0180. Another Souss Town (Mor 029--revisit)

Back down in the Souss Region to see family--of course I took my guitar with me and as soon as I got off the bus in Inezgane, my first thought was to go do a little parkbenching before it got too late. So I headed out east.

"Agadir is the other way!" someone hollered at me.

But I wasn't headed to Agadir, I was headed to Ait Mellioul. Another of the cluster of towns here in the Souss Valley. 

Agadir is the big, touristy city and Inezgane is the commercial and transportation hub--Ait Mellioul isn't really known for anything...except maybe a little industry on the outskirts.  It's actually a pretty sleepy town in comparison with the others.  In the evening, when Moroccan towns usually come alive, Ait Mellioul is closed up and gone to sleep.  A lot of the respectable, locked up apartments on the main stretch are second homes of well to do Berbers in the countryside--or by Berbers living abroad.  There's definitely more of an air of moderate prosperity here compared to towns like Ben Ahmed or Bir Jdid.

No old medina--just the crumbling remnants of a few walls.  Found a nice little park--but it was locked up tight will local ladyfolk relaxing outside the iron fence.  They didn't seem interested in entertainment however.

For lack of anything better, I took my clip sitting at a quiet sweetshop enjoying a delicious glass of "raib".