and also the food and drink that was plentiful and delicious. The guides were great fun to be around, very informative, and we admired their excellent driving skills through lots of varied terrain. The trip was a fantastic way to see all the different landscapes of southern Morocco and to learn about life there."
Photo Tour of Morocco, May 2010
These images were taken by Liz Williams on the annual photography tour of Morocco that we run in May each year.
We choose this time of year as Spring arrives late in the mountains and the contrast of the green wheat fields in the gorges where poppies are hand weeded by Berber women, the pink roses grown around Kelaa Mgouna where children sell perfumed garlands and the dunes of the Sahara where the shadows create classic images all present wonderful opportunities for a photographer.
Rita Lazauskas, Morocco 2010
This selection of drawings follows a route from Tanger to Fes, over the mountains as far south as Tamegroute, then via Ait Benhaddou to Marrakech and finishing in the picturesque coastal town of Essaouira in May 2010.
The originals measure 9x13cm and are drawn from observation with willow charcoal and charcoal pencil on gesso-primed paper.
These images are the copyright of Rita Lazauskas and cannot be reproduced without permission.
5-day New Year 2010 Desert Tour
”Thank you for making the Sahara New Year tour possible for me and the others. It was truly an experience of a lifetime and I enjoyed every moment of it. Please give my regards to your wonderful team of staff who have looked and taken care of all of us so well.” Valerie
Our 2010 New Year Desert Tour, to celebrate New Year 2011 in the dunes of Erg Chigaga, starts on the 30th December from Marrakech.
See: 'New Year Eve Desert Tour'
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Atlas Trekking, August 09
These images were taken by Liz Williams whilst trekking, with mules to carry the kit, in the High Atlas Mountains above the traditional Berber village of Telouet.
Having never trekked here before it was both a surprise and delight to reach Lake Tamda - somewhere I have wanted to visit for ages.
It was, in all honesty, a personal struggle to walk all day up the mountain side but hugely rewarding walking over the ridge to see the lake glistening like a jewel in the sunlight.
Photos on Tour, July 09
These images were taken by Liz Williams, whilst on a tour of Morocco, in July 2009. I set out from Marrakech, on the train, to Fes - it was an interesting journey but, by the end of almost 8 hours, I was happy to get off.
Fes, as always, was amazing and I thoroughly enjoyed a walking tour with our guide Idriss who showed me a few sites that I had never seen belore. From Fes I joined a 3 day desert tour to Marrakech that included one night in the Erg Chebbi dunes at Merzouga. After the trip I visited some nomad families in the High Atlas.
