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Travel Blogs from Meknes
Meknes - Living in Moroccan Time
... up because of the bumpy ride. Btw, we did give the bag guy some money at the end. I could write tons more on our Moroccan travel experiences alone, but there is a lot more we did in Morocco then travel. Jess and I were both excited for Meknes, because we got to couch surf!! This was the first of the two times we got to surf in Morocco. Here was our chance to really expereince Moroccan culture in a way that no hostel can give us. We were staying with a ...
Romans and Muslims Make Their Marque
... housed 12,000 houses in a massive stone arched structure that gives it a subterranean feel when walking through it (He loved his horses!).
Having put in a full day of discovering new places, we were ready to go back to Fes for our last night before returning to Marrakech by train in the morning. We were also beginning to feel like we both had colds starting. It is a rare thing when we both get sick at the same time but that is what travel sometimes ...
Khemisset
... soccer. Or adults playing soccer - Thursday I watched with Abdelkahdr the second half of a soccer game that he said was two teams of tailors. They looked much too fit to be tailors (I have a mental image of elderly skinny men in spectacles sitting crosslegged under fields of cloth). Thursday night was the Barcelona-Real Madrid game. When I walked back from town in the evening half the male population of Khemisset was crowded into cafes (no women in evidence).
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Camel sandwich
... far into my guided tour, I tried to get an idea of the cost of such kindness, but no such discussion was possible as my guide said that at the end of the tour we would agree on a price that would make him happy and me happy.
Well, I've got to say that I was quite happy with my tour through the medina. Although, the cost was probably slightly inflated, I was satisfied with my investment in a guide. Unlike the typical tour that would contain all of ...
Saharan by Day and Night
... to ours. I was tired so I actually called it an early night at 11:30pm.
2/11/11
We woke up SUPER early to be down in the lobby of the hotel by 7:45am. Breakfast was quick and rushed and we didn’t end up leaving hotel Rif until close to 9am. We stopped for a bathroom break once and again at around 3 for lunch. We arrived in Tanger around 4pm and were supposed to depart on the ferry at 4:30, but didn’t even end ...
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- Swimming pool
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Restaurant