Showing posts with label Jabal Toubkal National Park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jabal Toubkal National Park. Show all posts

Monday, May 29, 2017

etched into stone



On the way to Oukaïmeden in Jabal Toubkal National Park, there's a fairly large rocky area surrounded by grazing pastures that has some curious etchings. The sign at the site claims that the etchings were created 2000–3000 years ago by the original inhabitants of the area. As the etchings are not marked with any sort of roping or protection, you have to resort to walking on the rocks to find them. We were able to find a female figure, a make with a bull, another bull, and a shield of sorts with a bird.



Erosion from snow, wind and water also left some interesting marks of its own: