Our plane arrived in this, the largest city in Morocco with some four million people.
Our Overseas Adventure Travel tour first made a side trip to northern Morocco: Chefchaouen, Tangier and the Mediterranean coast. Then a clockwise loop through the country: Rabat, Fez, the Sahara, the Atlas Mountains, Marrakesh, Essaouira, Casablanca.
Here is a rug seller's cart on a busy Casablanca street.
Shop on a busy street a couple blocks from our hotel.
A city in the northwest in the Rif Mountains, popular with tourists because of its hundreds of shops in the market area of the medina (traditional old city).
Nancy in the central square, Place Uta el-Hammam, of the medina.
The Fouara stream runs through the center of the city and extensive walkways with pedestrian bridges have been built to explore the stream.
Chickens for sale on a busy street outside the medina..
Labor Day rally poster.
A prosperous city, probably due to the influx of tourists in the summer.
Yet despite prosperity there is a shantytown in an area of new development.
Though the market area (souk) of the medina is seen by the tourists, the medina also consists of a residential area. Here is a square in front of a mosque (not seen in the photo) and a place to wash ones hands before entering the mosque.
This stand-alone little building in the medina sells wedding dresses and you see inside a room for the woman to be measured.
Note the extensive use of blue paint throughout the medina.
Bridge in a gorge.
The northern most point of Morocco at the Strait of Gibraltar where you can almost see Spain.
This is the country's capital city on the Atlantic coast north of Casablanca.
Just a tree outside the old city walls.
Hamsa refers to an open right hand, recognized as a sign of protection and providing defense against the evil eye. But what is the meaning of this figure?
Just an interesting door.
East of Rabat.
You probably recognize many faces here.
Morocco's third largest city, some 70 miles east of Rabat and 100 miles south of Tangier.
The boy looking in at the door is late for school. The children inside are all standing singing, so he is waiting until they finish before entering.
Elaborate decoration on the Royal Palace of Dar el-Makhzen.
Spring.
Dying vats.
Dying vats.
A town in southeastern Morocco near Algeria and our entry to the Sahara desert.
Dromedary licks Nancy's baby goat.
Our dinner.
Todra Gorge in the High Atlas mountains.
Wide street, wide sidewalk, all new, almost no traffic.
Large city in northwest Morocco.
School children going home at noon.
Resort city on the Atlantic south of Casablanca and west of Marrakesh, but it also has a major fishing industry. Over 150 species of fish are caught and it is the world's primary exporter of sardines.
So many bicycles in front of a bank.
The Atlantic.
