The end of the Moroccan winter…
…insha’allah.
It’s been warmer and sunnier the past few days now that we’re gone further south, and the cold of Meknes and the snow (!) of Fes seem in the distant past (I forgot to mention that it snowed one morning in Fes … unbelievable!).
We’ve just spent three nights in the Todra Gorge, an incredibly beautiful place. It was the most impressive gorge I’ve ever seen and the most scenic place we’ve been to on this trip. The guesthouse we stayed in is right at the bottom of the narrow gorge itself – a sheer, 300m cliff rises up on one side and it’s almost as high on the other side. We did a 3+ hour walk around the gorge one day with a cool Canadian guy we met, and walked to a few mud-brick kasbahs on the other day. The gorge is also a great place to get away from the clamour of Morocco, though an unusually large number of kids pestered us to give them Moroccan dirhams in exchange for the euro coins that tourists inexplicably give them.
In the last two days, as we’ve journeyed by bus in two stages from the gorge to Marrakesh, we’ve seen some tantilising glimpses of the snow-capped Atlas mountains out the window. They’ll have to wait for another couple of days, though, as we’ve just arrived in this most famous Moroccan city and have some exploring to do…
Meanwhile, since adding photos to the blog is a more difficult procedure than just giving links, here are some shots of the gorge and its people: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jungle_boy
Tags: Africa, Marrakesh, Morocco, North Africa, Travel
Nick