Morocco Travel Blogs

... sky, a centrally heated floor. It is definitely one of the most beautiful religious buildings I have ever seen. Throughout Morocco, I will be struggling with a French keyboard. The letters "a", "q", "z", "w" and "m" are in different positions than ...

A travel blog entry from Casablanca by kimandmartin
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... the Prophet Mohammed; there's a king's palace in virtually every city in the country. There is also an elected government. Morocco faces massive challenges: 20% unemployment, an illiteracy rate of 60% (as a result many signs are pictograms), mass exodus ...

A travel blog entry from Todra Gorge by kimandmartin
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... we stopped at Amridil a 17th century kasbah which can be seen on the Moroccan 50 dirham note. The landscape in Morocco is certainly variable. There's the green agricultural land of Fez (including many cacti and succulents), the sand of the desert, ...

A travel blog entry from Ait Benhaddou by kimandmartin
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Ah, it feels good! Finally a bit of chaos again. Johana and I found return flights from Madrid to Casablanca for about 58 Euros per head with EasyJet. And with only a three hours train ride inland to Marrakech from Casablanca, we both looked forward to ...

A travel blog entry from Marrakech by stevefn
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... would demonstrate, with this hands where Quebec was relative to British Columbia, then compare it to saying that Egypt and Morocco (probably the same distance apart) were the same thing. It left them completely dumbfounded. Somehow we didn't spend all ...

A travel blog entry from Marrakech by kimandmartin
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... the night of 22 June 2006 in Stuttgart. My biggest regret about Marrakech is my inability to spend longer here. My itinerary in Morocco has turned into a whirlwind tour, running around every 2 to 3 days in search of a new medina to get lost in. It ...

A travel blog entry from Marrakech by marktjhung
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... his personal army consisting of 150,000 descendents of black slaves who maintained control over the unruly tribes and made Morocco virtually impenetrable. Moulay Ismail ruled with unabashed cruelty - legend has it that he killed over 30,000 people himself ...

A travel blog entry from Fez by kimandmartin
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... ride, but we learned a very important lesson in that short amount of time; never buy second-class train tickets in Morocco! Unlike first-class tickets that have reserved seats, they sell an unlimited number of second-class tickets for any given train. So ...

A travel blog entry from Fes by globedecker
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... never planned to head to Africa but looking at our options of where to go from Spain, and also our dwindling bank accounts, Morocco seemed like an ideal choice. The guidebook we had made getting into the country by the most traveled route, Algecieras to ...

A travel blog entry from Fes by philthy
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... (as it also was in Marrakech and Casablanca), so it's pretty hard to miss the call at 5:30 am! The call to prayer in Morocco is not nearly as easy on the ears as in the Middle East. In Syria, Jordan and Turkey it was generally a very melodic song and ...

A travel blog entry from Essaoiura by kimandmartin
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... and then catching a train to go to Casablanca so we can fly to Tunis the next day. Look out for our closing comments on Morocco as well as a travelogue from our two-day visit to Tunisia to be posted in about four or five days. She Said: It feels ...

A travel blog entry from Essaouira by globedecker
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... all, there were probably less than 30 people at the entire expansive site. I love visiting places like this! So far, Morocco has been far more hassle-free than I originally expected. I had anticipated something closer to my prior experience in Egypt; ...

A travel blog entry from Meknes by globedecker
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... .  Then I see another of our group get quite rude with the man making the coffee.  She must have forgotten she's in Morocco because she's expecting white coffee in a big cup.  Just wanted to go over and give her a slap.  She has a very ...

A travel blog entry from Casablanca by aussiepanda
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... , which are really old and historically important, and which I dutifully read about in our Lonely Planet guidebook "History of Morocco" and, like most informative historical tracts that I have read in my life, promptly forgot. You aren't really interested ...

A travel blog entry from Marrakesh by sarah
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... what a new level of Paris Hilton-ish unappreciation I have reached... Meknes proved to be the only true disappointment of Morocco. The narrow streets were jam-packed with honking, fume-spewing cars and the medina was a pale comparison to Marrakesh. ...

A travel blog entry from Tangier by sarah
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... to be quite interesting. I'm sure you'll hear a few comical remarks in her observations! Today we jumped full-on into Morocco. Walked into the medina (old city) and promptly got lost in the labyrinthine alleys. Found our way out thanks to a few local ...

A travel blog entry from Meknes by globedecker
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... bit "Morocco-ed Out" and looking forward to moving on in our journey. Our closing comments, observations, and a few questions. Morocco is very easy to travel in logistics-wise. Busses and trains (in 1st class) are very comfortable and efficient. ...

A travel blog entry from Casablanca by globedecker
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... madman, much to our amusement. In short, I have arranged for commercial export of the finest Korean chairs (being a carpenter) to Morocco; been lectured by a customs official about Islam; had an old dude tell us all about hawks; convinced a dude wearing a ...

A travel blog entry from Chefchaouen by marktjhung
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... Jane. Their flights did not depart Casablanca for a couple of days, so they decided to spend the remainder of their time in Morocco there, rather than in Casablanca where there's less to do - and the shopping isn't as good! Perhaps we will meet again ...

A travel blog entry from Casablanca by kimandmartin
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Finally arrived in Casablanca yesterday a day late but intact.  We all went to Ricks Cafe near the old old Medina and port last night for a tasty dinner and said our goodbyes.  This morning I slept in then like any good traveler ...

A travel blog entry from Casablanca by tracystravels
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(S) I think we're both still trying to collect our thoughts on Morocco - or at least I am. More later. Enjoy the pics. (C) This story has to be told, though.  We landed at port and weaved our way through the guides (who officially don't exist ...

A travel blog entry from Tangier by gr8escape
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Someone was taking the piss. Back in medieval times. The planners of Fez I mean. I can imagine them sitting around one evening over a mint tea and a spicy Moroccan tagine discussing how to make Fez the most completely impossible city to navigate. It ...

A travel blog entry from Fez by marktjhung
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... settled for some Toronto smog)! - Donkeys a.k.a. the Moroccan taxi: the donkey is the hardest working animal in Morocco...overworked and underappreciated (we've seen many donkeys getting slapped around)!!! From the medieval city of Fes, we ...

A travel blog entry from Casablanca by edamame
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Three hectic days in the Sahara were the impetus to a very lazy day in Marrakesh today, enjoying some ice cream, wandering the streets, taking photos and a bit of inane chatter. My very brief contact with the Sahara has been one of which to remember ...

A travel blog entry from Marrakesh by susan_g
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... Dirham entry fee - I glean that they are mud-brick buildings in the form of an old city, much like the rest of Morocco that's not within a Kasbah. Maybe the interior would have provided some insight. But - really - when you really think about it really ...

A travel blog entry from The Fucking Desert by marktjhung
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... down. This was happening slowly enough that you really had to watch closely to see it happening. Why Didn't We enter Morocco Here? (Tangier) Somehow I think that we were extremely misled when we decided to enter Morocco through Melilla. Tangier is ...

A travel blog entry from Tangier by philthy
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... country itself has tourist potential indeed and the tourism industry is their third largest source of income, but currently Morocco is not a country overly friendly to tourists. What should be the main sources of attraction here are the environment, ...

A travel blog entry from Marrakech by tavini
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... . Then there were the food stalls, more like outdoor restaurants, that serve up delicious Moroccan fare at cheap-even-for-Morocco prices: cuscous (a North African grain) with "the fixins" (my term, not Moroccan), tanjine (a Moroccan stew), olives, calimari ...

A travel blog entry from Marrakech by philthy
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... sludge, red (from poppy flowers) predominately filled the troughs this week! The evenings have been pretty dull since I have been in Morocco, alcohol is forbidden and women just don't really go to cafes, apart from a bit of a walk after dinner it's ...

A travel blog entry from Chefchaouen by susan_g
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Then it was on to the desert via the Middle Atlas Mountains (Morocco's greatest mountain range with more than 30 peaks over 4,000 m) and the Ziz (meaning "Gazelle") Gorge. We will be getting around the next 10 days or so in vans driven by Abdel and ...

A travel blog entry from Erg Chebbi by kimandmartin
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