pictures from a moving vehicle • 5 comments • The sights and scenes on the way back to Casablanca were so interesting. A man selling chickens on the side of the road, sheep herders, kids hitchhiking home from school - it's neat to see how people spend their days... so completely different from our lives in Canada.
back to marrakesh • 12 comments • We stopped often on our way back to the city: to admire the landscape, to eat lunch, to explore a kasbah, etc... - notably, Telouet which is crumbling and has a rich history. The detail in every inch of the rooms is astonishing. At some point, we saw a goat-herder on the side of the road. There were about 5 or 6 goats peering over a rock and then suddenly we were surrounded by what seemed like hundreds of them. These photos and video seem underwhelming compared to the actual experience. But, it's not every day that you see a massive herd of goats scale the side of a mountain... We ended our last evening in Marrakesh with dinner at Al Fassia which happens to be owned and operated by women only. I'm going to miss the rose water they put on your hands at the nice restaurants in Morocco - such a lovely way to start a meal. We shared the pigeon pastilla as an appetizer. I know we said that we weren't in a rush to try pigeon again but Amine (our driver/friend) said we had to have one before we left. It was pretty good!
fertal lahcen • 4 comments • While in Aït Benhaddou, we met the artist Fertal Lahcen. Despite the fact that he explained it to us, we still don't entirely understand how his process works, but the paintings are lovely and there's one hanging on our wall now to remind us of our time in Morocco.
aït benhaddou • 5 comments • On our way back to Marrakesh, we visited Aït Benhaddou, a 'fortified city' that has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site for 25 years. Apparently the kasbahs get damaged each time it rains. Most of the people in the town live in a more modern village at the other side of the nearby river but a few families still live within the ksar. We walked around and met some of the shopkeepers and artists.
musée du cinema • 5 comments • While in Ouarzazate, we stopped at the Musée du Cinema where there were props from movies like Lawrence of Arabia, The Mummy, and Gladiator (I just realized that I actually haven't seen any of those movies). There was absolutely no one else there and it was kind of creepy but we took the opportunity to behave like dorks. - Mina
