Our own camp fire, a night or two under the stars wild camping and then throw in some modern art as well – it was an irresistible combination!
We posted one photo to Facebook a few days ago via our Instagram account, but it was such a lovely location and couple of days, we wanted to share some more of our experience.
The view from our terrace!
Wild camping, or free camping, is not as easy to find in Europe and Morocco as it is in Australia, especially when you have a tent as obvious as Chubby Coleman!
One tent, one rock, one mountain
But we found a spot in the valley of Les Roches Peints – the Painted Rocks – near Tafraoute and made camp.
The setting sun over some of the Painted Rocks
The rocks were painted in 1984 by Belgian artist Jean Veran and apparently a team of Moroccan firemen…. They are dedicated to the woman he loved – she must have been bould(ered) over!
Pink, blue and black – not sure what that says about the artist’s feelings!
She got painted rocks, we got sunset, stars, the moon and sunrise surrounded by the drama of the naturally red rocks. We think we got the better end of the deal – but check out the rest of the photos below and we will leave you all to be the judges – what do you think?
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