Rock the Casbah

We hired a car to take us into the Atlas Mountains on the edge of the Sahara desert to visit a Kasbah (a mud and rock dwelling in the most uninhabitable climate imaginable, not a British nightclub or Heidi Roizen's home). At first the mountains gave us a bit of refuge from the heat (dropped down to 105 or so). Then we hit the Sahara desert side and it felt like we were walking on the sun. Fortunately I had my new Vibram Chaco soles on - inferior soles surely would have melted on the spot. We saw where they filmed Lawrence of Arabia and other desert movies, saw some camels and had a guide with whom we had to communicate in our 2nd and 3rd languages. We also ran into a couple of snakecharmers with some serious pythons. Call a vet because these pythons are sick!