The Morocco photo directory
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006Here’s a directory for our Morocco photos, in chronological order:
- Volubilis. Roman ruins.
- Three days in Fes, a city known for its 9th century medina. There are photos of a cooking lesson and our trip to the tanneries in this set.
- After Fes we drove south through Erfoud, Zagora, and the Sahara. Lots of photos of dunes, Maggie feeding (or counseling?) monkeys, and some rocks. There’s much more to say about this part of the trip. Let’s just say that the south rose again and leave it at that.
- After that we left the desert and headed for the High Atlas mountains, home of Mount Toubkal, which any native will tell you is 4,167 meters tall.
- We spent the next two nights in Essaouira on the Atlantic coastwhere we enjoyed by far the best food in Morocco outside of Marrakech.
- Finally, we spent five days in Marrakech before throwing ourselves back at the mercy of Royal Air Maroc for our trip home.
There is plenty of Morocco not shown on this map, but in that part of the country instead of roads they have land mines, so we decided against exploring there. There are no pictures of Casablanca because Casablanca is as romantic as an exhaust pipe, a disgusting, humid, smog-choked financial center (and I couldn’t find batteries for the camera). We only spent our first jet lagged night there, so you’re not missing much.
June 22nd, 2006 at 7:30 am
“Let’s just say that the south rose again and leave it at that.”
So can we assume you found an “easy” drugstore selling Moor-Rockin’ Viagra?
June 23rd, 2006 at 9:47 am
Oh if only we had had a pleasant reason to find a drugstore. The south rose again in a non-innuendo loaded sorta way…something possibly related to consumption of oversweetened mint tea in filthy reused glasses given to us by a goat butcher lacking the modern convenience of refrigeration and the modern tendency toward sanitary meat handling in 100 degree heat.
July 3rd, 2006 at 4:06 am
hand’s on cooking lesson in fez , if you want to learne how to make tagine passtilla , couscous, harira , cook like a moroccan look at http://www.fescooking.om
July 3rd, 2006 at 4:07 am
http://www.fescooking.com
July 8th, 2006 at 7:47 pm
ha! Moroccan comment spam! That is awesome!
September 8th, 2006 at 11:40 am
Could you please supple contact information for the Marrakech cooking lesson. Everything thing looked delicious. Thanks for sharing your adventure.
May 17th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
You shouldn’t do this.