Erfoud

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Packing up our Land Rovers		 erfoud02.jpg (60336 bytes)
Paved road ended after Erfoud		 erfoud03.jpg (63409 bytes)
Area is known for its fossils		 erfoud04.jpg (53408 bytes)

Some ancient sea fossils
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More fossils		 erfoud06.jpg (65340 bytes)
Better fossils		 erfoud07.jpg (62319 bytes)
Slate rocks with fossils to be used as tabletops		 erfoud08.jpg (58624 bytes)
Shop where numerous items are cut
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Rock cut open with beautiful fossil inside		 erfoud10.jpg (39487 bytes)
Beeter view		 erfoud11.jpg (71186 bytes)
Finished product		 erfoud12.jpg (90430 bytes)
Local donkeys
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Erfoud only became an organized town during the French Protectorate.  Resistance tot he French in the area by the Aït Berber Atta tribe had started in 1916 and lingered on sporadically until the 1930s.  The establishment by the French  of an important military and administrative center in Erfoud was necessary to control Morocco's Saharan fringes and the dissident tribes.