cascades d'ouzou

last weekend, we went to the cascades in the middle atlas mountains to hike and swim and see monkeys. probably my favorite weekend trip, along with the sahara! there were lots of places to jump off of rocks into really deep cold water (which felt great after our hike!), and it was clean and protected wildlife, without the commercial buildup of niagara falls.











































on our hike, you could see caves in the rock cliff, where there are still neolithic cave paintings (it can only be reached by rappelling down ropes.. "so easy, a caveman could do it"...?), and archaeologists are still digging around up there.


























and while we were eating our lunch, barbary apes came and helped themselves to our bread and melon. they were kind enough to stay for a brief photo shoot.