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
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