Guest Post: Morocco

A bit late, but here are the photos from Morocco. It's a beautiful little country with ancient market towns, lush green rolling plains, rocky mountains, and a long ocean-front. The food is fantastic for meat-lovers (I get the feeling a vegetarian would starve though). Grilled or stewed lamb or beef at every meal, all seasoned with Morocco's cumin-based blend (cinnamon and nutmeg and about 40 others involved I believe). Friday lunch of cous-cous was fantastic as well.

I spent most of my time in the office, but had a couple chances to get out:

Casablanca's mosque, one of the 3 largest in the world I believe:
The beginnings of the Atlas mountains:

Even coming from China, this one was a bit of a shock. Really, just the head? At least they've got handles.

A corner of the labyrinthine markets of Fez (apparently the largest car-free urban area in the world, for those keeping track):

Above Fez, drying the wool on the top of the world. They didn't want us to take pictures until we gave them some help sweeping the wool:

The Roman ruins at Volubilis, in a gorgeous setting:

The ancient town of Moulay Idriss

In the market at Rabat, the capital city in which I was working for 2 weeks. Bought my Moroccan spice mix and some argan oil from this guy:

Roman ruins at the Chellah in Rabat, with the town of Sale across the river valley in the background. Storks have taken over the chellah now:

Rabat's oceanfront kasbah: