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Essaouira | Anthony Sattin | Morocco, Atlantic Coast, Essaouira

A row of palm trees lines the road opposite the gallery, casting elegant shadows against the rust-red walls of the inner town. Old Souiries in jellabas rest in these shadows in the heat of the day. Later, when it is cooler, women covered by their haiks chat beneath the walls while their children play on the short-barrelled cannons, which guard the high key-hole entrance to the old town. This, it is clear, isn't just any old town

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Letter From Essaouira | Jim Keeble | Morocco, Atlantic Coast, Essaouira

Local fisherman Miloud Mouk summed it up best: ‘Essaouira is a hospital for people who need to relax.’ I’d checked into this emergency ward after the haggling, hassling, and harassing of Marrakech

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Notes from Morocco | Lucretia Stewart | Morocco, Atlantic Coast, Essaouira

In the foothills of the western High Atlas Mountains, the great mountain chain that stretches across Morocco to Algeria and the Sahara, there is place called Immouzer des Ida Outanane

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