Month: September 2020
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 Westbound trip to Ouarzazate on this blog here…
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…
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…
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…
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.…