A hard but sweet-smelling slog on Mt Atlas – Morocco's Valley of the Roses
Share A worker spreads rose petals outside a house in the city of Kelaat Mgouna (or Tighremt NImgunen) in Morocco’s central Tinghir Province in the Atlas Mountains on April 26, 2021. AFP A hard but sweet-smelling slog on Mt Atlas – Morocco’s Valley of the Roses Mon, 10 May 2021 To earn a dollar, rose picker Izza in Morocco's Atlas Mountains wakes up at dawn to collect three kilos of flowers – eventually distilled into precious oil costing $18,000 per kilo. "We earn just enough to live on," she says, her hands gloved against the thorns and her head covered against the hot sun bearing d...