Remote Moroccan villages, historic Marrakesh hit hard by quake
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00:00 This is Idjukak, a village on the tourist trail in the Atlas Mountains.
00:04 How it was, and how it is now.
00:07 Today there is little left to recognize the place.
00:10 The whole neighborhood, more than 200 houses made from bricks or wood, collapsed.
00:15 Higher up in the mountain, this is the town of Talat and Yakub, close to the earthquake's epicenter.
00:21 Almost total destruction here.
00:23 It's difficult to find any sign of what made it a picture postcard village of the past,
00:28 the homes that clung to the mountains.
00:30 You can clearly see from the satellite image before and after the earthquake.
00:36 The center of the village, circled here, wiped out.
00:40 70 kilometers north, this is how some of the ancient quarters of Marrakesh look now, filmed on social media.
00:48 The Medina, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, partly damaged and full of rubble, compared to how it looked before.
00:55 And the great mosque of Tinmal in the high Atlas Mountains, built in the 12th century.
01:00 Seen here in satellite images, and earlier pictures too.
01:04 An exterior of a medieval fortress, an exquisite architecture inside, now turned into a ruin.
01:11 Only a few cracked walls still stand, the minarets fallen,
01:16 and much of the mosque's interior, in the midst of renovation,
01:20 collapsed.
01:24 collapsed.