Chafchaouen - Chaouen, Morocco
Chafcaouen or Chaouen is probably on my list of top 5 places I have ever visited. With the color of blue blanketing this city, you get this feeling you are in a different world all together. Situated about 2 hours inland from Tangier (the northern coast of Morocco), Chaouen is a place of tranquility and peace. Most of the people I saw reminded me of Ferdinand The Bull (1938 Disney film and story book). Along the two hour drive to Chaouen, I saw a handful of people just sitting by a tree, or a bush, in the middle of no where, enjoying their scenery and "smelling the flowers", just like Ferdinand. Men wore dishdashas or hooded thobes , while the woman wore Al karam robes and scarfs. There were a few men and woman dressed in western style clothes, especially the younger generation, showing off their high end jeans and Gucci sunglasses. Local men enjoying their Saturday reading the paper, and talking. The minute we arrived at our hotel,...