Lake Iriki, another dimension and time

This picture is taken in the middle of Lake Iriki. There is no more water on the surface but there was 30 years ago. From one end to the other is about 30 km. Driving on this lake surface was an amazing experience. One can literally close his eyes and drive full speed at least with a car. In the middle of the lake is this small tea house.Our offroad trip took 4 days. After we left Medina we visited Gorges de Todra, a beautiful canyon. Our final destination was Merzouga. When we arrived to Merzouga, it was already dark. Finding the auberge we are going to stay was a challenge because we had to navigate in the dark an on sandy tracks. Thx to our GPS we managed to do that. Asking directions to local people is useless because they all try to convince you to stay at their hotel.Next day we met our crazy guide Salh and his brother Mohammed. Our tour for the first day supposed to be only 80km and it took us from 10am to 6 pm. The reason for that was the dunes around a village called elraina. I think we spent 3 hours in 10kms. Not only us did have problems with the dunes, our guide's 4x4 and many participants of the Aicha rally. Next day was even more difficult. We did 230 km on offroad tracks and sand dunes. When we arrived to the tent camp it was already dark. Last day with our guide we visited the Lake Iriki then drove on some Dakar tracks, had lunch in an oasis and arrived to Foun Zguid. First time asphalt after 3 days!The following day we said good bye to our friendly guide and drove towards Zagora on an offroad track again. 130 km of offroad track took us about 4 hours because the road was very rocky and we had to cross river beds multiple times. I guess the temperature reached 40 celsius. After Zagora, the road was asphalt to Quarzazate and magnificient with mountain passes. Yesterday we stayed at Bikers Home in Quarzazate, a cute place run by a Dutch guy and his Moroccon wife.