Walking With Nomads

25/07/2024

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My Nomadic Kitchen is 100% unique. The only Food Tour in Morocco travelling with an experienced chef. Created out of a deep passion for clean food, sustainab...

23/07/2024

Discover the flavours of Morocco with Steph. Check out her immersive blog about our unique food tour, where she and her brother journeyed with a pro chef discovering the culture through its cuisine.

MY NOMADIC KITCHEN is a private food tour brought to you by Walking With Nomads and Ourika Organic Kitchen.

Photo credits to Sennivisuals

Unique Multi-Day Cultural Food Tour in Morocco. A private tour with driver & organic farmer / chef, offering an immersive culinary experience

02/07/2024

For all the foodies out there - enjoy our new video.

After all - understanding the culture of a country all comes back to the plate.

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My Nomadic Kitchen is 100% unique. The only Food Tour in Morocco travelling with an experienced chef. Created out of a deep passion for clean food, sustainab...

04/03/2024

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68450147.amp

Scientists collected radioactive sand grains in the dark to understand when they formed.

03/03/2024

We are thrilled to be launching a selection of ORGANIC FARMING WORKSHOPS.





and more and more!

These are one day experiences held in the countryside surrounding Marrakech. You will be immersed in Moroccan culture and tradition whilst learning some life skills to take home with you.

Get in touch for more details.

11/02/2024

Souk shopping for picnics (and anything else that distracted us 🤣 ) in Taroudannt.

04/02/2024

Weave and Wander with Aisha.

We organised a surprise for our clients and they wrote all about it here.

Love to know what you think.

Meet Aisha the Basket Weaver and explore the woven tales of palm leaves and tradition with our authentic Moroccan experience.

25/12/2023

My Christmas present ❤️🎄❤️

Thank you all for your support in 2023 and we'll be back, bigger and stronger in 2024.

Love, love and love because that's all there is.

Linda

02/12/2023

Photo credit to Diego Dicarlo

Diego came to us as a photographer and captured some amazing shots including this one in the wind.

01/12/2023

Yahyahyahyahyahyahya

30/11/2023

Thanks Noble Tourist - amazing pictures as always. Really bringing this experience to life.

12/10/2023

09/10/2023

Morocco is so much more than the Disney World of Marrakech.

Come and see the real Morocco with us.

08/10/2023

The story teller

07/10/2023

30/09/2023

Noble Tourist is a sustainable tourism community who believe in our ethos of tourism with a gentle footprint.

20/09/2023

Check out these beautiful photos of visit to Taounate all organized by Hicham Nouri Hlimi .

18/09/2023

Tears, tears and more tears.

While Morocco's major cities escaped much damage, the earthquake that struck the country caused much devastation in the High Atlas, the impressive mountain barrier that separates the Haouz plain, where Marrakech is located, from the Souss plain, where Taroudant lies inland and Agadir on the coast.

This jagged mountain range is home to a few small towns and, above all, a large number of villages in the valleys and foothills.

Usually considered a marginal region, this Berber-speaking area of the High Atlas has played a key role in Morocco's history. It was here that a powerful religious reform movement, the Almohads, took root in the Tinmal area in the mid-1120s. Like Saint Bernard who founded the Cistercian order in France, ibn Tumart who founded the Almohad movement, was all about spirituality..

The Almohads established an imperial state whose domination extended across the entire Muslim West, from the Maghreb to Al-Andalus (the Islamic Iberian Peninsula).

Home to the tomb of Ibn Toumart, Tinmal became a place of pilgrimage as a holy city and sanctuary for the reigning dynasty.

The architecture of this imperial state is not that well known to tourists, despite the mighty minarets with which the Almohads loved to adorn the shrines of their capitals: hence the famous Koutoubia, an unmissable landmark in the Marrakesh landscape; the enormous and unfinished Hassan Tower in Rabat; or the Giralda in Seville, a minaret transformed into a bell tower by the Christians after their conquest of the city in 1248.

Hidden away and assumed protected in the heart of the High Atlas mountains, Tinmal was the best example and a major center of Almohad power.

The fall of the Tinmal Mosque is a loss that has broken my heart but when I spoke to a dear friend from nearby Taroudant who told me he'd always wanted to visit it but never had - I realised that I was blessed to have wandered the ruin and a building like this lives in our hearts forever.

RIP / Tinmel ###

15/09/2023

A DARK SIDE OF AID

The rescue effort in Morocco's mountains is absolutely amazing but of course nobody was trained in how to do this and so some serious problems are emerging.

From trafficking (see Day 6 post on So Morocco ) to mechanical diggers being unable to get through the 4WD convoys moving the donations, to the environmental cost of delivering (and often dumping on the side of the road) supermarket products, plastic wrapped into areas with no way to manage the rubbish.

These beautiful mountain people live pure and simple lives. They are self sufficient. They have mountain springs for water, goats and chickens for milk, cheese, eggs. They have olive oil, almonds and fruit.

But they have no way of recycling plastic and packaging and are not used to eating the type of food they're receiving.

However, there is a positive development. PolluClean Maroc are taking charge of recycling all the waste generated from donations in the Al Haouz region but this is just a start.

Much more efforts will be required to clean up.

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14/09/2023

Sleeping bags too.
We need sleeping bags.

13/09/2023

Can you do either of these?

10/09/2023

Another day gone, a few minor aftershocks and all attention turned to the rescue effort in the mountains.

For animal aid please donate to Jarjeer Mule and Donkey Trust who we've supported for years as they're an exemplary organisation who are taking in equines hurt in the quake.

For humanitarian aid there are many options and MarocMama has a comprehensive list on her website. I'm aware of a couple of people who I trust who are in the worse affected areas that are mobilising aid efforts now and they're my preferred route as they know exactly what's needed in their area and how to get it into the right hands. So I'll keep you informed on that. The Amal Women's Training Center and Moroccan Restaurant are another trusted option.

Whilst the situation in the mountains is extremely serious and desperately sad, the general feeling elsewhere in Morocco is that tourism is continuing pretty much as normal. The main roads are open, the airports are open, flights are operating and tourists are still arriving.

There are no travel advisories stating travel is unadvisable from any country that I'm aware of despite the hype on the press.

One of our drivers had a tour from Marrakech to the desert starting yesterday and encountered no issues on the route. There has been some damage to a couple of the monuments but the journey was safe and uneventful.

We're aware that some clients with trips not in the immediate future haven't heard directly from us yet. Please bear with us as we're dealing with everything in order of priority and the team is very fatigued and emotionally drained. We will get to you but have obviously needed to do a lot of fact finding first.

You're welcome to contact us direct or we'll be in touch in the upcoming week.

Thank you all for your outpouring of love and support.

Linda

18/05/2023

Are you surprised to know that the desert is not just sand dunes but several types of terrain?

16/05/2023

The wonder of a desert well!

19/04/2023

Ever heard of Turtle Valley?

Really interesting blog about M'ifis.

The desert village of M'ifis was suddenly abandoned in the 1950's & left to dissolve into dust! Discover all about this Ghost Town in Morocco's Erg Chebbi