We arrived in Taroudant Thursday & yesterday was a lounge day after our hectic pace. Yesterday we stayed in our luxe riad 6km from the town. We chilled by the pool much of the day.
The vague outline in the back is the High Atlas Mountains & we can see the Anti Atlas clearly to the south.
The owner hired Berber artisans to handcraft all of the woodwork.
Taroudant is an 11th century walled city. The walls were nice but the city is a lot worse than Marrakech - for shopping & cleanliness. We walked into one incense-filled metal goods shop in the Arab souk & I got high for 1/2 hour. I believe the owner was using the incense to mask other smokables that were still in the air. It was not a pleasant surprise.
I certainly have never seen sheep & goats eating garbage in a town before.
The obligatory meat in open window photo.
We are off to the seaside town of Essaouira tomorrow. Famous as a hippe hangout in the 60s/70s.
Ian