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Morocco Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Morocco, Morocco
Land of the Berbers
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Morocco Norte
This is a top pick! ... we didn't recognize it immediately, in hindsight it was clearly a watershed moment in the transition from Southern Morocco and its predominantly Berber culture, to Northern Morocco and its predominantly leering at your wallet culture. Leering through a ...
Surf Camp Confidential
This is a top pick! ... with the modern wonders of VISA and Mastercard). The ATM thing being the most surprising, since in most other places in Morocco ATMs are as ubiquitous as supremely average chicken skewers or taxi drivers with toques and moustaches. The fact that they ...
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 ...
Dramatic Cliffs
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Deserts and Kasbahs
This is a top pick! ... 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, ...
The Real Morocco
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Finally a bit of chaos again...
This is a top pick! 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 ...
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This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
The Tour Begins
This is a top pick! ... ", 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 ...
The Lovely Janet Guide to Mirleft
This is a top pick! ... 180 degrees and aim for the opposite end to the one you are currently occupying. Lying on the Beach in Very Little Clothing Morocco is a Muslim country sooo that's not really on around here. Fishermen on the Cliffs The very portrait of serenity as they ...
Would you like some couscous with that couscous?
This is a top pick! ... I am at work. But there is also another reason. I like to go somewhere with as few preconceptions as possible. Unfortunately for Morocco, I went there expecting one thing and getting something very different. When we landed in Morocco, I was expecting a ...
Fes (the city...not the hat)
This is a top pick! ... 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. ...
Welcome to Morocco!
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Peaceful Paradise
This is a top pick! ... window (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 ...
Beach chill out...Moroccan Style
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Roman ruins...in Morocco
This is a top pick! ... 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; ...
Moving through Morocco
This is a top pick! ... , 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 ...
To Tangier, formerly known as City of Pedophilia
This is a top pick! ... and relaxed, with a small, centrally-located and picturesque casbah, which we, of course, rocked. Our last stop before leaving Morocco was a night in Tangier, a city known for many years as a kind of "anything goes" naughtiness. It boasted a huge ...
how not to see Marrakech
This is a top pick! ... balsam. 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 ...
Wake up in Europe, to sleep in Africa.
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
In the Dextrous Hands of a Gentle Primate
This is a top pick! After Skoura we made our way up the road to the Dades Gorge, one of the three most important gorges in my mind, along with the nearby Todra Gorge, which we had visited back in 2004, and the immortal Gorge "The Animal" Steele. We sat jammed into a large ...
Shish? Shish?
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Full Circle
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Casablanca and Closing Comments on Morocco
This is a top pick! ... 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. ...
'Konichiwa' from Morocco!
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Sun, Sand and the Desert
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Great name...
This is a top pick! 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 ...
The legendary Sahara...
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Roaming Morocco
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...