Showing posts with label Morocco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Morocco. Show all posts

Friday, March 13, 2015

Morocco Intinerary February 14- March 8, 1995

Morocco February 14- March 8, 1995*

*None of these maps or images are JourneyistheDestination's. She's a terrible photographer in addition to being totally unphotogenic.*


Casablanca,  Feb. 14-17 (Abdullah, JS)

Rabat, Feb. 17  Boring bureaucratic town, got a ride from Casa with JS' colleague

Marrakech Feb. 18-22*


Marrakech Feb. 18-22*
 

Marrakech Feb. 18-22 (Malika) Marrakech is Blue for the sky, White for the Mountains, Red for the walls and Green for the trees according to Malika.

Asni, High Atlas*

(Day trip to Asni to Malika's country house) Feb. 19


Tizi-n-Titchka Pass, High Atlas Feb. 22, 1995*

Marrakech/ High Atlas Pass to Ouarzazate (Omar) Feb. 22

Ait Benhaddout  Feb 22, 1995*
(Yeah, before Game of Thrones, Netflix and the Wole Internet Thing)

Ouarzazate/ Ait Benhaddout/ Tiffout Feb. 22-23

Zagora Feb. 24-26 (Joe)

Zagora back to Ouarzazate to Gorge du Dades Feb. 26

Gorge du Dades Feb. 26*

Gorge Du Dades (Psycho Innkeeper) Feb 26-27  Unbelievably beautiful and striking

Boumalne Du Dades Feb. 27*

Boumalne du Dades to Tingehir (Dead Lady) to Er Rachidia Feb 27

En route to Er Rachidia Feb. 27*


Er Rachidia Feb 28*


Er Rachidia/ Middle Atlas Pass to Fes Feb 28



Fes View  March 1, 1995*

Tanneries in Fes, March 2*
( I can still remember the utterly foul smell of this place)



Fes Feb 28-March 2

Meknes March 2

Volubulis March 3, 1995*


Volubulis (Roman Ruins) March 2-3  It's amazing how much ground these guys covered.  I met a group of kids here from the UK who were driving down to South Africa in a Jeep.  When I marveled at this sight, they were like Roman Ruins?  We can see those any old day.

Casablanca March 4-5 (JS)

Essouira March 5-6, 1995*

Essouira March 5-6 (Joe again).  I loved Essouira and would have stayed a month according to my travelogue.
Casablanca...the movie again... March 7, 1995*
Casablanca...the reality March 7-8, 1995*
(Well, Casa+ Blanca, at Least It's White)


Casablanca March 7-8 (JS, Abdullah)  Bought my tickets on Royal Air Maroc to Cairo and got my hands and feet henna tatooed.

Lasting impressions, now 20 years later?  I would love to come back here with a ton of money and stay in an awesome riad like in Hideous Kinky, with a tea boy and everything.

Casablanca to Cairo March 8, 1995

*None of these maps or images are JourneyistheDestination's.  She's a terrible photographer in addition to being totally unphotogenic.*

Sunday, February 22, 2015

Express Stress. High Atlas Pass, February 22, 1995.

Express Stress. High Atlas Pass, February 22, 1995.
On the way to Ouarzazate from Marrakesh. Bus got stuck in the snow for several hours, which for me was a terrifying relief, terrifying because what woman wants to be stuck on an isolated mountain pass with a bus full of super aggressive, hostile men; a relief because of a break from the death defying hairpin turns at breakneck speed on snowy mountain roads. Needless to say, did not offer to help push the bus, but snapped this shot instead.
Note the traditional brown Berber cloak http://www.johntyman.com/sahara/s296.jpg. It was here that I learned where George Lucas must have gotten his inspiration for the Jawas http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100915195128/starwars/images/7/79/Jawa_SWSB.png in Star Wars