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Errachidia Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Errachidia, Morocco
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Dinner with our friend's family.
... a fantastic way to finish a meal by the way, the oranges are so refreshing! We stay and talk for about a hour after dinner about Morocco, art and Canada and feel very welcome in their home. It was a fantastic night! The family gives us a little drum to ...
An amazing birthday
... by all of the people in the area but each family tends a certain part. Beautiful! After that unbelievable lunch, we headed off to Errachidia and the hotel there. The hotel was very nice, and Roger tried to go for a swim in the pool but it was ...
Attack of the "Barbary Ips"
... off on a daylong drive to the Sahara Desert in the south. We spent a lot of time on our trusty van that ferried us around Morocco. We have a practiced knack of falling asleep once we are in motion in any vehicle. Since we were on the road a lot, we ...
Drive into the Atlas mountains and dinner
Another day trip, great scenery and more great people and fantastic food. This day was sort of by accident which is the best part I ...
Settling in
... a man who talked to us about his culture, he is one of the Berbers. The Berbers are the original inhabitants of Morocco and have inhabited North Africa since Neolithic times. About 70% of Moroccans are Berber descendants, some Berbers are still ...
Rainy Day - Gallery and Museum Trip to Tinjdad
Well, the weather outside is frightful! So the crew decided to get out of the hotel and head east! The goal - Tinjdad, to see springs in the desert and to visit a gallery that we've heard about from the owner when he helped me and my co-worker find the ...
More around town and dinner with our friend!
... ! This is Africa! The drums, the soul the heart of Africa! I took some video, that you cannot so much see as hear, but that is what is important. I feel today, that I have now seen the real Morocco, and I hope to see more. Insha'allah (God ...
Festival de dates
... '. Rapidement nous nous mettons d'accord avec les responsables de l'aéroport ou garer les avions, ou ranger notre équipement, etc... Errachidia est une petite ville perdue au sud-est de l'Atlas dans un oasis. Contrairement à toutes les autres villes ...
More in Er Rachidia
I've now had a chance to really get out a little and explore the city more. It's absolutely amazing and beautiful. The scenery, the pale terracotta of the buildings with the mint green window frames and doors. The buildings are all beautiful. My ...
Thats another fine mess you've got me into Stanley
It is 1am and I awake as all the lights in the bus are switched on. Not too dissimilar from staying in hospital really...takes you hours to get to sleep then you are woken at crack of dawn just when everyone has finally started snoring. Anyway, it ...
New Time (aka Noo time)
Dad has come up with an idea of moving our clocks two hours forward, so we get more daylight time. In other words, go to bed incredibly early and wake up at some ridiculous hour just before sunrise. So after an early start, we headed south through the ...
My first day in Er Rachidia
... by the beauty of the landscape. The views are amazing and I can't wait to further explore this city. All the books about Morocco call Er-Rachidia the boring city that makes a great rest stop on any journey through the country. This might be the case ...
African CD
The son of the campsite owner, Mohammad, was very friendly and keen to talk to us. He invited us into his fathers house/shop for Berber tea, we accepted the offer although none of us were looking forward to forcing down the overly sweet tea. We were ...
Todra Gorge to Aremd
... the Kasbah before we set out to our next Berber stopover which took us over the Tizi n Tichka pass, the highest in Morocco at 2260m a.s.l. Aremd is a little village tucked away in the high Atlas mountains. Daypacks were once again packed for our ...
Exploring - The Blue Source
... for our taco dinner tonight. One of the crew was recently up in Melilla (a town in Spain which is located just North of Morocco) and brought back some taco shells from the more "North American" stores there. All in all I had a great day and we plan ...
Bullshit Artists Guides In The Desert
... killer headache and i have given her some of Dons panadiene forte. Ramadan is a shocker, there is absolutely no alcohol available in Morocco unless we go to a ritzy hotel which we dont want to do. There is no cold beer and life without the pleasure ...
Berber Central - Goulmima
... can style (4 squished in the back & 2 in the front) of another grand taxi, we experienced our first downpour in Morocco. We decided to stay a night in Goulmima to check out the town said to be the centre of Berber culture... but it felt like ...
Traversée de l'atlas
Je laisse le paysage alpin d'Azrou pour filer dans des étendues plus désertiques. Etape à Errachidia, dans une auberge sympa mais le PC sur lequel je me conencte est une véritable antiquité... demain direction ...
Errachidia to Meknes
... flatbread similar to a pita filled with spices and diced onions. It was tasty! The bus from Errachidia to Meknes was called a normal bus. That is, it was the local run and made many ...
Ziz Gorge, Morocco, October 4, 2007
... and group spokesperson insisted. Gee, these kids know how to drive a really hard bargain. They sure teach 'em young in Morocco. Since everyone seems to want money to have a photo taken, I began looking at people and developing a system in my ...
The Oasis Valley of Dades Gorge
Early in the morning we set off towards Msemir and the piste to Tamtattouchte but one of our land rovers broke down and, our plans changed, we retraced our route to Boumalne Dades and then on to Tinghir where we spent the night in a wonderful converted ...
HAMID PUTS A RING ON HADEEJAH'S FINGER!
When I called to "The Girl I'd Tried to Kiss in Morocco," she hung up the phone. However, "The Girl I'd Tried to Kiss in Barcelona" recently emailed me. She wished me a wonderful journey, and she said there was something ...
Azrou - Er Rachidia
... besorgen auf dem Markt die Zutaten für Abendessen und Fruehstueck, bevor wir uns mit einem Chickendoener stärken. Auf der Weiterfahrt nach Errachidia treten die Berge mehr und mehr zurück, je näher wir der Wüste kommen. Zum ersten mal kochen wir im ...
The desert
I just know that it was somewhere close to Erfoud. After Erfoud where we spend the night we took 3 different cars to get to a really nice hotel in the desert. From the hotel we took camels for a ride and spend the night in the ...
"Bon-bon?"
Was what the French tourist/biker said to me as I jogged past him this morning. "Whaaa?" was my brains initial reaction. "Why does he want to give me a bon-bon?" Then I looked down. Greeting my line of vision were my stained jogging pants, and a hoodie ...
Verso il deserto
Notte a Meski vicino a Errachidia. in ca,peggio affollato da marocchini in vacanza. giornata passata a visitare le gole del todra cercando di scrollarsi di dosso un autostoppista un po' ...
Route spectaculaire
Salut tout le monde Hier, il fesait une pleine lune, Le désert bien visible, étais accompagné des chant mélodieux des dromadaires. Le son des dromadaire ressemble terriblement a un estomac vide mais amplifier par 1000. Argrouuurachetrhcoooua aoua, ...
Van al dat zand naar het blauwe water en de palmen
Na Merzouga verlaten te hebben, rijden we richting Meski, bekend om zijn 'Sources blues'. Dit zijn een aantal natuurlijke bronnen in de vallei van de Ziz, waarrond de gemeenschap een zwembad gegraven heeft. Een idyllische zwemvijver, maar ijskoud. ...
Ziz Valley
The icicles on the tent gave away last night's temperature. It was freezing! I got up at sun rise to start the fire and get warm. Jareb and I then went on a two hour walk around the lake where we had camped next to. It was a lovely, serene walk. We ...
A Year In Morocco
... breath, the bird looked me right in the face. I slowly opened the window, and it flew out. Then I remembered that in Morocco, a bird flying into your house is considered a very lucky omen. It's finally warming up in my site which I am ...
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