Draa Valley in Morocco
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The Draa Valley
One week in Morocco across the Draa Valley with dromedaries, local guides and a bunch of hikers.
The Draa Valley
Six days in the desert sun, with no service, and you even forgot that annual event that has marked your time since you were born. No one around you knows it, no message can get to you, no app notification, no promotion cut to your age group. You are caught up in the landscape, the dunes, the colors, the silence and the stories of others. You are looking for the next morning hike, the next tajine, the imminent awakening, the next break with tangerines and nuts, the end-of-day sight of tents and dromedaries, but you are in no hurry to know how much time has passed.
You forgot, it’s over. It comes back to you a few days later as you are brushing the sand off your face, but it’s gone now, and you wonder if the best way to celebrate time is just to forget it ever went by
Experience a change
“The single most important fact about tourism is this: we already know what we will be like when we return. A vacation is not like immigrating to a foreign country, or matriculating at a university, or starting a new job, or falling in love. We embark on those pursuits with the trepidation of one who enters a tunnel not knowing who she will be when she walks out. The traveller departs confident that she will come back with the same basic interests, political beliefs, and living arrangements. Travel is a boomerang. It drops you right where you started.
If you think that this doesn’t apply to you—that your own travels are magical and profound, with effects that deepen your values, expand your horizons, render you a true citizen of the globe, and so on—note that this phenomenon can’t be assessed first-personally. Pessoa, Chesterton, Percy, and Emerson were all aware that travellers tell themselves they’ve changed, but you can’t rely on introspection to detect a delusion. So cast your mind, instead, to any friends who are soon to set off on summer adventures. In what condition do you expect to find them when they return? They may speak of their travel as though it were transformative, a “once in a lifetime” experience, but will you be able to notice a difference in their behavior, their beliefs, their moral compass? Will there be any difference at all?”
By Agnes Callard
That’s the point: did you experience a change?
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