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Morocco in pictures
Gazette columnist Carl Strock captured these images on a recent trip to Morocco. "I was wandering the labyrinthine lanes first of Marrakech, then of Fez, and finally of Chefchaouen, getting more entranced all the time," he wrote last week in a column describing the sights. Posted on March 8, 2010.
Customers haggle at a market outside the Medina wall in Fez
A young lady in Marrakech
A woman in the ancient capital of Fez
A worker at a tannery in Fez
Dying leather at the Fez tannery
At the famous plaza of Marrakech, Jemma el Fna, the sun peeks through on a cloudy day
A Philippine tourist, often seen on my travels, examines real estate in a Berber village in the High Atlas Mountains
A Berber housewife in the Ourika Valley of the High Atlas Mountains
A roadside vendor on the way up to the mountains
Berber boys in the mountains, unlike Arabs in the cities, were happy to have their picture taken
French tourists make fools of themselves by wrapping themselves in the blue scarves typical of the Tuareg people, not to be found in this area, and taking their own pictures
A woman in Fez
A street in Fez
A religious school in Fez
Second-hand chalabas for sale in Chefchaouen
Romping in Chefchaouen, the town that is famously painted blue and that usually appears in photos all aglow in the sun. When I was there it was gray and gloomy and after a month of heavy rain was
besmirched with algae, without which these photos would not have been possible.
A gentleman on a stroll
Surveying his kingdom
As I was photographing the fairyland passageway, an early morning walker passed by
The same Philippine tourist, ubiquitous in my travels, explores the town
