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Germany after all was cold and wet and Morocco is so much fun..
Marrakech
Zagora
Ouarzazate
Essaouria
Marrakech
Zagora
Ouarzazate
Essaouria
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Each year I get away from the boredom of life in these United States and go home to Jamaica to spend time with family and friends. This year, I decided Germany.... well.... Germany for some reason did not sounded too exciting. Then I got a call from my favourite Moroccan.......... And from there, we paved a road to Marrakech to end the year 2011.
Djemaa El Fna market square in Marrakech with lively street entertainment.
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Re: end of 2011 traveling and back..
What else yuh got?
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Wicked!
Most more nuh.
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Hi Sandi
Going to follow this report when I get homeComment
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I had a connecting flight out of JFK to Casablanca intl flying Royal Air Maroc. By looking at the passengers I could tell most were Africans bound for other locations within the mighty continent. Flight time was 8 hrs and I spent most of the time fitfully dozing or reading a book on fundamentalism Mormons fanatical religious views. Flight landed on schedule...6:25am Maroc time on Christmas eve morning. Immigration and baggage clearance went fast enough. I exit thru terminal 2... mistake. Scanned around... he's not there. Wait..wait..wait and at 1 hr, I knew something was amiss. It's unlike him to be late. Last we spoke, it was close to my flight boarding and he was to leave Fes around midnight their time. Looking up and down the look stretch of the airport, I walked in the direction of terminal 1. There he was... craning his neck and no doubt wondering "ewa, where is that Jamaican woman?" A quick poke in the side and we were hugging and jumping for joy! "Where were you...? I was worried..." Oh my gosh...you lost weight? Oh my gosh where did all that grey hair come from (both of us)!" We had sooo much to catch up on... family, work, business, life, love and living.
Once out of the airport, suitcase in the trunk, more hugs, we got out the map and forged the road from "getting outta dodge" Casablanca and set sight on Marrakech. The next days after we would find our way travelling through the high Atlas Mountains to Zagora, Ouarzazate, Mergoza, back to Marrakech and then to the atlantic coastal town of Essaouria, popular for its wind surfing, rife with Moroccan rastas, Portuguese and Jamaican influenced with the rhythms of Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Jimmi Hendrix. Before we hit the road, frst things first, I had to call my hubby to let him know, arrived, and all is well and will be in contact over the next days...
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the red city Marrakech...all buildings have a reddish/earthen colour
walking towards the market square
it's common to see women in traditional wear and overly modern wear
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it was Saturday Christmas eve and afternoon...the market square Djemaa El Fna was busy but not quite busy. Once after dark, it was an exciting place to be... Here is a colourful guy who sells water from a animal skin water holder. I took a picture with him..
The medina of Marrakech is a bit different from Fes. It's a bit wider and allow for motor scooters in... It was a clamor of foot traffic, hard carts and motor scooters. This is still outside at the market square...
The entertainment at the square is just wonderful. Dancer, snake charmers, boxing, magic man palm reader, food galore...
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dried fruits and nuts galore... an obliging poser
inside the medina. my friend is a fast walker and had slow his pace considerably so that i can snap pics and catch up...
the medina is a way of life for the average Moroccan and it is the life and breath of the city. just a nice place to stroll and gaze
vendors selling fresh baked bread, herbs, spices, and more
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very nice SandiF
with Morocco so far
keep posting
If you don't fight for what you deserve, you deserve what you get.
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Tagging along for the journey. Enjoying it all so far.
7/5th of all people do not understand fractions.Comment
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Thanks, Kia... there are more a coming...
The endless entertainment in the market square really makes Marrakech a unique city and this is what the city is known for
My friend calls the dancers "san francisco man" and "jalaba lifters"... these are really young guys dressed up in women clothings. think i have couple more videos of these guys dancing...
These are Gnaoua music performers. The music instrument and rhythms is primarily berber and also mixed with Sub-Saharan African and Sufi music.
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Walking towards a mosque...
Traffic in Marrakech is a mixture of motor scooters (gotta watch they don't run over your feet), vehicles, donkey carts, hand carts, trucks, buses
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Outside of the city and into the country side following the road into the High Atlas mountains.. very rugged area and the Sunday afternoon getting into what I think is the Eureka mountains and a long as rough and rugged climb over rocks, bolders to get to a beautiful cascade (waterfall)
This bridge was a challenge for me... it is more than meets the eyes and I thought I was going to fall off it.
open air restaurant! lol!! that's me... you gotta turn your head though
when in rome do as the romans do... hole in the floor toilet. it's common to see restaurants with standard toilet, and "berber toilets", like this one
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rugged landscape like this one, you'll come across small cropping of habitats built out of clay and straw. from my vantage view, i started a long climb to the cascades
rugged country
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