Great
South and
Kasbahs
The
Trails of Our
Ancestors
The Southern and Northern lands of
Morocco differ completely
from one another, contrasting both in climate and landscape. The
South seems to embody a step backward in
time, to an era of biblical aura and a surviving Mesopotamia. The
vast Sahara seems surreal, with its
plateaus bordered by mirages, waddies punctuated by sandcastle-like
Kasbahs,
and romantic oases where tall date palms grow surrounded by
silver-green reed,
all found on a horizon of sand dunes constantly reshaped by gentle
winds,
sheltered by azure-blue African skies.
Filmmakers Cecil de Mill and Martin Scorsese were unable to capture on
film the majesty and unsurpassed beauty of Morocco’s Southern lands, a
literal
heaven on earth, which has a depth that can only be truly embraced and
appreciated by the naked eye.
