Ait Ben Haddou, Morocco Travel Blogs

Argument
Nov 21, 2007 (5 photos)

We were slightly delayed leaving our campsite this morning, because I had a miscommunication with the boy at the campsite about filling my bottles with drinking water. He thought I wanted to throw the bottles away, so took them off me and put them in the ...

Collapsing Kasbah ruins
Nov 20, 2007 (11 photos)

... passed women carrying bails of straw on their backs and crumbling Kasbahs blending into the stony desert landscape. The old Kasbah in Ait Benhaddou is well maintained for Moroccan standards. It is a large walled house made from mud and straw, which is ...

Are You Entertained?
Nov 13, 2006 (5 photos)

... the flavourful oil that is apparently all the rage in Europe and now New York. The grumpy bears also paid a visit to Ait Ben Haddou, a ruined former kasbah, whose most recent claim to fame is its use as a set for the film Gladiator (where Maximus was ...

A sojourn from sailing
Oct 27, 2009 (5 photos)

... we're going to stick on the wall in the head. After heading over the High Atlas pass at 2400 mtrs, we arrived at Ait Benhaddou, which is famous for it's 12 century Kasbar, which has been used for the filming of Jesus of Nazareth, Gladiator and Lawrence ...

Kasbah
Oct 13, 2008 (3 photos)

Voici la rencontre d un desert avec une riviere et une ville fortifiée préservé par l UNSECO. On sirote un thé, avec une vue magnifique et regarde la vie passée.

Ait Benhaddou
Sep 30, 2008 (37 photos)

Rock the Kasbah...

Bargaining With Moroccan Vendors & Scary Knees
Sep 14, 2008 (14 photos)

... and useless map of Morocco out as we tried to find out how to pronounce the name of our destination town that is Ait Ben Haddou. We are skipping Todra Gorge and acting on intuition. It was written wrong on our map and this explains why nobody had heard of ...

Fairytale Moroccan City & Scams At Every Turn
Sep 15, 2008 (46 photos)

... Some of the movies filmed here include Lawrence Of Arabia, The Jewel Of The Nile, Alexander, The Mummy and Gladiator. Aït Ben-Haddou, a UNESCO Heritage site is a 'fortified city', or ksar, along the former caravan route between the Sahara Desert and ...

Ait Ben Haddou - Gladiator Movies
Jan 12, 2006 (34 photos)

... of Marrakech with aplomb, and we follow our noses out of town towards the mountains and our destination - some place called Ait Ben Haddou that Dave tells us is just dandy. The distant snow hills of the High Atlas mountains are a beautiful backdrop. We ...

Telouet Ait benahdou
May 31, 2009 (15 photos)

Apres une petite apres midi a marrakech, direction le sud. Petit bivouac dans une foret pins du maroc tres ressemblante aux Landes. le lendemain nous avons decide de rejoindre ouarzazate par les pistes. Sur la route nous avons fait la rencontre Alicia, ...

Rocking the Kasbah
Mar 15, 2008 (13 photos)

... we are! A fantastic place to catch our breath, kick back & soak up some of the best scenery & hospitality  Morocco has to offer. Tomorrow we plan to get to Zagora where we hope to experience Morocco in true Berber style as we venture into ...

rock climbing & gladiator kasbah of Ait Benhaddou
May 15, 2008 (11 photos)

... - very interesting and I bought a little decorative mini tagine pot.    We drove past the Atlas movie studios - Morocco's version of Universal studios and saw some of the movie sets, the Mummy, Kingdom of Heaven and Gladiator were all ...

First time driving abroad
Oct 27, 2006 (13 photos)

... , which in the end I managed to force the door open, and ran away just in case. This guy completely freaked me out. Driving in Morocco, part 1 I took a taxi and arrived at a car rental, charging 400 dh ($52 USD) a day for a brand new Fiat, which had only ...

The Kasbah
Apr 27, 2009 (6 photos)

Ait Ben Haddou is one of the oldest Kasbahs in Morocco.  Onthe way to the hotel we saw goats on the side of a maountain.  And from the roof of the hotel I took pictures of the kasbah and the neighbors garden.  We met 2 German girls the next ...

Migrating with the Berbers
May 21, 2009 (22 photos)

So here we are in the Dades Valley, attached to a Nomadic Berber (extended) family with their 230+ goats & sheep, 3 Mules, 10 Camels, 4 Dogs, 3 Donkeys, & 2 Chickens. Family runs from Grandma down to the 2 year old & from here for 7 days it's ...

Quase no deserto
Oct 15, 2008

... por essa area quando ela leva o tiro (no filme). E fora que Ouazazate eh a Holywood do Marrocos, eles possuem vairos estudios e ateh um museu do cinema, devido a grande quantidade de filmes que fazem por la (eh a cidade mais perto de Ait Ben Haddou...)

Valli e motori...
Aug 21, 2008 (9 photos)

ritorno verso sud, visita alla valle del dades e batteria a terra la sera...

meknes, fes, medelt, sahara, todra gorge
Dec 10, 2008 (20 photos)

... and special. the ruins are definitely much more manageable than pompeii. From Volubilis, we traveled over some of the best scenery in morocco. i never expected to see snow, much less a town that looked like it belonged in the swiss alps, but we did. ...

ROCK The Kasbah
Apr 10, 2007 (15 photos)

... and runs them, until they begin to fall apart, at which time they are abandoned and the Berbers then build a new one. Ait Ben Haddou is special because it not only is where Gladiator was filmed ( personally I think the LEAST impressive bit... but they did ...

Action and Neil Diamond
Mar 9, 2009 (30 photos)

... like landscape with stunning, snow covered mountains in the distance.  Lunch stop was Ourzazate the movie capital of Morocco where movies like Gladiator, Kingdom of Heaven, Babel have been filmed. The restaurant that Abdul took us to was upstairs ...

Map pin only
Aug 27, 2007

Map pin

Ait Benhaddou
Nov 13, 2008 (3 photos)

... 2 in the front). You'd be wrong.. I believe there was about 23 people in the bus at any given time :) Arrived in Ait Benhaddou in the late afternoon, very very tired! However, still had enough energy to climb the Kasbah and just miss out on sunset ...

Ait Benhaddou
Sep 9, 2007

The most brilliant Kasbah of them all. Words can't describe it.