Adventures in Morocco

 

In December 2008-January 2009 we visited Morocco, with stops in Casablanca, Rabat and Fez. In Fes, we picked up a rental car and over the next ten days, drove through the High Atlas Mountains, visiting Ifrane, Azrou, Zaida, Midelt, Er Rachidia, Tinerhir, Boumaine-du-Dades, Ourazate, Ait Bendahou, Agdz, Nekob, Taliouine, Ouled Berhil, Taroudant, Imouzzer, Essaouira and Marrakesh.

 

The King's Palace in Fes

 

 

 

The casbah in Rabat

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The home where Rabbi Moses Maimonides lived in Fes 1166-1168 CE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A home in the High Atlas Mountains

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A camel next to the road near Er Rachidia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A caravansari in Fes, where traders would stop for the night

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At the seaside in Rabat

 

 

 

 

 

 

Barbary apes playing in the snow near Azrou

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A view of Fes from the heights above the city

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rachmad offering us freshly baked bread in Nekob

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ait Bendahou

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A storch's nest on a minaret in the Dadas Gorge

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scenery near Er Rachidia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A casbah in the Dadas Gorge

 

 

 

 

 

A merchant in a roadside market

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The seawall in Essaouira

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The merchants in the Place Jemaa el-Fna in Marrakesh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Riding cames on the beach at Essaouira

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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