A trip to a berber village

On Thursday afternoon Shane and Kevin (my husband and brother-in-law) arrived in Taroudant from Marrakech...it was really good to see them!
On Friday I took the day off from my voluntary work to join a tour to a berber village not very far from Taroudant. We walked around the village looking at trees, plants & herbs and what the berber people use them for eg: some very fragrant basil used as decoration at a wedding for good luck but not for eating.

home made organic soap made by the berber women

this woman is trying to shoo the cat away before demonstrating how to make flat bread-
delicious with argan honey-mmmm!

the bread was cooked in this earth oven

Our vegetable tagine lunch- bezzaf!

The men in the village make simple pottery like tagine pots and little animal sculptures sun dried and then fired in an open earth kiln and the women make soap. A cooperative from Pembrokeshire handed over the recipe to the berber women. The soap is organic and made from olive oil, argan oil, soda and lavender.

The women helped us to arrange our head scarves berber-style

Then we took a tour around the village
this man was making tagine pots using a foot-operated wheel

This is the open firing kiln

various hand built items for sale

could I squeeze one of these in my suitcase?!

a typical berber kitchen

My berber-style headscarf!