…..”And the moon fell on the desert’s silence, and a man’s journey in search of treasure….” “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho.
The desert is another dimension, a world apart from what we know and expect. In the expanse of the dunes there are no distractions to appreciating man’s greatest treasure - his own soul. Nothing exists but the undulating sand, the expansive sky, the moon, the stars and silence. Here, there is room for meditation; reflection on the essence of life and the magic within it.
The power of the desert is omnipotent with the sudden rising of the winds, the shifting sands and the constant need to search for life giving water. The desert’s secret touch is about learning our own humility and coming away from this sacred place with each memory and experience etched into our minds, providing us with priceless treasures.All this majesty is one of the treasures of Morocco. There are a number of options available, but one of the best we have come across is offered by Desert Majesty SARL who offer a superb service and a unique opportunity to experience the desert in all its splendour. At sunset or sunrise with the dawning of a new day, from the heat of midday to the cool of evening, when the colours of the dunes shimmer and reflect inimitable hues or whilst trekking on a camel sharing the rhythms of life of a Saharan nomad; if only for a few days or hours your time will have you savouring the spirit of the desert and understanding why the world’s three great religions of the book stemmed from here. For the single reason that no value may be placed on the desert because man is exposed to its whims.
Desert Majesty SARL are based in Ouarzazate
Contact:
Felicity Greenlaw-Weber
00 212 (0)661 23 56 36
Abdelhadi Slimani
00 212 (0)671 66 04 94
www.desertmajesty.com
info@desertmajesty.com
Hay El Wahda No 1865
Ouarzazate
Morocco
“The essence of life is unpredictable. The greatest joys are experienced at the moment they are least expected….leaving deep longings in the heart….” “Wind, Sand and Stars” Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
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The most beautiful description of the Sahara that I have ever read is by Paul Bowles:
"Immediately when you arrive in the Sahara, for the first or the tenth time, you notice the stillness. An incredible, absolute silence prevails outside the towns; and within, even in busy places like the markets, there is a hushed quality in the air, as if the quiet were a conscious force which, resenting the intrusion of sound, minimizes and disperses sound straightway. Then there is the sky, compared to which all other skies seem faint-hearted efforts. Solid and luminous, it is always the focal point of the landscape. At sunset, the precise, curved shadow of the earth rises into it swiftly from the horizon. You leave the gate of the fort or the town behind, pass the camels lying outside, go up into the dunes, or out into the hard, stony plain and stand awhile, alone. Presently, you will either shiver and hurry back inside the walls, or you will go on standing there and let something very peculiar happen to you, something that everyone who lives there has undergone and which the French call "le bapteme de la solitude."It is a unique sensation and has nothing to do with loneliness, for loneliness presupposes memory. Here, in this wholly mineral landscape lighted by stars like flares, even memory disappears; nothing is left but your own breathing and the sound of your heart beating. A strange, and by no means pleasant, process of reintegration begins inside you, and you have the choice of fighting against it, and insisting on remaining the person you have always been, or letting it take its course. For no one who has stayed in the Sahara for awhile is quite the same as when he came.
Perhaps the logical question to ask at this point is : Why Go? The answer is that when a man has been there and undergone the baptism of solitude he can’t help himself. Once he has been under the spell of the vast, luminous, silent country, no other place is quite strong enough for him, no other surroundings can provide the supremely satisfying sensation of existing in the midst of something that is absolute. He will go back, whatever the cost in comfort and money, for the absolute has no price."
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