Traveling with the Smithsonian in Morocco

Last month I had the honor of joining a Smithsonian Journeys trip as their Morocco expert. We spent 12 days traveling through Morocco on a route that I have traveled countless times before.

It's the same route that I've taken for years through the Middle and High Atlas mountains on Kantara buying trips, visiting artisans along the way. This time I returned with a tour director who has spent the last 38 years leading trips in Morocco.

Needless to say, we covered a lot of ground-- geographically, as well as in terms of content matter.

Here are some of the highlights of the trip:

We visited the potters in Fes and learned about the zellij tile work.