vacation pics - morocco

djemaa el fna (the main square in marrakesh). a chaotic mix of food stalls, peddlers, snake charmers, story-tellers...





...and ingenious games like coke-fishing. the square was a fitting intro to africa and definitely one of my favorite parts of the trip.


ben youssef medrassa, marrakesh


marrakesh museum


koutoubia mosque at sunrise, marrakesh


driving through the atlas mountains on the way to the sahara




on the way we drove through the "valley of a thousand kasbahs" with literally hundreds of small towns scattered across the mountain-sides. this one was in lawrence of arabia and the gladiator


this sign says "52 days to Timbuktu". pretty crazy.


we spent a couple nights in the sahara around some huge sand dunes


try to spot the person on top of the dune. that's right...it's that tall.


grace and i sporting our berber desert headgear


our rides


trekking through the sahara


our "tent"


sahara at sunrise


detail of sand


my favorite pic of the trip