Part III of our Morocco visit : for all the photo’s visit the blog www.pilgrimagehome.com/2018/05/06/oualidia-and-safi
Oualidia is called the St-Tropez for Moroccans, who flee in summer the heat of the inland cities. Now it is a calm fishermen village, populated with oyster farms.
… it was me …
Stormy feelings
Local fisherman and gifted self declared masseur, helped me with an Ischias problem.
We passed by Safi, mainly to visit it’s ceramic activities. In most cases the expected artisanal process was in reality mass production, but with cheap manual work.
almost no tourists
A huge industrial complex to make phosphates for the agricultural industry.
We have no idea of the luxury of a washing machine. Imagine this is how you wash your clothes …
Not made in Safi, as it would cost too much to make it there.
The dried clay is bought cheap and wettened
To massage and to use as base material. Clay of Safi is very fine.
Using the wheel. The man made these small objects for us in 10 minutes. A lot of standard forms.
From Clay to burned clay, the first step (at 900C), fueled with local tree branches.
By young men earning 250 EUR/mont by sitting whole days like this and repeating the paintings again and again
A real art gallery
In the inside of an old furnace.
… just with trashed nice and old tiles ..
We went back to Essaouira and visited the non touristic areas and beaches.
The outlet of the outlet of the outlet shops … and more.
Men sometimes live here in the week to make some money, separate from their family.
Building and other trash, stabilised the ground
And made our own lunch table on the beach with what we found there.
Ceramic industry lively in essaouira
Made from tiles trashed on an Essaouira beach
Made from tiles trashed on an Essaouira beach
Made from tiles trashed on an Essaouira beach
Meanwhile we spent a few weeks in Belgium (workshop of Silvija “the joy of being alive“).
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