It was there that I saw some marvellous work being done in setting up small-scale businesses run by local people-mainly in the production of handicrafts for catalogue sales.
And after a couple of days exploring the villages and valley in this majestic gorge, it will be time to visit yet another of Morocco's unique and marvellous sites: the Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou.
Now there's long been this idea there is this marvellous stuff in red wine called 'resveratrol' which is said to reduce your risk of all sorts of things.