The Atlas mountains is divided in to several areas. We saw mostly the High Atlas and the Middle Atlas They are a young mountain range, tall and rugged. This cloud is a lenticular cloud. Not often seen. This day was mostly in the van. As I recall this part of the trip, I have to remind myself that this was all done in one day. This post is mostly about the photos. Click on any of them to get the slide show. And please enlarge the photos. My biggest lesson of this part of the trip is that no matter how much you put a GPS tag on your photos, it is more like a guess than an actual record. So Merzogua may or may not be the name of the place where we stayed in the most amazing caravansarai. And the notes provided by the tour agency are more like suggestions. Lesson learned keep your own notes. Keep photo record of room tags and door signs. This part of the trip was one long day of driving. Most of my photos were taken fro...
Vegetable silk Natural and synthetic dyed More on this below Fes (aka Fez in some languages) is city at the crossroads. Not just the crossroads of place, being at the connecting point of Spain, Arab North Africa, and the trade routes south thru the Sahara. But also the crossroads of ideas, science, religion, and art. And with the meet up of all of this stuff, cultures that struggle to keep their unique identities in this great, boiling caldron of cultures. Note: The photos are all my own. No one to blame but me. And as I am working on this Blogger is doing its best to be as squirrelly as possible. So you are getting the worst of my ability to format with the best of the internet's ability to screw things up. Our guides, Rachid our overall shepherd, and our local guide, who's name is lost to me so I will refer to him as M, were so well versed in their history. But sometimes it felt a bit like Hamlet's observation: "The lady doth protest too much...