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Essaouira 2006, Gnaoua Festival, 2nd day. Abdellah El Gourd, Gaada Diwane

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Friday, June 23 2006

1 year, 11 months, 1 day

Essaouira, Morocco

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Manfred is creator of ThisFabTrek.com, photography and journey, a travel blog (since 2004).

I try to understand, report and photograph, enjoy, live and inhale different conceptions of life (all that TV [and the web] cannot give). I reject jealousy, animosity, bigotry. Be free!

Manfred in the desert of the Western Sahara

The mind, when pondering at night had always asked those questions. What am I doing in corporate wonderland of bank, university, office or church? Who is the other animal asleep inside, the thinker, punk, creative, or Indian, vagabond and healer, maybe artist, writer, photographer and traveler? Oh God, dare you to think. So when seeing the lies, gambles and manipulations I followed my old dream and set out for the real journey, the one that is call life lived.

Many years later having lived that life on the road and taken the turns as they have come along, I have realized one thing: Only such a small part of the planet can ever be explored and such a vast land and sea mass will always remain unknown; many swamps, jungles, deserts and oceans I will never travel. I am father of twin boys, Daniel and David, my most important. ThisFabTrek is ongoing. Photography and Journey, Stories from the Road and Life around the World, Love and Peace.

Current vehicle.

G20, Gladiator.

Chevrolet Gladiator G20, Christina in Southern California.
Current Journey, Americas.

Every truck needs a lady. The G20, the vehicle that came to me for the Americas adventures.

6 wheeled Land Rover.

Land Rover Defender 6x6
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The vehicle of the Africa adventures, a Foley 6-Wheeled Land Rover Defender.

Before, the MB307.

Manfred and MB307
Journey, Middle East.

The vehicle of the Middle-East and North-Cape Journies. See all vehicles.

Daniel and David with nanny Aisha, the best we ever had, black African Woman carrying white twin babies, in Bamako, Mali.

Land Rover 47,032km

Trekking 313km

Ferry 730km

Train 150km

Other cars 12,443km

(MB207 7,208km)

Journey Journal.

contains Festival/Art photography.

"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it, to tell the tale." Living to Tell the Tale - Gabriel García Márquez.

"They never taught wandering in any school I attended. ... they never taught the art of writing a book, either. It's all so mysterious."
"Wandering is an art in itself. Wandering and writing don't mix"
"Writing demands commitment and if one thing your wanderer is allergic to is that very quality of commitment, for once one is committed he runs that very risk of failure ..." Wanderer - Sterling Hayden.

"Photography enables you to grasp a place first time round. ... Photography is a means of exploration, it's a vital part of travel, almost as essential as a car or a plane. " - Wim Wenders.

"The worst prejudice we acquire during our youth is the idea that life is serious. Children have the right instincts: they know that life is not serious, and treat it as a game..." , Egon Friedell.

"How far you gonna go. Before you lose your way back home" - Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World, Achtung Baby, U2.

"If you want to be a hero well just follow me." - Working Class Hero, John Lennon.

"When I think of all the things I have done, I know that it's only just begun." - I love you, Lou Reed.

"One does not escape the Sahara - the Sahara let's you go or not" - Touareg.

"Planet earth is blue and there`s nothing I can do" - This is Ground Control to Major Tom, David Bowie.

"Glory for the crazy people/in this stupid world" - Ahmed Fouad Negm.

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Gnawa/Gnaoua music was brought to Morocco by the ancestors of today's celebrated musicians, slaves, captured in Sub-Saharan Africa over the centuries.

The word Gnawa most likely is being derived from the ancient trading empire of Ghana which covered parts of Mauritania and Mali. But slaves came frome all corners of Sub Saharan Afrika. Guinea, Gambia, Tchad, Ghana etc.

Maâlem Abdellah El Gourd (Tanger).

and his Dar Gnawa troupe.

Abdellah El Gourd, Essaouira 2006
Maâlem Abdellah El Gourd.
Abdellah El Gourd, Essaouira 2006
Maâlem Abdellah El Gourd.
Abdellah El Gourd, Essaouira 2006
Abdellah El Gourd, Essaouira 2006
Abdellah El Gourd, Essaouira 2006
Abdellah El Gourd, Essaouira 2006
Abdellah El Gourd, Essaouira 2006
Abdellah El Gourd, Essaouira 2006
Abdellah El Gourd, Essaouira 2006
Abdellah El Gourd, Essaouira 2006
Maâlem Abdellah El Gourd.

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Gaâda Diwane de Béchar (Algeria).

"Gaâda means get together, Diwane is a style of music which roots from South Algeria" Gaada.net. A bit like Gnawa but a different braket.

Gaada Diwane, Essaouira 2006
Gaada Diwane, Essaouira 2006
Gaada Diwane, Essaouira 2006
Gaada Diwane, Essaouira 2006
Gaada Diwane, Essaouira 2006
Gaada Diwane, Essaouira 2006
Gaâda Diwane de Béchar.

Gaada Diwane, Essaouira 2006
Gaada Diwane, Essaouira 2006
Gaada Diwane, Essaouira 2006
castanets

Gaada Diwane, Essaouira 2006
Group of great musicians.
Gaada Diwane, Essaouira 2006
... and voices ...
Gaada Diwane, Essaouira 2006
... sometimes mystic.

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