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Travel Blogs from Marakech, Morocco
Morocco 2.0
This is a top pick! The City Our long awaited return to Morocco finally arrived last weekend when we took a roundabout set of dirt cheap flights from Madeira to Lisbon, Lisbon to Madrid, then Madrid to Marrakesh. Marrakesh is home to a famous medina full of mad souqs and ...
The Real Morocco
This is a top pick! ... in it being a prime destination for tourists and it has become very touristy. Our guidebook describes Marrakech (population 970,000) as the "lodestone" of Central Morocco; the oasis was the finest many traders had ever seen. Although many of the ...
Finally a bit of chaos again...
This is a top pick! ... 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 spend a week discovering this famous North African city and its surroundings. Carolina ...
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This is a top pick! ... all that the english say, and are constantly repeated by the touts. Palais El Bahia? Average. No further elaboration required. Marrakech impresses as a genuine city, certainly not free of the exploitative blemishes that come with tourism, but not ...
Would you like some couscous with that couscous?
This is a top pick! ... does cool you down. But a cold can of Pepsi Max does the job just as well. Our final stop was in the town of Marrakech and it was there that my faith in Moroccan food was finally restored. The main square around sunset is a throng of activity, with ...
Fes and Marrakech
This is a top pick! ... . 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, ...
"Hey, my food still has a face!"
This is a top pick! ... , so after a few moments of awkward silence and stares, the guy gave in and reluctantly handed us our change. Only in Morocco! After a few days in Marrakech, we really needed to get away from the chaos. We took the bus a couple of hours to the sleepy ...
Skank hole market square
This is a top pick! Ok, this is a little entry just to chronicle my trip to marakesh.. the boat arrived in a small town called Safi where there is fuck all.. i was booked onto another granny bus trip to marrakesh, but this time i knew it wasn´t really feasable to do it on ...
The Spectacle...Djemma-el-Fna!
This is a top pick! ... one case down, only a few dozen to go! We spent the day yesterday riding the rails from Fes to Marrakech. Trains in Morocco are actually quite pleasant. The coaches are air-conditioned and situated with six seats per compartment. After our experience ...
Marrakech- Farewell to Morocco
This is a top pick! ... a bathroom that had seen its better days. We then took an 8 hour train ride across the plains and the desert to Marrakech, which fortunately seemed like a different world. It is much cleaner and paradoxically for a city on the edge of the desert, ...
I would like to begin by suggesting that ...
This is a top pick! ... have to hire a car.... 5 hours on the train (no driving this time) and I am in a taxi with two local Moroccan guys in Marrakech, one who has spent 6 years in the USA - so now I am set English chit chat and local chit chat to get good prices. Last night ...
MMMMMMMMM can I try some of that
This is a top pick! ... now top of my list. If I asked to go in the poll today, I could name many more places I would not return to. Marrakech, I love you !!! As a parting word, unbelievable as this might seem, I haven't had one drop of alcohol so far this journey, but ...
madness and mayhem
This is a top pick! ... weather cleared for a brilliant day and the high atlas mountains (biggest peak over 4500m!!) which rim the southwestern edge of Marrakech revealed their splendour for the first time. Spent a full day together wandering and eating. Really nice to catch up ...
Marrekesh - With Snake Charmers.
This is a top pick! Marrakesh is the nomad capital of the south full of medieval myths and mystery, vibrant and alive and even a bit daunting when you have just spent the night on a train (the Marrakesh express!!). Quite a pleasant train trip really though and the first ...
A Day in the Souks
This is a top pick! It was definitely beginning to feel like a vacation. We leisurely made our way down to breakfast the next morning, which consisted of yogurt, Moroccan crepe, tea, coffee, fresh baked chocolate croissants and a peach. Next we put on our tourist faces and ...
M&M
This is a top pick! ... arranged for a driver to pick me up at the airport. When I landed I expected to see a man with a "Miss Stacey Young Welcome to Marrakech." There was a man with a sign of the name of the Riad Mur Akush but it did not include my name. I was hesitant to go ...
First Beers in Morocco
This is a top pick! ... at once maybe the patrons freaked a bit. It was still an interesting night. We tried our hand at bargaining, but honestly Morocco is not the place to get cheap wares. Maybe Asia spoiled us because we found everything at the markets was pretty ridiculous ...
Reaching our Limits
This is a top pick! ... tolerable, mostly a light drizzle and shaded. Today, however, the sun was beating down on us as we trudged through all of Marrakech. First stop were the Marjorelle Gardens, a small tropical garden laid out in the inter-war period by a French artist and ...
The Marrakech Express
After battling the flooding out of Rissani and a bus change at Erfoud, we found ourselves stuck on leaky, noisy and crowded overnight bus to Marakech which ended up taking an extra 2 hours due to the rain. Not the best time we've ever had. And not only ...
Marakesz, czyli Miasto Boga
Jest późno, ale wolę napisać ta notkę przed pójściem spać bo przez noc trochę może z pamięci ulecieć. Wracając jeszcze do wczoraj. Na dworcu ...
Ostatni dzien w imperialnych miastach
Dzisiaj rano postanowiłem zostać jeszcze jedna noc w Marakeszu. Dało to możliwość spokojnego zobaczenia innych jego części niż ścisłe centrum. Rano wybraliśmy się z ...
Marrakech - Welcome to Hell
... remember arriving at the airport when it was still dark, feeling very seedy from the night before. The immigration section of Marrakech Airport is a disaster and we waited for over an hour to go through, which is apparently the average waiting time. It's ...
The Camel Experience
Hahaha... everyone laughed at Veeral. Poor guy was thrown off his camel. The camel slipped in the soft sand and tipped to one side... forcing him to jump off. I didnt see it happen. I was totally last in the 'camel train' - thats why i named my camel ...
Marrakech - The Authentic Tourist Friendly Morocco
... the room was just too big and my bed was too far from them to make a difference for me. One recurring theme about Marrakech is that they REALLY like to haggle and bargain here. I tried asking how much a plain t-shirt was with 2 colors of printing ...
Respect in the Form of a Sheep Head
Marrakech is the most cosmopolitan and developed city in Morocco. It is populated by the Moroccan elite, French retirees and celebrities. Marrakech has all of the usual suspects: a massive medina, a sprawling ville nouvelle and a luxurious palmerie ...
Marrakech - no I don't need a carpet...
... 3 hours and then let everyone back in at 4am. Like most services in Italy seems to be run by clowns. So arrived at Marrakech on Friday morning after zero sleep Thursday night at Pisa airport and a couple of hours sleep on the overnight train from Sicily ...
Marrakech - Hectic!
The medina (old town) of Marrakech is one of the least peaceful places we've been to in a while. Getting from A to B is a difficult but fun process of weaving between people, cats, donkey carts, horse-drawn carriages, cars and mopeds. Combined with the ...
Last days of Marrakesh
... sums up the Moroccan people, as we have gotten to know so well over the past month. Of course there are people in the states who would do this for you, but it is such a normal thing here in Morocco. I wanted to record this in my blog before I forgot ...