Day 14 – Tuesday 7th June – Hide and Souk
After leaving the Macaques in the “Texas” area of their habitat the previous day they should have been fairly easy to find. Usually they don’t travel too far after we leave them in the evening, but they were non-existent! We searched everywhere. Up and down all the valleys (with the heavy tripod). Eventually after almost 3 hours of searching Sandra radioed decided to call it quits. The others went to the tourist group, but she dropped me off back at the apartment. I already had close-ups from the tourist group, so I thought it would be better to get on with more LnT.
Bedragged after searching for 3 hours
Tuesday is also the day of the souk in Azrou. It happens just outside of the town in a large walled square where a temporary town is assembled each week. It’s huge, and you can buy almost anything you can think of. From fruit and veg, to kitchenware and underwear. I headed up after lunch and spent a few hours just wandering around in awe at the size and variety there. I bought quite a lot of fruit: 1kg apricots, ½ kg plums, ½ kg dates, ½ kg figs, some mint tea, popcorn, a cucumber and a big beetroot all for under £3! Amazing. If I’d been feeling strong I would also have bought a huge watermelon too, but I think I would have struggled on the half mile back to the apartment.
Mint Tea while sheltering from the rain at the souk.
For the rest of the day I ate lots of fruit, and tried to catch up (unsuccessfully) on the LnT – there’s so much stuff on the internet that it’s not hard to find anything that’s more interesting than reviewing clips, even talking on Skype to my wife!!!
