fes & azrou
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The gate entering the medina in Fes. We stayed outside the medina and
parked outside it.
It is a crazy place, full of narrow streets lined with all kinds of shops.
We felt overwhelmed
by all the people and this just was not the kind of place to be carrying
children around. After
an hour or two, we took off.
Eden posing inside one of the amazing old doorways in Fes
Scenes heading into the cedar forests between Fes and Azrou. We were not
expecting forests when
we were making our plans to go to Morocco. I admit that I was shocked.
It was amazing.
More scenes from the lush mountains. The one on the left was right near
the campus of
an American university in a town called Ifrane. It looked like alpine
France.
We stayed the night in a town called Azrou. The next day, a newly made
friend, Abdullah,
took us into the mountains where we saw these apes. Really amazing and the
girls just loved it.
This picture is of a new mother and father ape both looking down at the baby.
Eden loved the apes. One of them kept trying to get her to join a game of
tag (the one on right).
He would come up, tap her on the leg, and run off screeching. He
kept hoping she would chase him up the tree.
Mother and baby ape and a happy family on the right. Apparently the baby
is about a month old.
It was hard to hold India off. She kept wanting to go up and touch the
apes. She wouldn't let go of
the cracker and the ape was getting only a little bit at a time. Rachel
finally had to help her let go of it.
Asia loved the apes and had many questions about what they were doing. She
had a lot
of questions about why we would have zoos if apes could live in such a nice
forest.
Our friend Abdullah took us to a mountain lake. It was beautiful and so
full of life.
Barking frogs, beautiful birds, and Berbers with their sheep. There was a
woman at
the lake doing her laundry.
Eden and Asia were determined to pet one of the sheep, so off they went chasing
them.
Abdullah and India made fast friends. He was a very kind and soft-spoken
guy. His father and family before that
lived completely in the mountains and now he lives in a village close to
town, but still spends
much of his time hiking around the mountainside. He gave us this
experience "as a gift".
We bought this small Berber rug and cedar bowl in Azrou.
Morocco Pictures:
Casablanca, Rabat, Volubilis
Fes & Azrou
The Sahara
Ouarzazate, Anamer, Marakech, & Essaouria