Month: September 2020
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Road trip in Morocco #4 – from Ouarzazate to Essaouira
This is the last post of a series that documented our second road trip across Morocco that took us from the desert camp at Merzouga to Essaouira on the Atlantic coast. It was a jaunt of about 1000 km made in 3 days. You can follow our trip to Ouarzazate on this blog here and…
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Atlas Studios, Ouarzazate
Atlas Studios is a film studio located about 5 km (3 miles) west of the city of Ouarzazate, the second town where we spent a night on our Merzouga-to-Essaouira road trip across Morocco. You can follow our trip to Ouarzazate on this blog here and here. According to Wikipedia, measured by acreage, it is the…
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Walking in Gorges du Toudra in the High Atlas mountains
Toudra Gorge is one of the detour from our 3-day road trip from Mezouga to Essaouira. See earlier post here. The Toudra Gorge (or Todgha Gorge, Gorges du Toudra; in Tamazight: ⵜⵉⵣⵉ ⵏ ⵜⵓⴷⵖⴰ; Arabic: مضيق تودغا) are a series of limestone river canyons, in the eastern part of the High Atlas Mountains, near the…
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Morabit Marbre Fossils, Erfoud
Our first detour after we left our Merzouga desert camp on our cross-country drive was a fossil factory or rock shop – Morabit Marbre Fossils, at Erfoud – the fossil capital of Morocco. What kind of music goes with fossils ? Try this : During the Devonian period, the Paleozoic Era, from about 450 million…
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Life, Life – Ryuichi Sakamoto & David Sylvian
Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Sylvian, both my very favorite artists, collaborated again on this video – the music, poem and time-lapse photographed images of New York City. Meditative and beautiful. How did I miss this by almost three years? It was released in 2017 when Sakamoto’s “async” came out. And I just discovered this video.…