Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Casablanca: Fantasia horse festival

The 'Fantasia' is a very traditional and cultural festival in Morocco and it's the first time that I have seen such a thing! It was incredible...
20 horsemen or so - grouped according to their tribe and dressed up in the tribe's emblem - line up closely next to each others and dash all together by command of their chief towards the spectators, just to brake a few seconds later and to shoot a blaze of gun-fire from their 'moukhahla' - which definitely is ear-battering...
As soon as one 'wave' of riders has finished, the next tribe is already waiting to perform...



















1 comment:

  1. Many great shots of the horses and the firing guns !

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