04 AUG 2017: They’ve got big eyes, furry ears and goofy, toothy grins– and they had us surrounded on the road in Morocco. It had hardly been the Marrakesh Express since we left Crystal Cruises’ Crystal Serenity on the two-lane blacktop road from Agadir to the remarkable walled city of Taroudant. But our bus ground to a total halt as the lumbering camels completely blocked the route.
It’s a normal road hazard in Morocco, the guide said. The herd was being moved to a new location by the nomads who own them, but the slightly loopy-looking group of two dozen one-humped beasts known in Africa as dromedaries had minds of their own.