Snaking precariously up the steep sides of the massive Atlas Mountain range as you leave Marrakech and head up towards the Tizi n’Tichka pass in the southerly direction of Ouazazate.
Begging indulgence from the Senior Gumbo Gurus. Following my previous visit to stormy Portland Bill last week, yesterday the sun came out and the wind picked up a notch more, so I just had to make a quick trip back there.
Not much ever gets discarded in Morocco, much less something as sophisticated as a donkey cart. So what terrible fate befell this robust means of transportation to leave it looking so wrecked as it is?
Some 5 miles to the south-west of Weymouth is Portland Bill, a narrow promontory (or ‘bill’) at the southern end of the Isle of Portland, and the southernmost point of Dorset, England.
Originally from the sub-Saharan (“Sahel”) regions of Africa, notably Senegal, the Gwana are ritual musicians who originally came to Morocco as slaves in the 15th and 16th century from the vast Songhai Kingdom.
Today I am delighted to share my meeting with this gentle and friendly Berber nomad from his encampment above the Todra Gorge.
Standing high above the Dorset coast, overlooking the town of Weymouth and the isle of Portland is “Hardy’s Monument” built in 1845 on the highest point of Black Down.
I was fortunate enough to be able to photograph this noble-looking Camel Rider of the great sand dunes at Erg Chebbi in the less explored desert zone around Merzouga, south of the Atlas Mountains in southern Morocco.
An old door knocker, spotted in Marrakech, in the shape of The hand of Fatima. Believed by Muslims and Jews alike to protect its owner and those in the house from the evil eye.
Almost unsure whether this constitutes a Travel Gumbo “travel” post, I press ahead with my submission and await rapped knuckles from the Senior Gurus!
Snaking precariously up the steep sides of the massive Atlas Mountain range as you leave Marrakech and head up towards the Tizi n’Tichka pass in the southerly direction of Ouazazate.
Begging indulgence from the Senior Gumbo Gurus. Following my previous visit to stormy Portland Bill last week, yesterday the sun came out and the wind picked up a notch more, so I just had to make a quick trip back there.
Not much ever gets discarded in Morocco, much less something as sophisticated as a donkey cart. So what terrible fate befell this robust means of transportation to leave it looking so wrecked as it is?
Some 5 miles to the south-west of Weymouth is Portland Bill, a narrow promontory (or ‘bill’) at the southern end of the Isle of Portland, and the southernmost point of Dorset, England.
Originally from the sub-Saharan (“Sahel”) regions of Africa, notably Senegal, the Gwana are ritual musicians who originally came to Morocco as slaves in the 15th and 16th century from the vast Songhai Kingdom.
Today I am delighted to share my meeting with this gentle and friendly Berber nomad from his encampment above the Todra Gorge.
Standing high above the Dorset coast, overlooking the town of Weymouth and the isle of Portland is “Hardy’s Monument” built in 1845 on the highest point of Black Down.
I was fortunate enough to be able to photograph this noble-looking Camel Rider of the great sand dunes at Erg Chebbi in the less explored desert zone around Merzouga, south of the Atlas Mountains in southern Morocco.
An old door knocker, spotted in Marrakech, in the shape of The hand of Fatima. Believed by Muslims and Jews alike to protect its owner and those in the house from the evil eye.
Almost unsure whether this constitutes a Travel Gumbo “travel” post, I press ahead with my submission and await rapped knuckles from the Senior Gurus!
