Morocco Day 4

The next day we woke up and started to drive down to Chefchaouen in the Atlas mountains. I wanted to take bit more of a rural drive and head through the countryside. It was great to see the rocky terrain and pass through some of the small villages. 

Out in some of the very rural areas it was pretty eye opening. Some of the houses and people were showing the poverty in the country. Some of the very rural areas the people had to fill up blue water barrels to their houses. It really made my mom and I think about how lucky we were to be able to have somethings as simple as running water. 

The landscape was so different than the area near Fes. We also passed kids that were walking to/from school. It seemed like some of them had to walk really long distances to get to the schools. It was sad but at the same time a little inspiring to seem the kids walking so far to get to their classes. 

After about 5 hours of driving and a great little lunch at this tiny cafe, we go to a big blue gate that leads to nothing off on the side of the road, but just around the next bend was Chefchaouen. 

What an amazing city. Walking around it was such a great experience, there were cool little alleyways all painted and some had colors built into them to give it a different vibe.  All the little fountains and roofs all were painted.

We had dinner on this great rooftop restaurant that you had to walk up 3 flights of stairs, but we got to see this incredible sunset over the city. This also looked out over the main square of the city where there were local musicians playing and sitting outside listening to the Moroccan music and having this great dinner, just was a great way to spend the final night to a incredible trip.

The next morning I got up and walked one of the long trails around the city. I was able to get these great shots of the sunrise over the city.  It was a great little walk up on the north side of the city. The trail was paved and it was totally a great a little hike.

After the sun was up, I walked through the other loop around the city and again was able to see all these really cool doorways. I wish I could have stayed another 2 days in Chefchaouen. 

We left Chefchaouen a hour later and drove back to Casablanca for our flight. It was an amazing trip and I will never forget. I can’t wait to go back again and this time go to Marakech. I’m sure there will be amazing things to do an explore there as well.