Ouirgane Things to Do

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You can like me intend to save spending any dirhams to find your way around the paths on your own and see where you turn up - I let a rather insistent local guy lead me around the place and in the end it was very worthwhile.

There are paths above where I stayed at Hotel Sanglier that take you along past houses that are interesting to photograph, including one section of buildings that my guide said had been where a movie had been made recently - cant remember the name of the movie - and made our way down through some streets that took us back to the main road and then up further we went into another section of houses where he and his family actually live - his sister has a gite here and showed me around it after showing me around her house and kitchen - where she had made fresh bread that she served me with the usual olive oil, honey and olives and sweet mint tea.
This was very nice and of course it was good to give her some money for that even though usually the hospitality is given with conditions but being a remote area with little in the way of tourists to earn an income they needed some money ....so a 20 dirham donation is not much for a nice visit to the home of locals.

I gave Hassan 50 dirham but he went on and on about wanting more - I didnt feel I should give him more as didnt want to make it too easy to be taken as just a wallet on legs, though I was feeling guilty about all his implorations for more - I asked Rachid, the guy managing the hotel for reassurance and he was adamant that 50 dirham was fine if thats all I wanted to pay.

I did get some nice shots and was glad to have taken the time to see the village.