Showing posts with label tomb. Show all posts
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Thursday, May 29, 2008

Moulay Bouzerktoun


One of my absolute favorite places in the world is Moulay Bouzerktoun which we first visited ten years ago. It is a tiny village on the coast some 25km north of Essouira. Now it has a tarmac road leading to it - then there was just a cart track.


It might be nice to live in a miniscule cottage there.



The beach is huge and desolate and we collected sea urchins. A farmer and his sheep and goats walked behind us towards the village. There are perfect sand dunes.



The mosque and the tomb of the saint seem almost to tumble into the Atlantic.
The three fishing boats are the very traditional blue.



The water was good for paddling but it was too cold to swim.



There is a rather lovely cafe high up overlooking the ocean and all the wonderful buildings.
Surfers come here in RV's - but not very many of them.



I wonder what it will be like ten years hence? One hopes it stays the same. This picture is looking south towards Essouira.