I enjoyed very much this journey in the south of Morocco: beautiful landscapes, interesting activities and and nice encounters.
Early in the morning the people of Agadir go to the beaches (low tide moment) to play soccetr on the wet sand.
In the day the visitors can rent deck chairs and beach umbrella and drink quietly a mint tea.
René Ollo is a French retiree who lives 8 months a year in a bungalow near the seaside: other retirees live in their campers in camping places.
Atlantic Ocean means also surfing: when Mohamed Elghzal was child he saw the European tourists surfing and later he decided to surf also and works now as surfing coach.
We visit the pleasant town of Taroudant with its ballet of bicycles: Salah Aharrar uses the bicycle because it's more practical for crossing the town (narrow streets) and it's also good for the health.: when he has a mechanical problem he looks for Ogadire Lahcen, the bicycle repairman who tells that now more people are using bicycle in Taroudant (children and women).
The young people of Taroudant are riding mountain bikes under the supervision of Boujemaa Smouine (the manager of the AACTM team): they participate in local and national races.
There is also the cycle -touring in MOrocco: 25 FRench cyclist make a tour of about 1.000 kilometers within 10 days: Christian Marcoux organize one of this tours and says that this way the people can discover little by little the nice landscapes of Morocco.
Themost important souvenir bought by the tourists are the Moroccan slippers: we see and te tanners and dyers are preparing the leather for these slipper: goat skins (chalk bath, then treatment with pigeon dung and later the dyeing with natural products). Then we travel to Tafraoute, the capital of the Moroccan slippers: Omar Kourai is a photographer who takes pictures of the slippers and pays often a visit to Boujemaa Salim, the slippers maker: traditional models ,but alo Boujemaa has a great creativity and prepares new collections of slippers for women: all the people in this town wear traditional slippers instead of shoes.
Then I enjoyed the zoom about the village of Inzerki: the ancient apiary built in 1520 has been abandond for 40 years, but Brahim Chetoui has decided to use it again with Saharian honeybees: he has formed an association of beekeepers and now 7 families are using the apiary: he explains that the honey is a good food and also a good medicine. To help the bees Brahim and others beekeepers are growing aromatic herbs (thyme,mint).
Morocco is also known for the saffron production: Zaynia Motia and other women of her village have formed a cooperative (they have built a water well for irrigation) : they have parcels of saffron and get more incomes (women emancipation).
Then we travel to the arid mountains of Morocco: Houcine, the goats shepherd lives in a vilage with water supply, but the goats herd must walk some kilometers to find a little water in a river.
Abdella, another shepherd has his own water-well and has to carry this water to his fields.
In the oasis Aguinan Ahmed is in charge of the organization of the irrigation: the little farmers produce potatoe, carrots and turnips in their parcels.
I enjoyed thye encounters of Tiga with Khalid Tissali in Agadir (padfdle board, the baghrir crepes).with Marc Belli in Taroudant (the the bike tour, and the pottery), with Omar the potter, with Said Nait Sibahman and his wife Djamila in the Bivouac Igueldan in the Palm Grove of Tioute (the couscous and the musicians), with Lahcen Elouafy (the casbah of TRaourirt, the henna tattoo and the d¡iscovery of the Sahara desert,with Rachida the henna painter, with Adir the guide and Moubarak the nomad in charge of the bivouac, very nice encounters with very king Moroccan men and women.