A paradise without angels

by Salma JEBBARI (Morocco)

I didn't expect to find Morocco

We all wonder how heaven could possibly look like? believe me, it’s no more impossible once you see the dazzling Majorelle garden, that would take you to fantasy dreams and feelings, it is a thing of imagination, serenity and love. We went to Marrakech, Morocco as to live our new year’s adventures, however, we had literally lived other people’s adventures inside that garden, it wasn’t even planned to get there, something happened and we were just like ’’Ok let’s see Yves Saint Laurent’s house during an hour before going back home’’. Before seeing Majorelle villa, I thought, it’s nothing more than a cute house surrounded by cute flowers, where Yves Saint Laurent lived and died; in reality, it was true love from the first sigh. The people who lived there haven’t ever thought about staying in Morocco, until they saw the garden, the thing that changed completely their whole lives. It took the French painter, Jacques Majorelle forty years of passion and love to create such an unbelievable place on earth. How fantastic! All nature that I could have seen or heard about in my whole life is resumed there; Wild, Cute and sweet colorful exotic plants from all the five continents, as same as the nationalities of the visitors. I'm studying agriculture, however, believe me, I literally have never ever seen that kind of colorful flowers and higher trees. The smell, the view and even the air were strongly different. A large aquarium regrouped small cute red fishes, well, I'm honestly jealous of those fishes. They felt happier than humans! More than 15 birds species love and live in the garden. The basic colors of the place were so vibrant, bright and opposite; the Majorelle blue and butter yellow. There was also a Sublime closed blue and yellow Cubist villa, that offers much peace and spirit. Yves’s grave was fully surrounded by Bamboo as if they were hugging it, may god bless his soul. There was also a Muslim museum which is forbidden to take photos from inside it, as well as how unique and valuable the pieces were. Yves’s Library was full of fashion and modeling magazines, flowers were put everywhere, everyone who entered had to write and add his story to the garden’s story. Majorelle garden is a couple of power and light. It's the only place where you could literally touch the brightness of the nature's soul. The last things are the fabulous paintings by Majorelle. They all were about LOVE. They are drawn with much love and emotions; the color of that love was spreading all over the place and made it more beautiful. While discovering the place, many languages were spoken at the same time, while no one was mine, which made me feel freaking free to say all the Arabic insults as compliments! Nobody would get it anyway, when I asked in English for someone to take me a picture, then, they all had responded, at that moment, I truly felt the brilliant power of the language. while mom was taking pictures of a pure basin, a guy was waiting to take her place, I was like: ‘mom, hurry up! someone is waiting’, she responded: ‘I don’t care, I’m taking my time’, my cousin interrupted: ‘look! Look at his hair, it literally looks like our auntie’s hairs’, and we all started to laugh out loud, thinking that he couldn’t get it, whereas he got it all, we felt so embarrassed and we just vanished away. I got happier when I have taken photos with Asian and Indian families. Wow! I truly saw that fictional perception of heaven that I have always wanted to discover after life! I’m strongly thankful, I had the chance to visit such paradise on earth, feels like the god loves me and wanted me to touch the deepest connection between my soul and nature. How impressive! Majorelle villa, the unlimited source of inspiration, changes the faith of everyone who comes to see it, it doesn’t matter how, but I feel like something in my life is going to change thanks to it. Majorelle villa web site : jardinmajorelle.com Open every day of the year. Email: info@jardinmajorelle.com