https://plus.google.com/photos/101537118314665651162/albums/5697606329726638545
There's the photo album. Should be visible to everyone, tell me if it's not.
Left at about 10:45. We wanted to take a taxi to the base, but it wouldn't go that far (I think there are rules against certain taxis leaving the city) so it dropped us off... Very far from the base. As soon as we realized we would have to walk all that way we figured we had 0 chance of making it to the top. But we made surprising progress and then realized that we should be able to make it, and eventually we did! Hooray.
Mostly the pictures are just of really beautiful scenery. What amazed me the most is how many different views you get. On the one side is this lush greenery, agriculture, etc. Then it smoothly transitions into these cool sand hills. Crazy.
It was very sunny so a lot of the pictures are kind of bad quality (very light). I don't really know how to deal with that.. Tell me if you do, for future reference.
There was a road most of the way but at one point we were doing some climbing up on all fours action. That was fun. What was less fun was doing the same thing on the way down.
There's the photo album. Should be visible to everyone, tell me if it's not.
Left at about 10:45. We wanted to take a taxi to the base, but it wouldn't go that far (I think there are rules against certain taxis leaving the city) so it dropped us off... Very far from the base. As soon as we realized we would have to walk all that way we figured we had 0 chance of making it to the top. But we made surprising progress and then realized that we should be able to make it, and eventually we did! Hooray.
Mostly the pictures are just of really beautiful scenery. What amazed me the most is how many different views you get. On the one side is this lush greenery, agriculture, etc. Then it smoothly transitions into these cool sand hills. Crazy.
It was very sunny so a lot of the pictures are kind of bad quality (very light). I don't really know how to deal with that.. Tell me if you do, for future reference.
There was a road most of the way but at one point we were doing some climbing up on all fours action. That was fun. What was less fun was doing the same thing on the way down.
(Pictured above is what we went down -- it took us about an hour!)
Another picture I want to highlight is the cutest girl of all time -- she must have been like 5 years old, but she was doing some serious shepherding. They were doing what she wanted them to, it was awesome.
Missing from the album is a picture of the mountain itself -- hah. Next chance I get, I'll take one and post it up here.
Some events of the trip:
1) Constantly being worried that we were encroaching on people's property. This was especially the case when we went to ask random strangers for directions. But then you say salaam, labas (hi, how are you?) and they just say labas back (good -- this exchange is the Moroccan equivalent to "ca va?" "ca va bien") and you know you're fine.
2) When we had to go down that steep cliff, there was a dog barking at us literally the entire time. Just a constant yap-yap-yap-yap for one hour straight. It was terrible.
3) Right after we descended, there was a donkey tied to a tree by one leg. It was constantly trying to get free! Every 2 seconds or so, it would try and move forward, realize it was stuck, get back into position, and then try again. It was very sad.
4) At the top, we met some people guarding the telecommunications towers. They were both in uniform and one spoke good French so we could communicate with them effectively. They were really cool and clearly had the greatest job of all time (sitting around in the mountains all day). Very friendly people.
That's about all I can think of for now.
Today (Sunday) we went on a trip to see some Roman ruins and a cool village. I'll tell you about that sometime later though.
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