Morocco

Morocco, an African country, a touristique country, a monarchial country and an unique adventure.

Djemaa el Fna, Marrakesh

Morocco, a beautiful country on the edge of Africa. The trip to Morocco featured some amazing places, like Tétouan, Chefchaouen, Ouezzane, Fès, Tizi n’Tichka (mountain pass), Tizi n’Test (mountain pass), Todgah Gorges (canyon), Zagora, Quarzazatte, Setti Fatma, Tacheddirt, Aït-Ben-Haddou, Toubkal (mountain), Sahara desert and many more. Unfortunately, I will not go into detail with every single place, I visited there. However, personally, it was a phenomanal trip, in which I was enriched by a lot.

Marrakesh

Marrakesh is the capitol of Morocco and one of the five king cities. Thereby, it is a very important and touristique town. It is home to a beautiful Medina and one of the biggest mosques in the world. The 'big Square' is a market called Djemaa el Fna; many tourist shop here and locals brag with athletic skills and diverse other tricks. Some locals do offer to sell, or pet animals, however, the animals seem to get hit, or abused. Apart from that Marrakesh has some intriguing features. There are huge leather markets and the fascinating House of Photography, which is very recommendable for any one who is interested in being culturally enriched or wishes to develope better photopotrait skills. For the botanics there is a quite noteworthy botanic garden called Jardin Majorelle, which was designed by the artist Jacques Majorelle. The garden itself ain't as spectacular as the Andre Heller Garden, which is located a little further out of the capitol.

Djemaa el Fna

Snakes in Djemaa el Fna

Camel ride in the desert

A Moroccan Berber

Sahara desert

Grilled meat sticks in an African Market

Moroccan Berber, a great part of Moroccos population are Berber. Some Berber tribes are nomads. Most nomads live near the desert. Tuareg is the most famous Berber tribe. One may now the Tuareg-band Tinariwen, which gets a lot of popularity in diverse regions of morocco and the world.

An intensely important part of the lives of Berber may be 'being free'. On many Berber doors and buildings is the sign of the 'Free Man' painted. A symbol of ones own free will.

Generally, Berbers can speak several languages, including the Berber language.

Outstandingly, Berbers are generally very friendly.

A traditional ceremony

The rocky part of the Sahara desert

Sahara desert

Chefchaouen

Chefchaouen, the famous blue moroccan city.

Regrettably, we did not stay long in "the Blue City". Nevertheless, the time, we did spend there was very enjoyable. Firstly, Chefchaouen is called "the Blue City", as some of the parts of the city(, especially the Medina) is painted blue. There were several theories about why the city was painted blue; there didn't seem to be a consensus, on which theory, or if any of them would be the right one. That being said, the blue gives the city definetly a surreal look.

Though the blue is not the only beauty that is dwelling around the city; furthermore, some like me would be argueing that there is more beauty in its geographical situation in my own opinion. Mountains surround Chefchaouen and creates reason for the surreal and steep stairways on popular pictures.

Like the majority of moroccan cities, Chefchaouen has a market, which is primarily for tourists. In contrary to most other markets were the inhabitants not quite as intrusive.

Oasis Fint

Fès, picture taken from overwiew of a leather tannery

Leather tannery in Fès

Fès, the oldest King City of Morocco. A must-do in Fès is definetely visiting a leather tannery, unfortunately, they do stink a little. Besides that, there is rarely a chance to visit one somewhere else. It gives one a sense of how hard working for low wages just can be.

Kasbah of Tifoultoute

Clay ruins

Donkey in the high Atlas

Goat in the Toubkal National Park

Hummingbird hawk-moth

Extraordinary are some of the animals that we were able to find in the high Atlas region. The Hummingbird hawk-moths are mysteriously graceful in their flights. It was a phenomena watching them on a flower meadow in the mountains. On hiking tours one is sure to encounter many goats. However, rarely they show their majestic sides in the high mountains. Furthermore, Mouflons live in the high Atlas too; sadly, we did not encounter any. Berber apes are not rarely seen in Morocco, we were able to get close to them several times on our journey. Sadly, Mouflons and Berber apes count to the endangered species.l

Painted lady butterfly

Berber ape

"!Still long journey!", is written on a rock next to the main trail to the Toubkal peak.

I still have a long journey ahead of me, stay tuned!

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