Riders. Morocco Fantasia Festival.


This is one particularly stunning and exciting event that has taken its rightful place among the more noteworthy examples of traditional folklore in Morocco Each tribe repeatedly formed the line charged across the field and fired off their rifles during the three day competition The frenzied dash of horses is accompanied by the piercing cries of the riders and terse orders from their chief until the whole thing explodes in a blaze of gun fire from their famous moukhahla the rifles that are so highly prized by gun collectors 28 07 2006


Size: 3413px × 5120px
Location: Chichaua, Morocco
Photo credit: © Oleg Seleznev / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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