Nador, Morocco Travel Blogs

Great name...
Sep 25, 2006 (34 photos)

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 ...

Nador
Jan 23, 2006 (9 photos)

Nador is a small town in Northern Morocco that I learned to call home. The South of the city is nestled in the Rif Mountains and the North is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea.

Untouched by Tourists
Aug 29, 2006

Nador in Morocco borders Melilla in Spain. We got here so early in the morning that no one had checked out of their rooms yet and we had to wander, bleary-eyed from hotel to hotel trying to find an empty room. When we finally found one, we realized too ...

Overnight journey
Oct 8, 2008

... get our bikes and luggage. I don't sleep on buses, or trains or any kind of transport. So by the time we tipped up in Nador I was suffering from sleep deprivation big time. Even so, nothing would have induced me to stay there - it was a dump. So, we ...

Morocco
Aug 5, 2005 (19 photos)

This is my first time in Morocco and my first entry to travel pod. I'm flying Geophysical Surveys in the North as well as central Morocco. I was based in Nador and Er Rachittia but I got to do a little traveling as well.

Retour dans le désert / Back into the desert
Sep 14, 2005 (17 photos)

... starts surprisingly enough in Spain. At least, that's what I discover when I set foot in Melillia, a Spanish territory in Morocco. Outside the airport, Richard, one of the two geophysicists assigned to the project, takes care of Timothy, my copilot, and ...

Taza, why the heck did we come here for ?
Oct 16, 2006

Time to mention a real issue though out our stay in Morocco : the inept praises of Lonely Planet Morocco guide book authors who, more than once, prompted us to set off enthusiastically for destinations than would prove unbelievably disappointing upon ...

Arrive in Morocco
May 8, 2007

Ferry arrives in Nador

I'm in Africa! Isn't that weird?
Sep 17, 2004

After doing nothing at the beach I hopped on the overnight ferry to Melilla, a little Spanish enclave within Morocco. Getting on the ferry I saw a sign that said "no knives" and so I told the guard checking my ticket that I had a pocket knife. "Big or ...

Szeena Bzeff!!!
Jun 17, 2006 (23 photos)

... come back onto the carpet in the room. The moths congregated throughout the night (I have yet to see one screen in all Morocco) and a delicious course of two chickens, broth, and olives was next on the menu. Mohammed broke bread and laid it out for ...

The Hammam
Jun 18, 2006

Just a short note about using a public bath in Morocco...I think I've just about stretched my horizons as far as I care to (:....the Hammam works like this: You enter an outer room (of three) and there you disrobe down to your bottom undies, hang your ...

in fez
Feb 12, 2006 (4 photos)

to begin im tryping on a fench keyboard, so this is going to be a little rough getting around morocco is easy, the trains seem safe. take first class, it dosnt cost that much more. most of the ticket people speek enought english to get you where you ...

learn arabic
Sep 24, 2008

Arabic Alphabet Some letters have different spellings when they are placed at the beginning, middle or end of a word letter name end middle top phonetic Ç = alif =  a  È = ba = b Ê = ta = t Ë = = th tha it's pronnonce English as th Ì = ...

Retour...
Aug 20, 2005 (2 photos)

... faire quelques photos, on s'arrête à Taza pour manger et Flo, la pauvre est malade. On passe la plaine du Guercif. Arrivés à Nador, il y a 112650km au compteur. On fait tous les papiers pour le bateau, et on embarque. Après avoir posé les bagages, on va manger ...

fez
Dec 18, 2001

fez

Morocco
Dec 21, 2008

... our big backpacks down to the port to catch an 8 hour ferry to Melilla, A spanish province in Africa, right next to Morocco. I started wondering around the ship and came across a lounge area playing the Avalanche, Devils game and I couldn't believe it!! ...

Almeria-Nador
Apr 2, 2008

... for hjelpen, å kom oss på rom. Nå var vi lettet, kom oss over grensa og var litt nærmere sol, strender og surfing:) 22 juli Nador Vi våknet oppetter å ha hørt to timer på en gal hund, bønnerop klokka halv tre og diverse lyder i natten. Vi stod opp i ti tiden, ...

how to blendin in morocco
Feb 24, 2006

After being here a little over a month i've noticed a few things about how to blend in. I have seen both the regular people, students and even state dept and the US military people trying and failing to blend in and its been a good case study on what not ...