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A Hidden Valley in Morocco |
| Section: LIFE / ADVENTURE |
| Author: Patricia Perkins |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 5/1/1995 |
| Size: 2,884 Words, 17,476 Characters |
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Hammou El Tahriri bent over a cone-shaped pottery dish covered with a pyramid of bread. Carefully, he counted out the portions. Then he lifted the lid on the fragrant tajine, the specialty dish of Morocco, simmered all afternoon especially for us. The savory rabbit stew with chickpeas, potatoes, carrots, and onions had been slow-cooked over a wood fire. My husband, Jean-Francois, and I sat cross-legged on the woolen blanket in the austere three-story mud house, our mouths watering.
We were the only foreigners in a tiny village in a hidden valley in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco. The valley, Ait Bouguemmez, unrecorded in maps or guidebooks, was green, calm, and cool--considerably cooler than the sweaty-night heat of the coastal plains. Gone were the steely-eyed fundamentalist Musli...
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At either end of the lush little valley, just visible in the dawn mist, two stair-stepped pyramids stood guard. Hammou had said that the pillboxes on top were used to store grain, but he couldn't tell us who had built the pyramids or why. That's part of the beauty of slipping back in time. The villagers just live with these pyramids--they don't make them into museums and charge admittance.
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