Tuesday, 11 March 2014

Saturday, 1 March 2014 – Chefchaouen

Chefchaouen is a small city in northern Morocco on the slopes of the Rif mountains.

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It has one of the prettiest Medinas in Morocco - the narrow cobbled streets were filled with houses and buildings originally painted in various shades of blue by the Jewish refugees who lived there during the 1930s

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The town square

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It rained for most of the time that we were there, but we did manage to walk up the hill behind the village to the whitewashed Spanish Mosque

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From there we had great views of the surrounding cloud capped mountains

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We walked past a small spring coming out of the mountains

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Next to the river were some concrete troughs with corrugated washboards where despite the rain some local women were doing their laundry

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In Morocco, the women (and the donkeys) seem to do a lot of heavy work

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Stopping for a rest on the bridge

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The Kasbah of Chefchaouen

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