Morocco 2012

Visit to Morocco, Friday 13th April 2012 to Sunday 22nd, for the Third Lead Author meeting of the IPCC WG1 Fifth Assessment Report, which took place Monday 16th to Friday 20th in Marrakech.

Images are © Jonathan Gregory 2012.

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Approaching Marrakech
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The conference hotel and the meeting venue
d006-1019 Mansour Eddahbi hotel d005-968w Palais des Congrès (the IPCC banner is just legible at maximum magnification, evidently much less important than the Ideal Home exhibition)
Visit to the High Atlas Mountains
Eric Guilyardi, Cecilie Mauritzen, Steve Rintoul, Rowan Sutton and I spent the weekend before the meeting walking in the High Atlas.
d005-867 d005-868w On the way to Imlil, Friday 13th
d005-880w d005-877w Views of Aït Souka from the rooftop terrace of Riad Oussagou, our guesthouse in Imlil, Saturday morning
d005-885 View up the valley E of Imlil
d005-884 d005-886 d005-888 Views SW towards Tizi n'Mzik (pass) as we descended into Imlil
d005-890w Toubkal (4167 m) seen from Imlil d005-893w High street in Imlil
d005-895 d005-898 Mzikene on the hillside W of Imlil
d005-900 d005-905 d005-911 Views NE towards Imlil as we ascended towards Tizi n'Mzik
d005-908 d005-914 Tizi n'Mzik
d005-917 d005-919 Views NE and SW from Tizi n'Mzik (2489 m)
d005-923 View NE of Tizi n'Mzik as we descended d005-922 On the path to Tizi Oussem
d005-920 d005-924 Views along the valley N of Tizi Oussem
d005-929 d005-934a d005-935w Cascades d'Irhoulidene above Azib Tamsoult
d005-947w d005-948w d005-950w In the gîte at Tizi Oussem, Saturday evening
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d005-953w d005-955 d005-956w Tizi Oussem, Sunday morning
d005-959w Clouds rising behind us as we ascended towards Tizi n'Tzikert (pass)
d005-960 d005-963 d005-964 On Tizi n'Tzikert (2930 m)
d005-965 View NE from Tizi n'Tzikert of Aroumd, near Imlil
Marrakech
I spent Saturday 21st April, after the meeting, looking round Marrakech.
d005-970w d005-972w d006-1018w Menara of Koutoubia Mosque (12th century)
d005-974 d005-977 d005-978 d005-979w Badi Palace (built in the 16th century, sacked the next century, now inhabited by storks)
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d005-986w d005-987w d005-991 Bahia Palace (late 19th century)
d005-994 Kasbah Mosque (12th century) d005-999w At the Saadian Tombs (16th century, rediscovered in the 20th)
d005-993w d006-1002w Street scenes
d006-1003w d006-1008 Place Jemaa El Fna, the main square
d006-1014w d006-1017w Médersa (madrasah) ben Youssef (16th century)