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Essaouira Slideshow
Essaouira
Travel Blogs from Essaouira, Morocco
By the beautiful sea . . .
... - Midnight Dear Readers: Another fabulous day in Morocco! We are out the door at 8am, driving to the seaside port of Essaouira. Because of the recent rain, the passing scenery is green and gorgeous. We stop at a women's cooperative where they crush ...
Essaouira, Morocco
... than the local option, but we got there with A/C, and no stops to pick up random goat herders along the way. Essaouira (Ess-O-Where-A) is fairly un-tainted by the tourism industry, although we can certainly imagine that changing. This place is ...
Essaouira
Sorry for the delay in keeping you up to date on our travels. We haven't had much stable internet connection here in Africe so our post will be short and sweet. Here we are in Essouira, a fun beach city couple hours West of Marrakesh. We stopped ...
Day 12 - 3 January 2008
... buy but it is done so in a very discreet way. Then it was time for lunch so the hunt was on for a suitable restaurant. Essaouira harbour is full of wonderful stalls selling all kinds of fresh seafood and this would have been a great place to sit and eat ...
Morocco - days 8 to 12
... and while there helped made a fruit salad which we taste tested many times. It was good. Tuesday 12th + Wednesday 13th - Essaouira Tuesday we got to have a sleep in and most of us slept till about 10am, this was the first ...
Reflections on Morocco
... in the square. After two nights, however, we were ready to move on and chose a small coastal town called Essaouira as our final stop in Morocco. While the group had grown and shrunk at stages, 6 of us (Ed, Britta, Max, Carmen, British Mark, ...
Essaouira in the wind
This city is georgeous. It is such a mix of old European colonial, modern arabic Marocan, and traditional Berber (regional) ...
Day 11 - 2 January 2008
... pretty and the long, sandy beach with it's crashing waves is a favourite with surfers. Despite it's popularity with tourists, Essaouira still maintains a sense of conservatism. There are more veiled women here than in other cities and the streets don't ...
Essaouira in the sun
Essaouira is a beautiful city, but sometimes it's better on it's large beach, especially on sunny days like ...
Essaouira
... contemplate and actually quite doable. We perused the real estate windows last night. I can see steam from the rotating wheels in her head. Essaouira is a beach town that is/was part of the hippie trail. It is all white and looks a bit like what I think ...
One camel, two camel, red fish, blue fish
... sea and the slowly disintegrating "sand castle" fortress at the other end of the curved bay are cappuchino. Almost all of Essaouira sits inside the medina walls. The barrow boy who delivered us to our hotel seemed to delight in the tight, ...
Day 14 Essaouria or bust
... the most amazing fragrance I have ever experienced. Tweny miles further on however the true aroma of Morocco returned – sewage.. I skirted Agadir itself and drove around the modern University sector before climbing out up onto ...
Day 16 Travelling in my head
... certain time and I wasn’t even sure I would end up making it here.. I’m not sure I need to see any more of Morocco than I will see on my way back across to Nador. With a companion there is more pressure to see more for both sakes, but ...
Day 15 Q: Hey, you want grass?
... tent, but by late afternoon and a day’s exploring the Ryad drew me back in. £44 incl. breakfast is still expensive for Morocco, but a downright bargain compared to a 'Lenny Henry’ hotel in the UK. My present plans are a route back across the ...
Seaside retreat. and a good scrub
... ". I am getting pretty good with my french! After all of the molestation, I was officially relaxed and enjoyed the rest of the time in Essaouira wandering the beaches, having coffee and people watching. Holidays don't have to be adventure all the ...
Essaouira, Morocco, October 10 - 11, 2007
... now popular with artists, retirees, and well-off French people, as well as the hippies' backpacker successors like myself. Essaouira's breezy location and mix of rocky headlands and sandy beaches make it a favorite for surfers and wind surfers too. ...
Essaouira Seaport & Fish Market
Essaouira has a fascinating fishing port, not unlike the tanneries in Fez or various workshops in the souks of Moroccan cities where you can see men hard at work in traditional manual professions. Men here were busy hauling in fish catches, ...
Respite by the sea
We arrived in Eassouria after a bumpy, winding, jostling 3hour bus ride....thankfully with a.c. The countryside is dotted with farms and olive groves...very picturesque. Much of the landscape looks like AZ until you come over the rolling hills and ...
Surf City
I always say that if I lived in Morocco I'd want to live in Essaouira but I thinkI might have to take that back now. It's had a tourism boom in the last few years that's really changed it. At first I thought it was all for the better, making ...
Day 326 – 328 : Windy City
Due to some health complications Kevin was suffering from, we weren't as active in Essaouira as normal. Managing to pick up an S.T.D in Marrakech, without the fun bit (that is T.D. aka Travellers Diarrhoea), excessive time and distance from the hotel was ...
Schiziophrenic weather
... this one delivered whatever it was that I needed. Lovely food, lovely place, lovely, lovely, lovely. I'd go back to Essaouira because I loved the city, but I would stay longer simply to be able to eat at this restaurant. The afternoon involved ...
Sea breeze city, laid back attitude
Essaouira, population 69,000, is located on the Atlantic coast. It was nice for a change to have a nice ocean breeze cooling off the air. It actually would get cold enough for a sweatshirt jacket at night. The laid-back town was a ...
Food brings everyone together
... see where the day would take us. We slowly made our way to the beach. Much unlike the pace of Marrakech, nothing in Essaouira is hurried or rushed. Being a coastal city, it goes at a much slower pace. Most everyone is very carefree, ...
Inshallah - Ojala - God Willing
... and in general they would just give up because of the frustration of not being able to communicate. Hence, my interaction in Morocco, all that I learned was due to my relations with men. Nevertheless, the two strongest connections I had were with two ...
Die windige Stadt am Atlantik
Ach einer erneut sehr langen Busfahrt kamen wir im windigen Essaouira an. Der Anblick von Meer entlockte unseren australischen Mitreisenden Freudenrufe. Sie koennen halt nicht ohne einen Ozean vor der Haustuer ;-) Essa ist tatsaechlich so entspannt, wie ...
Chillin by the seaside
Arriving here by the sea feels great, and whats even better is we got a gorgeous double room in a family run riad, and the whole place to ourselves. There is internet here so we can catch up on a few things. Other than that we spent some time ...
Tourist time
A little bit strange to come from complete remoteness and no western faces to now there being entire bucket fulls of them. Its donned as a trendy city and was a little bit undiscovered according to the guidebook. again been 4 years out of date i think ...
