Morocco 2023-2024 Day 4 (12/22/2023) Safi & Essaouira

After leaving Casablanca, we headed along the coast to the west to the City of Safi.  This is the city where Zak's Mother is from. As well as being the former Sardine Capital, it is famousfor their ceramics and pottery. Zak took us to the part of the city where they create the pottery.

Pottery statue at the entrance to Safi

18th Century Portugese fort

Green (unfired) plates drying in the sun.

Potter shaping clay on his pottery wheel

He demonstrated how he makes 5 different types of items in under 10 minutes.

Kiln after first firing open for cooling

Video Link to artist hand painting Pottery - Safi Artist

Waiting to be decorated or painted before glazing and a second firing

Various finished products

Potters section of town

The next several pictures are of the various shops that sell the ceramics

A walk through Safi's Medina for a little "window" shopping

Girls just Wanna Have Fun

I love the arcitecture of the old cities

We drove th the point above the city to get a view of the coastline

The road down to the beach is caled the Head of the Snake

Beautiful Beaches

All the small fishing skiffs going out for the evening's catch

This was Zak's Grandfather's home

Drining on to Essaouira, we went through a small village that was having their weekly market

lots of donkey carts, bicycles and motorcycles and scooters

Got behind a load of hay and they drive down the middle of the road to avoid the trees on either side.

Arrived at our hotel in Essaouira "Nice"

Something I never thought we would do in Morocco, in the old city, there was a Sushi restuarant so we had Sushi in Morocco.

View from our hotel room at night

Morocco Trip Day 5