Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Sleeping & Eating
Gîte-Restaurant el-Khorbat
KSAR
€€
(
0535 88 03 55;
www.elkhorbat.com
;
Ksar el-Khorbat; s/d incl breakfast Dh475/550;
)
Seasonal meals of garden-grown pumpkin soup and beef tajines with dates (Dh80 to
Dh100) are served in the walled garden of the
ksar,
a regular stop for 19th-century Aït
Merghad nomads. The
ksar
is still inhabited, and you too can spend the night in this living
museum. Ten rooms are big enough to house a small, seminomadic tribe of your own,
with en-suite bathrooms, air-con and Tinejdad clay pots as lampshades. Excellent maps of
the
palmeraie
enable self-guided bike rides.
Shopping
Galerie d'Art Chez Zaid
( 0661 35 16 74; 9am-1pm & 3.30-6pm)
Snoop around this converted home of a local cal-
ligrapher and you might find Tinejdad-made crockery in the courtyard, sand-worn brace-
lets in the salon, and wonderful, well-patched nickel silver teapots in the kitchen. Located
in downtown Tinejdad, 200m after the Shell station on the right.
ARTS & CRAFTS
Information
There's an Attijariwafa ATM on the left side of the street across from the Tinejdad com-
mune.
Getting There & Away
Grands taxis run from the main market in the centre of town to Goulmima (Dh10, 45
minutes), Er-Rachidia (Dh20 to Dh30, 1½ hours) and Tinerhir (Dh20, one hour).
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Goulmima
POP 16,600
Located midway between Tinejdad and Er-Rachidia, Goulmima was once an ancient hub
of Berber culture but is now little more than a stopover on journeys east to the desert. In
