The biggest mosque in Morocco is in Casablanca and can hold up to 100 000 people in it!
They have street-snail stands down by the beach in Casablanca - for those late night snail cravings that all frenchmen get...
We did an 8 hour drive south from Casablanca to Marakesh to Agadir. One lane mountain roads with overloaded trucks like this in front of you, rolled buses on the side of the road, security check points and paying off the local police are the norm.
We arrived in Agadir at 1am, we checked out all the spots we were gonna hit the next day, had trouble finding a hotel (since all the hotel workers were already asleep and didn't want to wake up to check us in) and went to the beach to see the lighted Hollywood style hill over the town "Allah, The King, The People".
Skating in Agadir was sick! All three of us put it down...Skate-business!
Nick Pierre - Noseslide on a beachside 10-stair hubba
Josh - Super long and colourful boardslide (1st try with security on the lurk)
Nick Fulton - Backslide flip alley gap
On our way back from Agadir we took the beach road instead of the mountain road and went along the beautiful Taghazout coastline. Once we cut inland again, we came across tree-goats! This is the only place in the world where goats climb trees...you have to see it to believe it. There was one tree that had maybe 10 goats in it! I even climbed up into the tree with them...they didn't even seem to mind.
Tom Wilk joined us for 2 nights, one of partying in the strangest club I've ever been to and another night of roaming Casablanca's old walled city "The M'Dina" - which is now Casablanca's ghetto. We roamed the streets with Ares (Amine's pitbull) and met some friends from the skatepark that sang and played classic 70's & 80's rock with new Arabic lyrics, all the while taming the local glueheads.
Amine took us to his beach houses in Bouznika. This one has a big piece of land infront, which he plans to make into a skatepark. Nick Fulton and I broke it in already.
Nick Pierre - Dirt Bush Jump
Amine is still working hard to build a public skatepark in Casablanca, as well as his own private park at his beach house. We'll be back in Morocco for the grand openings.
Thanks for all the good times Amine and good luck!
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ReplyDeletei was wondering if u guys know any skate parks in morocco
im going there for a vist nd im hoping i can find a skatepark there
---any help =]
There is a private skatepark in Casablanca, but I've never been. There are a bunch of public squares though where they allow skateboarding and there are ramps, rails & etc. set up.
ReplyDeleteCasablanca: Nevada Square
Agadir: The square just north of the central beach.
Rabat: The square infront of the parliment buildings.