We spent 3 nights in the Moroccan Desert | Umnya Luxury Desert Camp

Hey guys and welcome to a new Laura and Nicolas vlog. So after some incredible time in Marrakech as you saw in our previous vlog we now made it to the Sahara desert. We drove about eight hours from Marrakech to the most southern town of Morocco called Mohamed. Where a nomad picked us up in a 4x4 and from Mohamed we drove another two hours through the middle of the desert and then we finally arrived at our desert camp where we will spend the next three nights completely alone. Incredible. So we are staying in a tent. We will show you that later. It's the most incredible surrounding. It is so quiet here and just incredible. It's a holistic experience for sure. It is just us and four nomads who stay here pretty much full time. So yeah we're just gonna spend three incredible days here and we will show you. We're so excited. That's our tent there by the way. This is our tent. Let's go! Okay so first things first. We climbed up the highest dune here and we are gonna watch the sunset. We made it just in time because the sun is setting right behind me. This is so insane. Like I have never experienced anything quite like this. As far as you can look it's just sand dunes. It strikes me as well as the silence here. Yeah it is so silent. It's just me talking the whole time. And a couple of flies. Yeah we do. We're gonna enjoy the sunset now and we'll see you guys later. Okay so we just watched the sunset and I thought it was a good time to explain a little bit about the camp. So I think there are like eight or ten tents here. But every tent is in its own little valley. Yeah so surrounded by dunes. So you have complete privacy all the time and you have the feeling that you're completely alone in the desert. Right now we are because we're the only guests here because covid hit those desert camps quite hard. But even if it's fully booked you'll still have this idea of seclusion and of being completely alone. So yeah we're just gonna wait here for probably like 20 more minutes. See the colors change and then we'll go back to our tent. Get ready for dinner. That's in the main tent so we'll show you later. So beside our tent which we'll also show you later. Probably tomorrow because it will be dark. But yeah there is a main tent where everyone goes to have dinner and sit by the fire in the evening. We'll probably show you that tomorrow as well because it will be dark as well. So yeah you'll see a lot of stuff tomorrow. But also a little bit of stuff tonight. So for you guys like right now. Okay that's enough. Okay so we just walked towards the main tent. The main area. And they lit all these candles and fire for us. It's just out of this world. It's really hard to capture what the vibe is like. But it's incredible. Wow. This is insane. Let's go have dinner. We just had the most incredible dinner and now we're just going to enjoy our little tea by the fireplace. It's just super super cozy here. And then we're going to go to bed. And I think we'll try to wake up quite early tomorrow morning. I think we'll wake up quite early no matter what. I am still mind blown by the way by how they can cook such amazing food here in the middle of the desert. I just don't understand it. Without like running water and stuff like that. But yeah we're gonna relax a little bit here and then we'll see you guys tomorrow. Sleep tight. Good morning. So to be honest we both didn't sleep that well because it was pretty windy. And our tent made a lot of noise. The bed is incredible. My face. This place is so beautiful. Oh I'm falling. There's a lot of wind. There is a lot of wind. But yeah we're on our way to breakfast now. It's about to fall here. And I don't know what today will bring us. But yeah we're in the Sahara and we're gonna make the best of it. But first some tea or coffee. Okay so we are back at the place where we were last night. But now we're having breakfast. And there are no candles. There are no candles. No. So we're having bread because bread is the most important thing to Moroccans in their cuisine. It's bread. They eat bread with everything. And then we have. I call this some kind of pancake. But it's actually memmen. Msemmen. Msemmen. I don't know how to say it. We ate it on our food tour. Yeah. In Marrakech. In a previous vlog. So this is like that but then a plain one. Then we're having some kind of cake. And then there's always like different kind of marmalade, honey or I don't know like even oregano oil maybe. I don't know. So yeah Nicolas is having some eggs. We're obviously having some typical Moroccan tea. Some fruit juice. So this is basically a full breakfast here in the middle of the desert. I'm not gonna keep saying it that it blows our mind. But it does blow our mind. And sorry because I have a sore throat and my nose is running. Covid. I don't have Covid. Cold. I have a cold. Okay so after breakfast we came back to our tent because it is so windy outside. So there is not much to do. So Laura and I for the first time in our five-year relationship actually played a little game together. We played Trivial Pursuit. And I won. I got six cheeses. Laura got five. But there was a little catch to it. Yeah it's cheese no? Is it a cheese that you have to collect? What? No? What is it? Like pieces of a pie? Yeah. So I got six. Laura only got five. But it wasn't very fair because Trivial Pursuit was in French and Laura's French isn't that good. It's good but not like Nicolas. So I had a slight advantage. But yeah so now we're just waiting in our tent. Apparently at noon the wind should calm down a little. That's the thing like you can't go out in this wind because there's just sand everywhere. You can't open your eyes. So we have to stay inside. Yeah and our tent is getting very sandy as well. Because we didn't close it completely so there's sand everywhere. But let me give you guys a little tent tour. So this is our living area. We got a little heater there. We got some books. This is where we played Trivial Pursuit. And here on the right another little seating area. And our wardrobe which is looking pretty messy already. Everything's looking messy. Yes this is our bedroom. So unfortunately you might wonder why this is there. I try charging the camera with my laptop because there's no other way of charging it. There is no electricity here. Otherwise I can't film anything. So yeah this is our bed. Super comfortable. And this is our bathroom. So we have a dry toilet right here. So basically you just take a dump and then you put some of this in it to cover it up. We've got some running water here. This is just like for your hands. Because it's like all filled up in here. And if you have a look below it's just where everything goes in. So it's all like very basic. Very basic but it works. Yeah it works. And this is our shower. So if we want to take a shower we have to let them know 20 minutes beforehand. And then they will heat up water for us and just like put it in here. Yeah we will show you once we take a shower because we haven't. And we have no idea how it actually works. We just know that we have to tell them if we want cold water like hot or in between. Yeah and then you just have to stand in here. I think I don't know. We'll show you. I think it's something with a pump. Yeah I think so too. So yeah this is our tent. This is actually they have two types of tents here. This is the bigger one of the two. Yeah like we said it's a big mess here. But we will show you the outside area as well later. We're not going to go outside with the camera now because otherwise it will get full of sand and we don't want that. So now we wait. Okay so in the meantime we had some lunch and I read the first five chapters of Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code. I watched the movie already but I've never actually read the book. So my goal is to finish that book by the time we get out of the desert. But yeah there is a little less wind now. So Laura and I will start taking photos and we will start with a little photo here right in front of our tent and we'll just put the result right here. Okay so for the past few hours we actually just have been shooting photos because it's just so beautiful. So that's the only thing we've been doing since the last time we picked up our vlog camera. But yeah for sunset we decided to come back to the same sunset spot as yesterday evening. So we're watching the sunset right now. It's super beautiful. We have a little Moroccan tea here. Then we'll have a super exciting dinner. So we're just taking it all in and enjoying as much as possible because this place is just... I cannot put it into words. It's incredible. Oh and also we are going to bake bread in like the nomadic way how they do it in the desert. So I think it will be super interesting. We'll see. After sunset that's what we're going to do first. Okay so it is time for dinner again. How crazy was that? Sorry it's so hard because we're constantly switching between like English and French. It's difficult. But anyway how crazy was it to see the bread like baked in the sand? I think it was crazy and it was delicious. It was so good. Delicious. And there was not a grain of sand in the bread. Not at all. So they just put like some oil over it, some olive oil or whatever and then just eat it. That's mostly what they eat in the evening just with some tea. They don't need another like baked dinner like we do. For them lunch is the most important thing. So that's when they eat the most. But anyway we had some nice conversations with them. I learned some Berber. That was interesting. I already forgot all the words. Good morning guys. It is pretty chilly this morning. It's ice cold. But we wanted to wake up to see the sunrise so it will be worth it. Hopefully it's already like super beautiful, so calm. And last night by the way we had an incredible evening. Yeah so after dinner we just went to the tent with Mustafa and Ibrahim and we just played music, sang songs, smoked shisha. Well I did, the others didn't. They taught us some Berber. We taught them some Dutch. And it was it was so funny like we literally like laughed so hard with them. They're like so sweet and so fun. We talked about culture a little as well. That was very interesting. The way they grew up, the way their parents lived. Wow so different than what we're used to. Yeah it's crazy to like realize that their parents literally lived in the desert like as nomadic people. It's insane. But yeah anyway we are going to watch the sunrise and then we'll see you later. All right so after a cold sunrise and delicious breakfast it is time to take a shower. We haven't showered here yet. No because the thing is one thing we learned while traveling is sometimes you really don't need to shower every day. So here in the desert as well we would love to take a shower every day. But taking a shower is a luxury obviously. So here we decided to only take shower once because you have to ask the people here to prepare water for you. It takes about 20 minutes and then they have to carry it all the way to your tent. So we don't want them to work too hard and we want to stay as ecological as possible. So we decided to only take shower once which is today. And we're gonna show you how it works. So they just brought us the water. Come into our bathroom. So these are the showers. I think that sometimes to make it look more beautiful they put it inside this so you don't see like all this. But so you just have to spray it like this and you really have to do this. Lock it in like that. Don't waste all that water. So that's it. So we're going to take a shower. Okay so we basically spent the whole morning just laying in bed, reading, chilling, relaxing. But now it is time to do some active stuff. Laura wants to sandboard. I want to play golf. There's actually plenty of stuff to do here. To sandboard. We've both never done it before. Okay I think it's safe to say that Laura won the snowboarding competition. Or the sandboarding competition. That's because I snowboard and he skis. I'm a skier. But now we're gonna do a little golf competition. Well Nicholas is going to be better at that. I'll probably win this one. Definitely. Let's do this. Let's start with a sand wedge. I think that's appropriate. What? Babe you're so good. I can't even. Ah that's all sand in my face. Time for the big one. Time for the big one. I cannot see that ball. It is over the hill. What are you for real? Now I have to go get it. Guys you just saw how Nicholas did that. I'm going to lose 100 percent. This might be very funny. Another one. Without a lot of swing. Do a full swing babe. Not bad. Not bad hey. Good job babe. So obviously Nicholas won the golf. So we had to do a third game. Which is bow and arrow. And then we'll see who wins. Because I won the sandboarding. Nicholas won the golf. So let's go. This is my first time. I've never done this before. Let's do three arrows each. And we'll just add up the points. That is zero. Seven. 16 points for me. Nicholas's turn. Six. Wow. So that's 15 points with two arrows. So basically I just need to hit the target now. And I'm the winner. Winner winner chicken dinner. All right so in the meantime it's already around sunset time. So we are going to go on a camel dromedary. I don't know what it is actually. We're going to have like a little walk around here in the Sahara. So very excited. Okay so that was honestly an amazing experience. I sat on a horse before. But never on a camel dromedary. They are so much taller than I expected. So big. It was such a serene experience as well. Just walking in the desert. And just seeing no one. Quiet. Silent. And just like sitting on it. And just like watching all the surroundings. Yeah it was it was incredible. Yeah highly recommend doing it. Yeah. Anyway tonight we're gonna have one last dinner. I think they're gonna do a little special setup. Music and everything. Yeah. So we'll bring you guys along with us. Oh we're so excited. You'll see. We're gonna get ready first. And we made it to our dinner setup for the night. Wow it's hard to imagine that this is in the middle of the Sahara desert. We are so grateful. Sorry I'm like... To experience this. It's one of the most romantic setups I think we've ever had. And we've had a few. And we've had a ton of them all over the world. And this is just... I love Brahim. Because he set this all up. And he's like... I saw him preparing everything. He was like with the candles and a little bit like that. I'm like oh he's the best. He's the best. Okay guys so that was actually the last part of this vlog that we recorded. Because our battery died. And as we mentioned before we just didn't have a way to charge our camera there. So yeah I guess that was it. In the meantime we left the Sahara as well. We had the most amazing experience. The people were incredible. Obviously the location is just... I cannot put it into words how you feel. You literally feel alone on the world there. It's incredible. We highly recommend it to anyone. But if you want... Well maybe... I'm not sure if we should tell you already. But we might do a little giveaway so you guys can stay there as well. And have like a full experience just like we had. But for that you have to check out our Instagram. Because between now and Christmas something will come up. So keep an eye out for that. Also make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel. Because for Christmas we have a very very special trip planned. It is one of the most incredible places. Especially for Christmas time. Yeah. So just hit that subscribe button and watch our next video. So this is Laura and Nicolas. And we will see you in the next vlog.