Ksar El Khorbat

Not far from Tinjdad, approx 7 km towards Tinerhir, you find one wonderful Ksar El Khobart, worth to visit. It is an ancient Ksar, a fortified village, made of soil, in the oasis. It is still inhabited, many people are living inside, so it is very genuine place. Nice place, interesting to go through the whole building, one big such building. There are many small gates, more like tunnels than gates, it is such labyrinth of gates and tunnels can I say.

I took one promenade through, it was nice walk, exploring of all places I could find there. I met schoolchildren on the way to the school. They had funny for my a few Berber words, touched my hair, laughing and talking, but I didn't understand, of course. So many Berber words I couldn't.
There is Museum and also handcraft workshop for woman and all them try to keep this Ksar alive as much as possible for to protect its historical and architectural patrimony.

For me it was extra exciting because it was my dream to see one Ksar inside also, to go through those narrow gates and so, to see how it is built, but never have been lucky to do it until now.

You can even stay there over night in Gite Elkhobart which is located just inside the Ksar.

There were many stairs here and there, to the right and to the left, up and down, so you could almost get lost if you forgot which side you would taking to go up.

It was very nice and comfortable room, spacious also and it was worth the money because it is not every day you have possibility to see any Ksar inside. Though the price was good, 400 DH including "royal" breakfast.

Very exciting it was there, almost for me, I loved it to go overall and look and so.

So nice interesting architecture it was, which work they had when they built all those Ksour and Kasbah and made it only of soil, incredible.  It would be interesting to know, how many years it took before it was finished.

So even a swimming pool it is there, suit good when it is really warm weather. Wonder how warm it is inside then, but probably not so warm even if it is 40 degree, maybe?

Nice, but a little sparse oasis around, anyway nice to walk around and look at the life around, children playing, women hanging laundry, men cleaning dry leaves, etc. Calm and tranquility is everywhere so I had no desire to leave, but ... ☺