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- Lahoucine guides Marc and his family in the Medina.

- Destination:

- their Moroccan host’s house where the French will spend their first night.

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- How do you say thank you?

- Shoukran.

- When I saw proposals of “Visions of the world” that there was the possibility to spend the nights and the evenings at someone’s, I found it much more interesting.

- We already spend too little time in the country, so it's a good option.

- To travel differently, that is how it starts:

- a visit of Marrakesh Old Town that their host spontaneously offered to them.

- This time, Marc, his partner and their 3 children had been expecting it for a long time.

- It is an old project. To travel all together, that’s not easy, financially it has been several years that I am thinking of living with such an approach.

- In the beginning I thought of leaving with the children one at a time per year.

- Marrakesh is only a stop-off.

- The family will spend 15 days in a village of the Atlas, 4 hours away, at Lahoucine, their guide.

- The villagers welcome them warmly, they know that those tourists participate by their coming to the development of their valley.

- The idea is to develop fair, sustainable and joint tourism, in collaboration with the people of the village of Alt Ayoub.

- Some agencies come by, they ask me for the fair, I refuse as we wouldn’t ear much with their salary,

- so we tried to set fair prices,

- at the same time a percentage go to the development project, a very important thing.

- Can you see how the field is split, with little heaps.

- In Itayoub, the villagers wanted to bring drinking water to the village.

- They could do so thanks to the 3% put back into every trip by the organizers.

- Now it facilitates things quite a lot as there is water in the taps, there used to be no taps but wells,

- and if there was no water inside, we had to fetch it further in the next village.

- 10-15 years ago, 5,000 people lived here and now 13,000 people live in the valley,

- so if all those projects can avoid rural exodus, allow people to stay here,

- and to repopulate a valley that, as soon as there is water and work, there is all they need.

- It helps villages around and about 65 families.

- The importance of the implication of the local people is that they are the ones keeping the projects after it ends.

- The project of Leon park about drinking water, when we end it and the villagers will get it back and they are the ones who will maintain the project after the associations have left.

- Far from tour operators, Lahoucine, Hassan and the people of Alt Ayoub concocted a perfect hiking and visit program for the Bulteau family. A useful experience for all.