Saturday, June 27, 2009




Built like many other Berber cities is the city outside of Volubilis built against a mountainside in the traditional manner to allow for protection from other invading tribes and a lookout to oversee the sprawling farmlands and grazing pastures.  We arrived in the city on a Saturday, the day after the obligatory Islamic Friday prayer day.  It is a huge market day, and the beginning of the wedding season, so men and women from all the surrounding villages had come to do their shopping that day.  It was very cool to walk around that day and watch people going about their business.  Here are some photos taken from the bus....







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