Feature | Branislav Bieleny | Making Waves in Morocco
T
hey respectfully turn their heads six times a On the other hand, in this part of the world, when it
day in prayer to Allah then with a surfboard comes to staking out claims to surfing territories,
under their arms determine ownership over the Moroccans do not exhibit strong symptoms of
surfing territories on local beaches. This was the patriotism, which even today occurs on some of
impression that we had, as we were a bunch of the Australian or Californian beaches. And maybe,
European surfers visiting this north African country
perhaps we were simply lucky enough to find one
whose inhabitants were mostly adherents of Islam. of the best spots for comfortable surfing with no
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