but 2 halves considered spare parts larby is planning a trip to casablanca in his native morocco by car 3000 kilometers as the crow flies from start cart. one last check before the trip as the neighbors look on. larvae as a trained car mechanic and worked for decades in a mercedes contract the ranch. who she knows the 124 inside out here just how old is it now i don't place 31 doesn't know. about even so the car's flawless that's all you can come with me in morocco there's enough space that's going to be offered colonists as a bit too much of a surprise for pater base neighbor. it's a pleasure for your father so i'll show you some pictures of morocco. just to look at the whole car park is just w 123 taxis but they're really sturdy with those little boys. all this is because

of and that's casablanca downtown this used to be or you see only 123 is everywhere no matter where you look. at the bush and a lot of morocco just gets more beautiful every time i go there but it's my home after all i love. casablanca and industrial and commercial metropolis on the atlantic home to 4000000 people and morocco's largest city. and its largest hometown. he grew up in the day absolute time neighborhood. he comes to visit once a year sometimes he comes alone sometimes with his why. if in tucson's marvie

retired a few weeks ago in the future he plans to come to morocco not just for a few days but for a few months each year for. local blokes you don't want to rocco is still my home but my roots are here germany is my 2nd home to where i earn my living. so both morocco and germany have become my home and i cannot live without either of them. one critic. well so is this. that's why every year he drives from one country to the other and

back again with his mercedes which looks perfectly at home in morocco whereas in germany it almost seems like a relic from times past. either spend months or even for the going to. be you know you live about to discuss a life and that's the best that i've heard that. her is able to feel no use to zoophilia early parking lots of if you. want to know if you need some of it and it was originally permissible. now somebody trips from the fuzzy a little bit of an old movie you both heard in the movie just. on the leaves eat we feel beautiful with my. hands.

back in casablanca the w 124 like the one larby drives is considered almost a new car here not least due to the price. the cityscape is dominated by the preceeding 123. its nickname in morocco is the white shark. they're mostly used as call taxi which are generally booked for longer trips. they work according to the principle of shared taxi. driver starts when the car is full. most call a taxi are mercedes 240 diesels. did that is. the . modern competitors are catching up vans made by rhinos low priced romanian brand dacha are picking up the pace here. but the passengers swear

by mercedes and the mercedes taxi drivers who wait here for customers in moroccan style relaxing with a glass of coffee. that read that document who may is 59 years old and has been a taxi driver for almost half his life he drives daily from casablanca to el gato his native village about an hour away he travels 4 to 500 kilometers every day is taxi seats up to 6 passengers 4 in the back 2 in the front. also drives a diesel the fuel is cheaper than gasoline in america and off meds white shark uses around 8 leaders per 100 kilometers that's hardly any worse than a new car. there's a. possibility what you i looked at some new colors but i didn't like them.

compared to mercedes or liability is downright ridiculous. in the mercedes you can drive even 2 or 3000 kilometers without worrying about whether you'll break down in the desert or somewhere. of that. you'll always get where you're going. although you sure goal. hard to believe if you take a closer look at off with car it is after. 36 years old. that does not know how many kilometers it's clicked the a daw matter is broken. learning. for the good. of the. world and we see him on the lookout for spare parts.

a replacement spit on matter perhaps larby both can help his parts warehouse has nearly everything especially for the 240 diesel the most common model here but every year it gets harder to find used parts 10 years from now larby says there won't be any more. he can still get a lot of parts from europe from cars that have been in accidents or were scrapped every 3 to 4 months he receives a delivery by ship the last one came a month ago and has almost been completely sold on. unfortunately this white mudguard which could use comes from the wrong car the successor model. and then there's a problem with ahmed's 123 it's leaking water but it's not a cracked hose it's something much worse the thermostat housing is corroded the surface all eaten away what's needed is

a new part but that cost several $100.00 drams or he can try the garage across the street. what follows is an introduction to moroccan improvise ation involving advanced aluminum welding the welding wire comes from an old alternator housing and it's all done freehand. after a few minutes the corroded hose connectors are welded. they grind off the excess material. for her theory. now they only need to put together a seal and the thermostat housing can be reinstalled. the entire repair takes half an hour and costs around $6.00 euros. minutes mercedes is good to go.

up in morocco a lot of people live with all their cds and make a living off them but if the us already have their way that won't be the case for much longer other countries baracoa is fighting air pollution the state pays taxi drivers half of the purchase price if they buy a new car even so most cannot afford to replace their vehicles and cannot get a bank loan for us meant a new car is out of the question for me i'll be the last one to get rid of the car repair is the truth no way in my treating it. that's because the car provides his income and his family's off med can afford an apartment in one of the better neighborhoods of casablanca he lives here with his wife and daughter and his mother in law and her nephew. his son lives in new york where he too works as a taxi driver. but it's not easy pace the quibble into 2 months earnings just for

the job training for his daughter ayesha she wants to become a flight attendant a job where you have to know people are met says nothing happens in morocco without the right connections. but. that. life is expensive and difficult for taxi drivers. nothing is provided for you here health care or unemployment pensions. these are all things that we have to cover ourselves. already told very little. morocco is a country in transition agriculture phosphate mining and tourism are the pillars of the economy as is illegal hasheesh farming. morocco is

a monarchy the king is as popular as he is powerful he holds sway over the economy. even so unemployment is high one quarter of the population cannot read or write. security and stability take precedence over freedom of expression and the right to demonstrate. achmet could have been a government employee for life as a police man but after 2 years he decided it was not his true calling. for. i saw too much inequality but no democracy too many things i didn't like.

to force that's why i turned to the profession but it's fascinated me since i was a boy driving a taxi but simple as that. so doing his dream job for 25 years now always in the same car just this simple for me this old mercedes is my faithful companion the one who is if i really admire you i would like to stay with her till you know there's. the good to be a mosque one of the iconic landmarks of morocco. the red city around. caus pearl of the south more than a 1000 years old and one of the former royal cities mark ash. the city is surrounded by a wall 19 kilometers long it once offered protection against bandits who threaten

to take merchants goods or their lives it was a perilous time which explains the name of the city. does it it's made up of 2 arabic words more or kush you go fast but you the area around america was very dangerous and the caravans had to pass through it quickly you put the old city ramparts in the towers provided security for the caravans not one of the couple as did the ins catering to caravans not because they all had big gates and more cush go fast but to the name america shushan that is what i couldn't stop. talking let's see our nose the city like the back of his hand not least the souk the bazaar in mara cash with its 10000 traders hakim is a tourist guide he speaks english german and french the 2nd official language in morocco the biggest contingent of tourists here come from france followed by spain

and germany practically everything on offer here is aimed at visitors from abroad but hakim says 99 percent of the products in the souk are produced in morocco and many right here in the bazaar. traditional handicrafts instead of cheap copies from abroad this benefits local producers and ensures traditional techniques of work. arnold lost. talking to the tourist guide is 45 years old that happens to have

a doctorate in science he studied in dusseldorf but instead of researching he shows tourists his city. this is an apostle and that's what it's always been a passion of mine for me i like to show my country to people because i have seen that many people from europe like germany do not have the right image of our of my out those english village thinking they're do buttons of this and. that's why he also offers tours of parts of the old town where tourists rarely venture the mark has of the moroccans just around the corner from the shiny facades of the modern tower blocks. hakim's main message is that morocco is a liberal country including in religious matters he calls it islam lite. fundamentalist islam he says is not very popular here. all this bakery

does is take the customers mix the day with themselves the baker just pushes it into the oven.