"The Morocco Experience" Video
Going to Morocco can be a profound experience for an Adult and for those of school and college age the trip will have a lasting effect on their future. Morocco is where Africa meets Europe, a vast mix of rich and poor peoples who are being slowly led into a twentieth century industrial society.
The Morocco Experience Video VHS runs for 24 minutes and was especially made for Discover Ltd. It follows a group from the UK on a 10 day trip with Discover, which crosses the Atlas and journeys south into the PreSahara and also a second group visiting "La Kasbah du Toubkal".
The conversion of the derelict "La Kasbah" at Imlil for Discover took a
relatively short time after years of planning and purchase formalities but
its now been turned into a spanking new Field Study Centre and Auberge
situated above the Berber village of Imlil in Moroccos High Atlas Mountains.
Its a stunning spot.
As the plaque by the Kasbah door says, "Dreams are only the plans of the reasonable.... "
It Shows:
- a party from St Johns School, Leatherhead arriving in Morocco for the first time.
- The first day in Marrakech, with visits to the Markets, Tanneries, Brickworks, and to the Place of the Assembly of the Dead.
- The journey to up to Imlil in the High Atlas via a country market, the rather unconventional trip up to the village in a lorry, arrival at "La Kasbah du Toubkal" and trekking in the High Atlas.
- Part of the opening celebration of "La Kasbah" with singing and dancing by our Berber neighbours.
- An interview on the benefits of fieldwork in Morocco with Tony Binns of Sussex University, a Past President of the Geographical Association who has contributed to an authoritative book on "Marrakech and the High Atlas".
- The journey in minibusses across the High Atlas passes to the Pre-Sahara.
- The journey down the River Draa to Zagora, the markets, fieldwork at Tamegroute and Tinfou, and views of a camel Safari made by The Dragon School Oxford.
- The return to Marrakech and the evening entertainment in the square..