High Atlas (Morocco) - Trekking around Mt. M'Goun

Our guide with a Berber family.
-> Look here for the guide Aziz <-
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Tea is served.

Window (from inside).
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High Atlas (Morocco) - Trekking around Mt. M'Goun

Group of hikers with guide, mules bearing the baggage.
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M'Goun Valley

Remnants of old casbah.

M'Goun Valley - Berber village.

The gorge!



Gorgeous green near the water.
-> Look here for the guide Aziz <-

High Atlas (Morocco) - Trekking around Mt. M'Goun

Trekking toward Mt. M'Goun. Here you see Agouti (below: the remnants of the old casbah). Here ended the road - we had to proceed with our own forces and with the help of mules.
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Here goes our way upward.

Mules bearing our baggage.

Hiker at rest.

Plain with pastures at nearly 3000 m asl.

Here finally we see Mt. M'Goun (4071 m)

San Vito Lo Capo

Boats in the early morning sun.
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San Vito Lo Capo: cemetery

Dwellings at the cemetery of San Vito Lo Capo
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San Vito Lo Capo - caves

Near San Vito are some remarkable caves with remnants from older times (from paleolithic through neolithic ages). Go here for more information.

This is the Grotta di Cala Mancina.
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San Vito Lo Capo (Sicily)

Sunny days in San Vito Lo Capo
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The "Santuario" of San Vito. Saint Vitus was a Christian saint from Sicily (see more in Wikipedia)