Winners of the Miss Rose beauty pageant joining a parade during the annual Rose Festival in Kalaat M’Gouna. The small town in the High Atlas mountains comes to life each year during the International Rose Festival, now in its 60th year. — AP
GLOVED and armed with shears, women weave through thorny brambles, clipping and tossing their harvest into wheelbarrows.
“Thank God for the rain,” said rose picker Fatima El Alami. “There are roses elsewhere, but there’s nowhere like here.”
