Marrakech & Essaouira
 
Marrakech
 
In the streets of the Medina
 
 
Patisserie Marocaine
 
The Coppersmith Souk (souk=market)
 
Place Jemaa El-Fna fills up with food stalls at night
 
Delicious freshly squeezed oranges and grapefruits...
 
... hardboiled eggs...
 
...snails...
 
... and extra-sweet mint-tea!
 
Jema El-Fna and the Minaret of the Kotoubia at sunset
 
Signs of the last electoral campaign
 
   
Old men at the entrance of a mosque
 
 
   
The Medersa and Palace Dar Mnebbi
 
Spices and curries
 
 
 
One of the rooms of our hostel in Marrakech, in beautiful Riad Amazigh
 
Cats are everywhere in Marrakech
 
 
Girls on their way home from school
 
   
Streets of Marrakech
 
Dyers Souk
 
The Tanneries
 
The Almoravid Koubba
 
Aid El-Kébir was only a couple of days ago: the skins of sacrificed sheeps are to be seen everywhere on the roofs and on the streets
 
Marrakech after the rain from the roof of El Badi Palace
 
Storks nest atop the ramparts of El Badi
 
 
 
 
Essaouira
 
Essaouira at sunset
 
Streetlife in Essaouira’s Medina
 
   
 
 
Selecting fresh mint for the tea
 
 
The blue fishermen’s boats have become a symbol for Essaouira
 
   
It is the week of Aid El Kébir, and most fishermen have returned to their villages for the holidays
 
Xmas in Essaouira
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
           
 
 
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