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Morocco

Morocco. Culture, Geography, and Geology. The walled capital city Rabat. The largest Mosque in Morocco (Rabat). A soccer game outside the walls of Taroudant. One of the main gates through the wall of Taroundant. Arabic architecture – arches are even found in hotels.

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Morocco

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  1. Morocco Culture, Geography, and Geology

  2. The walled capital city Rabat

  3. The largest Mosque in Morocco (Rabat)

  4. A soccer game outside the walls of Taroudant

  5. One of the main gates through the wall of Taroundant

  6. Arabic architecture – arches are even found in hotels

  7. Inside the courtyard of a hotel in Taroudant

  8. Hotel rooms looking into the courtyard

  9. They even keep pet turtles in the hotel

  10. The view from the top of the hotel in Taroudant

  11. The souque in Taroudant – it fills with merchants twice a week

  12. City streets – narrow and dusty

  13. City streets and my car…the little one on the left (Fiat Uno)

  14. The main square in Taroudant – you can even get a horse buggy ride around the city.

  15. My assistant – Abdell

  16. Tanjin lunch at a Kasbah

  17. An old Kasbah above a Wadi (river)

  18. Desert Tortoise

  19. A common site – camel herds

  20. Thumbs up after a good day

  21. Dinner inside Abdella’s home

  22. Near the village of Tazemort – Early Cambrian sediments

  23. The stratigraphy of the early Cambrian

  24. Alternating layers of Limestone and Siltstone

  25. Solo fieldwork

  26. Looking east from Tazemort into an oncoming dust storm

  27. The north end of the Tazemort section

  28. Ripple marks – evidence of shallow water deposition

  29. On the side of the road just before the dust storm

  30. A kasbah high in the hills near Tazemort

  31. Looking north to the High Atlas Mountains

  32. Mohammed lent a helping hand and a ride on his donkey

  33. Mohammed and his friends hauling firewood to their homes

  34. A dust-devil

  35. The road to the High Atlas

  36. Looking down into a village in the high atlas

  37. The pass to Marrakech

  38. Abdell and Hassan

  39. Hassan and me in the High Atlas

  40. A snake charmer in the center of Taroudant

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