1 September, 2014
The day wasn’t over with
our visit up the Ourika river valley.
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| Oued Ourika: Oued = River - pronounced “wed”, as far as I could make out |
Off to the market we went.
And there was no mistaking when it was market day. All through
Morocco, what was a small village in terms of number of houses,
mosques and a handful of other buildings would become a heaving mass
of people.
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| Ourika market crowds in the street |
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| And crowds in the 'pop-up' market square |
Not to mention animals, and
vehicles of all sorts, including the four-legged, and two-, three-
and four-wheeled varieties.
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| Hay on top - what you can't see in the photo are animals and people below |
On offer, as well as the
expected fruit and veg, there was clothing, footwear, hardware, you
name it ….
I can't
emphasise enough how great the local produce was. And a glass of
orange juice? "Always" fresh-squeezed. None of this stuff
reconstituted from local and imported concentrate!
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| Fruit and veg |
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| Spices galore |
At the end of a busy day, a
dip in the pool cooled me off rather rapidly (the water was just a
bit chilly!)
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| The pool |
…. before a walk in the
garden, followed by dinner in the “indoor-outdoor” dining space ….
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| Part of the garden |
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| Indoor - outdoor living/dining space at Riad Ourika Gardens |
and then …… to bed 🙂
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| Sweet dreams ..... |
