Fes

Considered the spiritual center of Morocco. Spirituality doesn't appear on the photos, of course. I spent two hours, without knowing it, at the zawiya of Mulay Idris tomb. I didn't take any pics, I didn't think about it.
What else then? The Karawiyyin, considered the oldest university in the world. Like many things in Morocco, it's a female foundation, created by a heiress of a rich merchant family, Fatima al-Fahri. The mosque, like all the places of worship in Morocco, closed to non-Muslim tourists.

The souk full of curiosities and oddities.

Selling camel meat.

Bottles containing rose water (?).

Pastilla, a kind of dough fried like this.

Wool.

The famous tanneries, looking colorful from upstairs, but exhausting for those who work in them.

Meknes

Volubilis

A Roman town of Volubilis has something deeply Moroccan already: a kind of sensual climate.

Rabat

Somehow I hated this city, maybe unjustly.

Casablanca

The richest of Morocco, but without a soul, just like this newly built, splendid mosque Hassan II, a project of an European architect, Michel Pinseau. Shining with marbles all over, the giant construction is supposed to have room for 25 000 worshipers; I didn't see any, not even one. But still, lazily, some people camp outside.

Remarkable titanium door, maybe - for the material, but not for the form - the only item escaping the strict traditionalism of the whole.

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Al-Jadida

On our way North, another Portuguese place, called Mazagao, now: al-Jadida, famous for the cistern used by Orson Wells in his version of Othello.

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Al-Saouira

A charming place after all, even if the chaotic port smells strongly. An old Portuguese fortress called Mogador.

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Agadir

We landed at the airport Agadir - al-Massira, I think this is the one built by the Saudi prince, I'm not sure. By the way we saw (the wall of) Prince Sultan's ibn Abdulaziz residence. Indeed I wander what can keep any Saudi guy in a place like this. Probably the climate; the weather, even now in August, is misty and cloudy. A persistent fog makes the contours fuzzy till well past midday. The ocean shore is rocky and still wild, even if numerous hotels are just being built.

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