a breath of fresh air

By AUTUMN on March 11, 2008 7:47 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Essaouira is a small port city on the Atlantic coast of Morocco with a very Rasta feel. While Marrakech chews you up, Essaouira breathes you in so that you could easily spend a day sitting on the ramparts watching the waves crash up on the rocks, or strolling through the wide streets. The medina, also a World Heritage site, is littered with shops selling shoes, scarves, wood boxes, and other trinkets along whitewashed walls of tall buildings. The weather here is much kinder than that of Marrakech in the summer months, and even cold early in the year, which I am finding out the hard way.

In a place like this it is easy to let your cares go with the breeze that winds through the medina. But we are here to work! Tomorrow, insha' Allah, we look forward to a great opportunity to see how it's really been done for hundreds of years at the weekly bazaar. More on that later.