visitors in tinjdad

At the begining of this month, some members of my family came to visit me in tinjdad,my work town. there was mom, my sister, my mom's young sister, and my cousin who is a teacher in primary school.
No one of them has ever been to the south of morocco. so it's been a totally new experience for them, especially to my sister who is not that used to being away from home and traveling.
anyway, they arrived to tinjdad at 4.30 in the afternoon of a scorching sunday.they looked pretty exhausted and shocked by the distance that actually exists between home and where i work.
i wanted them to go through it all for them to see how hard it has been for me to be that far from home.
when they got to my house i felt incredibly happy to feel their presence in the same place where i had to spend full ten months by myself. well, there were few friends around me but not for along time, sadly!!

we visited some acquaintances who welcomed my family into their houses. we went to palm oasis of tinjdad, went hiking up tinjdad mountain, which was so much fun with family. we visited tinghir, a town 54km away from tinjdad. they super liked it. i like it too but they seemed to enjoy to more than i ever did. they did a lot of shopping there and liked the well-mannered way shop keepers deal with their customers. however, what was much much more stunning to them was Les Gorges de Todra, high mountains with a river through them 14 km away from Tinghir. they simply fell in love with that place to the point that they did not want to come back to tinjdad :)

we had fun taking pictures, and exploring the incredible heights of those glorious mountains, and some of the caves that exist there. it was breath taking. it's always been so everytime i go there. there are also some beautiful oasis in tinghir that are worth stopping for and admiring for some time.
Sadly, my family couldn't stay for a long time though i wanted them to.
but i know i'll go back home in a week from now and things will be just fine.

one thing i really wished at those happy moments is to have my friends: Layla, Aura, and Najiya or at least one of them with me to share it all. oh well!!