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26 reviews 28 travel blogs 149 photos Attraction Type:
Ancient ruins, Cemetery, Historic site
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Rabat, like a tourist
Well I checked off everything on my list that my guidebook told me to see - like a good tourist should do. Of course Rabat has more to offer than just its guidebook attractions, but they have continued to hide from me much to the credit of this unforgiving language barrier. I spent most of the day in quiet solitude, among a constant mass of people …
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Fes not 'Merica
Well it Thursday came and went, we went to this ancient city in Rabat called Chellah. It was founded by the Phoenicians, the Romans took it over for some time, and then Moroccan Kings. Anyway, we get in and it was pretty cool to see ...
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Now we're in Rabat!
... ; The first stop on our trip (after 11 hours in the air and 7 hours at airports) was the capital city of Morocco, our beloved Rabat. We received our bags, met up with Dr. Nagy to fill out paperwork for the hotel, and off we went into ...
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From Casablanca to Meknčs-The First Few Days
... roof for sunny days and interiors as vast as natural spaces. From Casablanca we drove to Rabat, the modern capital of Morocco. Morocco's well-heeled intelligentsia has migrated to this orderly administrative hub. Just outside of the city are the ...
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2nd Week
... old islamic school inside of it. We went to a couple of palaces as well as a old prison. Most of the sites are just like Chellah meaning that there is no organizations or signs to tell you what stuff is. Anyway it was some what cool to see. It was really ...
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Morocco Part 1: Wait, are we really in Africa?
... the truth. Although their religion can be a large part of their lives, it does not revolve around it. Our next stop was Rabat, Morocco’s capital. We had a three hour bus ride…actually this "bus" was more like Scooby Doo’s ...
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Rabat Chellah
... most ambitious mosques in the Muslim world at the time. In the 13th century, the Moroccan capitol moved to Fes. Rabat and the Chellah were abandoned, but a hundred years later, Rabat was developed into a Merinid stronghold by sultan Abu I-Hasan, ...
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Out and about
... of the King's father) with the Hassan Tower next to it, a quick look at the outside of the Royal Palace & the pretty Chellah Gardens. We finished the day by driving to Fes where we went for dinner and returned to our hotel for a few ...
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Fresh in Rabat
... for our embassy in Tangiers, one that we still own, now under the watchful eye of the Facility Manager in Rabat. Morocco people are friendly and likable. Ramadan dinners are big greagarious family events every day after fasting from sunup. ...
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Rabat Streets
... centuries, each new Sultan making his selection as best suited his defensive strategy, political organization and entertainment agenda. Rabat was Morocco's capitol in the 16th century, but was destroyed by the Portuguese for bad manners. It was ...
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Weekend Update, continued
... explains why some of the kids seem so much more ill than others. This afternoon we took a field trip to Chellah, which is located in Rabat. It is a site of some ruins from a mosque from the 14th century. As was Volubulus, it ...
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