Dave & Nezhas Pictures: August 2005

Essouarra jewel of Morocco

Old slave quarters turned into

woodcarvers shops

Dave~Nezha

This series of pictures were shot from the terrice of our hotel.
The Hotel Tofout.( Beiber for "The Sun")
over about a 30 minuet period on Christmas day 2003.
The sun is setting over the fabled "Purple Isles". Where from ancent times, about 380 BC ( discovered by the Phoenicians) to the end of the Roman era this was the only place in the known world to get the purple dye used in ancent times on the emperors robes.

On the island you can see the remains of an ancent Mosque and a old prison.
Now the island is a preserve for falcons and you can only visit it during the non nesting parts of the year.

Lunch at the harbor

Lunch choices

Nezha and Hasna enjoying lunch

The souk

A pottery shop in the souk

Birber musicians playing on the street

Our Desert trip

Morning in the Sahara

In 2003 Nezha her brother Racheed and myself traveled by Landrover from Marrakech, over the High Atlas Mountains to Zagoura on the edge of the Great Sahara Desert. We were met there by Bedouins, put on their camels and taken on a nite caravan 20 miles into the desert to their camp to spend the nite and the next day.

Breakfast at camp