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Dare I do it? With my leg problems I wasn't sure if I could manage a trip so far and so complicated. But I decided to try with two canes to help me. Cecily also had a problem with her leg though of a different nature, so it ended up that both of us were dealing with walking problems. 
Santa Semana, Holy week in Malaga. A float in Malaga 
Another float 
The parade goes past in front of our hotel window 
The float goes past our hotel window. 
The float with Jesus 
float 
Poseidon. 
Exit from ship. 
another statue. soldiers marching (running) TV Soldiers holding Jesus to bring to a grave (TV) 
Soldiers holding Jesus on cross. 
a float 
from boat to shore and the band 
from hotel window, mostly men holding the float 
the float 
people in costumes. These costumes resemble Ku Klux Klan which are all white, however the costume designs are at least 500 years old. The KKK copied them. from our hotel, a float 
a float 
a float (TV) There was a huge TV in our hotel and sometimes we thought it would be easier to see it on TV. 
Cecily with cannon in fortress on hill over Malaga 
Castle and fortress from the top 
port hole to shoot arrows 
soldier in castle 
soldier in castle 
trip around world 
writing 
what one soldier wrote in spanish 
Next stop was Casa Blanca which we reached by plane. Sqala Restaurant. Cecily ordered a meal there while still in the USA. 
preparing food 
waiting to eat 
Band with music and singing in restaurant 
Sqala Restaurant information 
Sqala Restaurant in an old fortress 
fortress Sqala Restaurant 
fortress Sqala Restaurant 
Ricks Cafe, very expensive, this is where the movie Casablanca was made. 
many small shops 
spice shop 
waiting to get into new mosque in Casablanca 
New mosque in Casablanca, finished 1996 
New mosque in Casablanca 
New mosque in Casablanca 
New mosque in Casablanca 
tour guide goes to pray alone. She wears no scarf. 
New mosque in Casablanca 
New mosque in Casablanca - this fountain had no water - there were several of them some with water. 
to wash feet 
view from new mosque to lighthouse in Casablanca 
New mosque in Casablanca 
New mosque in Casablanca with Cecily 
New mosque in Casablanca 
guide for Marrakesh, Salem, und driver, Ayoub. Salem told us that Muslims were divided betwee plastic muslims and muslims. Plastic muslims are muslims in name only. Ces and I said there are also plastic Jews, Ces and plastic Christians me. 
Mosque and palace ruin 
Jewish shop keeper 
king in Nazi period 
Berber language 
information about palace 
courtyard in palace 
palace 
palace 
Cecily's trousers and the floorr 
ceiling 
sauna for women. This hammam had no water only steam 
palace 
ceiling in palace 
wall design 
wall design girl 
medina, a shop with music instruments 
In the evening the large plaza is filled with people and all sorts of people trying to earn money. monkey and boy 
snake charmer 
musicians musicians making traditional music 
We drove to the Atlas mountains. There are three ranges. This was the southern one. I think Ayoug said that was an almond tree. Lots of almonds grow there but are none the less expensive. 
mountain stream 
green valley with village 
sitting on mountain side next to a man 
large kasbah on mountain-a kasaba village has a wall with towers on corners 
restaurant with kasbah in backgroud 
rocks for sale - very windy spot 
roads in mountains 
rose town the surrounding area is filled with rose bush farms 
roses 
pink taxis in rose town - a taxi in the street was blocked by an accident, so we had to photograph one in the air 
Rug sales, a co-op to sell rugs made by nomad women. Ces bought one. 
rug factory town, I think it's Itlouane 
town in Dades Valley 
Women making argon oil, a special Moroccan oil 
carving wood 
our hotel up on the hill in Dades Valley 
our hotel 
view over the valley - the valleys with a river were cultivated, the houses were built on the rocky bare hills. 
man selling scarves which we didn't buy 
Berber wedding dress. Ayoub said the majority of people in Morocco are Berber. 
me in the gorge which had a river through it 
Ces and Ayoub 
Many climbers in the gorge 
Near the origin of the river which came out of the earth. The gorge was full of cars and busses to view it and no path, just dodging cars and busses. 
On the road, a scary truck 
Old method of irrigation. Ayoub makes it work sort of 
information about irrigation 
looking into the hole which goes down to the water 
man with camel. It can't escape because it's legs are tied. 
camel chewing - seemed permanent 
camels walking through sand hills 
inside our tent, it had a hot shower and heating. Many tent groups through the hills. Must be a good source of income. Morocco's largest source of income is tourism. Also the black large-sized cars with 8 seats are very common for tourists. 
At night music and dancing to Moroccan music in the center of the tents 
We watched the sun rising near the camp 
view of camp in Merzouga 
food growing near camp, upper right in the photo is the typical modern irrigation source with solar panal. There were many of them in the desert. 
me petting camel 
rose bush. In the rose town the roses weren't yet blooming, here it was. 
This plant very common in the desert. No one knew what it was until I asked our desert guide whose background was nomad. He knew it and said the berries are poisonous. 
camels and desert view 
sand hills 
man herding goats? or was it sheep? 
there were many fossil places, we went to one of them 
info 
info 
info 
in the fossil store where I bought a trilobite. The reason I had the scarf on my head was because it was always very windy in the desert, so I did it to keep my hair out of my face. 
turtle shell 
crinoid 
fossils 
fossil guide in museum, excellent English me trying to find fossils 
dinosaur eggs 
many trilobites 
small whirl wind 
olives in medina 
gate to Rissani I think 
outdoor restaurant with no heat, very cold 
from window of our hotel in Merzouga. 
lake where supposedly white band are flamingos, but guide would not go there. I think the routes guides take are predetermined and cannot be mixed, f.ex. drivers cannot be city guides and they must follow a certain predetermined route. 
gnawa guitar gnawa making gnawa music 
house of mud and straw, good in summer heat 
info 
gnawa village, light patches on sand are from rain 
gnawa village 
This fruit grows in the desert, good for rheuma 
the fruit growing 
Ces and me with purple flowers growing in desert 
yellow flowers 
desert view 
mine with house in front 
the black rocks produce mascara 
quartz from mine 
houses for French who once controlled the mine - that at least, is what the guide said. 
Our guide for the normads. He was himself brought up as a nomad and did not go to school. But he knew the name of the poisonous plant and that it was poisonous which no one else did. 
kitchen for the normads 
In this shelter we got bread with honey and another sauce to put on the bread which was very good. 
Nomad houses. This dorf which moves so often had about 30 houses 
This shelter is used to sleep when it's very hot. 
Nomad tent and Berber flag, the design means freedom. Our guide told us this several times, so I think it was important for him, as a Berber, to know that the Berbers want freedom. 
Nomad goats 
nomad chickens 
view in dunes. Our guide, the nomad, took us for a ride in the dunes. This was scary. He went up and down, sometime almost straight down. We thought we'd be smashed. He said don't worry, I'm a good driver. 
same hotel as yesterday, at night. One of the hotel people took us out in the desert to see if we could see the Milky Way, but there was too much light since we were near a town. 
River in mountains 
village in Sahara 
snow in the mountains 
Woman on donkey shook her stick at Cecily photographing her. She didn't see me because my window was closed. 
very cold open restaurant where we ate 
here it snowed 
monkeys live here, also very cold 
apple trees not yet blooming - the area was in a range of mountains and it was cold. The apple trees do not seem to be even as far along as in Germany |
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