Our day’s excursion to 1400 years in the past starts at 9 o’clock from your hotel when we
drive across the Saiss Plain to the wonderful holiest Islamic town in the kingdom of Morocco,
where thousands of Moroccan faithful come on pilgrimage (moussem) every August to pray
at the tomb of this descendant of the Prophet Mohammed. Arriving at the elongated square
we see above us the green-tiled pyramids of the Zaouia with its two conical quarters on either
side and stroll amidst the labyrinth of alleyways before leaving for the Imperial City rebuilt
by Moulay Ismail.
