Finding an abandoned 50’s gas station is not that weird in Ouarzazate. As Morocco’s movie capital, there are three studios in town, and plenty of old movie sets (like this one from a horror flick called The Hills Have Eyes) in the surrounding countryside. There’s desert, of course, but also high mountains, lakes, and a very Southern California style landscape. The list of movies filmed here includes Lawrence of Arabia, Gladiator, The Last Temptation of Christ, and most critically the upcoming Sex and the City 2.
Our nomad driver, Abdulrahim, told us that he worked as Brad Pitt’s driver during the filming of Babel. “Brad Pitt is good man, shy man,” he informed us. We drove up the mountain road where the bus shooting scene was filmed.
