Casablanca, Morocco Travel Blogs

Land of the Berbers
Nov 26, 2005 (10 photos)

... the other passengers, so much of our first day in Casablanca was spent catching up on our "z"s. Casablanca at 3.8 million is the largest city in Morocco. From 1840 until 1956, Morocco was a French Protectorate; French is still widely spoken here and ...

how not to see Marrakech
Nov 3, 2007 (78 photos)

... that's being built and lost of residential development as we head in to Marrakech.  It's a like a low-rise version of Casablanca except even more chaotic.   I think we're already running a little late so Lazrak hustles us off the bus, along a ...

Casablanca and Closing Comments on Morocco
Aug 1, 2006 (3 photos)

... with all the trash, slums, noise and grit that goes along with that. According to our guidebook, the actual movie Casablanca wasn't even filmed in Morocco, all of it was shot in Florida! We certainly believe it, romantic is about the last term we'd use to ...

Full Circle
Dec 9, 2005

... 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 someday, ...

Hammam a mia!
Nov 17, 2007

... ;  In case you make it to Casablanca you must experience it for yourself: Les Bains Ziani 59, Rue Abou Rakrak Casablanca - Liberte www.hammamziani.ma For all of you who have never had a hammam experience...there's nothing like it at home.& ...

'Konichiwa' from Morocco!
Apr 29, 2006 (24 photos)

... , including several mosaics. Here I am working one of the reconstructed olive presses. All aboard! Next stop Casablanca... Whatever romantic notions people have of Casablanca are quickly thrown out the window (the movie "Casablanca" wasn't ...

Play it again Sam.
May 5, 2007 (7 photos)

... romance film from the early 1940's. In fact, I have never seen the movie, but at least I also knew that Casablanca is Morocco's biggest city, that it's name translates to white house in Spanish and that tourists who visit usually finds it more ...

Day 1 of Tour Casablanca
Aug 14, 2006 (20 photos)

I have loved my first 48 hours in Morocco... I have a feeling that this country will be everything I expect and more! At 6.30pm, I met my tour group that will be my 'family' for the next 14 days. I'm trying to keep an open mind as these tours attract ...

Epic Journey Madrid to Casablanca
Aug 13, 2006 (1 photos)

... 24 hours in Morocco are anything to go by, I am in for a real treat. The journey from Madrid to Casablanca was long, tiring but so rewarding, interesting and enjoyable. Travelling amongst the locals within Morocco was exhillerating... even though I ...

Life in Casablanca
Dec 29, 2001

Finally after all this time in London, I have been granted a 16 day pass and I can now be found in Morocco What I don't get is, within 2 hours of being here, I have been offered hash on numerous occasions, I have been taken for a ride and been ripped ...

Biggest Minaret in The World
Aug 28, 2006 (7 photos)

The area of Morocco that Casablanca is in has been conquered by many people over the years and even recently was rocked by suicide bombers. We had to go through Casablanca on our way out of the country and we had a 5 hour wait till our connecting bus so... ...

Casablanca
Sep 6, 2000

... plans. We decided to head to Spain again and the fly to the Island of Malta and then onto Italy. However I ate something in Casablanca that made me really Ill and ended up really sick on the overnight train to Tangier and also on the ferry back to Spain. ...

Casablanca
Jan 9, 2008 (4 photos)

Casablanca et sa fameuse mosquée Hassan II

adjusting to casa
Jul 23, 2006 (2 photos)

I have had 2 days now to settle into life in casablanca (the 'new york of morrocco'). Although I was expecting culture shock, it is nothing like i anticipated here- rather than cosmopolitan and exotic, it is tumble down dirty and smelly. the french ...

Back to Africa!!!!
Jan 16, 2007 (3 photos)

... Huegel, Seen, braune, gelbe, rote Erde, Straeucher, Buesche, Baeume... es hatte von allem etwas. War wundervoll. In Casablanca angekommen, legte ich mich erstmal ein bisschen in mein riesiges Bett um mich auszuruhen, bevor ich das pulsierende Nachtleben ...

Second Stop
Oct 11, 2005 (2 photos)

Our second stop in Morocco is cosmopolitan Casablanca. The city is completely different from where we were the day before. We check out the beach (though it's too cold to swim), and we visit the very impressive Hassan II mosque (3rd largest in the world).

From Casablanca to Meknès-The First Few Days
Nov 5, 2006 (7 photos)

... Mountains; relaxing at the seaside town of Essaouira; and finally spending a few days in Marrakech, Morocco's cosmopolitan epicenter. Before we left Casablanca, we made the essential stop at the Hassan II Mosque-the 3rd largest mosque in the world. ...

Round the World TOP TEN - Moroc
Jan 30, 2009

... . 4.  Food vendor picks Skippy up and shakes him - to see what falls out. 5.  Lord of the Flies moment in old Medina, Casablanca. 6.  Cockroach in taxi cab - Casablanca. 7.  Ibis Hotel in Casablanca is renamed Hotel NO - Can we get a non-smoking room?  NO.  ...

Casablanca
Nov 5, 2006

Casablanca

The touring begins!
Nov 18, 2006 (5 photos)

... ; After 4 or 5 hours driving (including an unscheduled stop when the bus overheated) we arrived in Casablanca at night.  This is Morocco's largest city and is very urbanised and industrial, a completely different city to everywhere else we went.& ...

Estamos en Marruecos :)
May 5, 2006

... sus caracteristicas y preciosas csitas blancas con puertas y ventanas en azul, luego otro dia mas en Fes y de vuelta a Casablanca a tomar un avion a Marrakech, donde estaremos 4 dias. Seguramente volvamos a escribir desde Marrakech. No podemos creer que ...

Africa! The Port City of Casablanca
Jun 7, 2006 (14 photos)

... Glenn was happy! After finding the internet from the previous days instructions, we then enjoyed a big seafood lunch, after all, Casablanca was a port city. We decided to do a self-walking tour of the city after lunch, passing some nice old buildings, ...

Another long day
Apr 3, 2007 (10 photos)

... it only took 3 hours. We were dropped off at the bus station and walked down the road to the train station. There was a train to casablanca at 1pm, which was only half an hour away so we decided to get this one. We got on it ten minutes before but we ...

En chemin
Nov 27, 2008 (3 photos)

... à Leslie, cette fabuleuse française qui m'a accueilli dans ces terres burkinabées. A 3h30 mon avion décolle, arrivé à Casablanca au Maroc à 7 heures du matin... où il faut encore changer de fuseau horaire... et d'avion!

Ma'a Salamah Moroc
Jan 30, 2009 (2 photos)

... in a sandstorm, which worked itself into a serious thunderstorm.  We took off for the airport early, since we had our fill of Casablanca.  But as a parting gift we took a taxi to the train station which had a cockroach for a mascot.  Lovely!  We hung out in ...

Arrivée à Casablanca
Apr 10, 2009

Casablanca

Casablanca
Jun 5, 2005 (10 photos)

... to make it worse it was too cold to swim.. after spending the last 2 weeks in high 30´s heat! We headed for Casablanca from there. Casablanca is basically a big, smelly, noisy, dirty city without much of the good that goes with that. It has the huge ...

Hassan II Mosque
Jan 16, 2006 (5 photos)

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Casablanca
May 29, 2006

I tried very hard to sleep. I really did. It was 7:30 AM when we arrived at the Casablanca Airport. The planes here do not hook up to gates, and so you have to go down the stairs from the door of the plane and make your way to the airport via shuttle ...

Casablanca
Apr 4, 2007

Not much to say here.  I just picked Mike up and headed to Marakesh. This is just for the map pin placement.