Country Info
- Rabat
- Capital
- Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
- Currency
- 30,645,305
- Population
- MA
- Country Code
Rabat Slideshow
Rabat
Travel Blogs from Rabat, Morocco
Off to the Canaries
Bridget writes We have been back in Morocco for just over a week and the time has flown by. We have had a couple of days touring the north staying in Chefchaouen, a lovely town where the buildings are painted blue. We then collected Steve, our new crew ...
Rabat
It was a relatively short and painless drive into Morocco's capital city of Rabat - around 2 hours so we left after lunch and headed for camp - which consisted of a forested area about 10 minutes drive outside of the city. This was the first real bush ...
On The Road To Morocco
... guys surfing. They were whistling and yelling at us as we surfed the waves in too. It was not something we had associated with Morocco although we knew they surfed here, it was still a surprise. The Marina at Rabat is brand new and just across the ...
Capital of sights
... the train it was amazing you could leave the hustle and bustle of Casablanca and reach quite, palm-tree lined boulevards of Rabat, Morocco's administrative and political capital. The quietness of the city was welcome as my senses were on overload as ...
Flag Waving Rabat
Rabat is pretty cool. The one harsh thing about some other spots in Morocco is being hassled by souk owners. Here, you can walk though the Medina and be ignored which is a bloody fantastic thing. We took the loser cruiser up from Essaouira through ...
Rabat the Capital
... swing here and it's not easy remembering to try and limit the amount of eating and drinking of anything in public. Here in Morocco as a tourist I shouldn't offend anyone by doing so, unlike in Dubai. But I feel slightly self-conscious doing so. Back at ...
Morocco
A year and a half in Rabat, Capital city of Morocco. Good memories; the candy store near the house; my tortoise; our dog, that my father brought back from the desert; walks in the Sahara The souk: the most reminiscent sensations surge when I come ...
Ceramics Ceramics and more Ceramics
Fez is a rather large city, a bit of a shock to the system after spending so long in such beautiful natural surrounds. Two things are a must during a visit to the town of Fez. A visit to a ceramics factory is high on the list, which puts things in a ...
Into Morocco
... stamped, and watching people trying to swim into the country, being hawled out by armed guards and sent back, we head through the small town of Chefchouen and bush camp the night before heading to Rabat and Sale for Richie to get some paper work ...
The quest for Visa's
... in the nick of time) we found the tourist office. The only problem being that this was the national tourist office for Morocco, nobody had had information of any sort. After a short while of using incredibly bad French we found out the tourist ...
African Arrival
... we tried suddenly worked. But by 11am we were in our little Renault and programming trusty Tom to take us to Rabat, Morocco’s capital city. Before leaving Spain I had bought the Moroccan maps for Tom, which apparently have 54% coverage ...
Casablanca - Rabat - Meknes
... fit comfortably inside it! We squeezed back into our taxi's to get to the train station - there are two types of taxi's in Morocco - the 'petit taxi' which is for short trips, only 3 people allowed - or the ones we were taking 'grande taxis'. This is ...
RABAT
... de Marruecos, que queda alrededor de unos 60 km, pero nuestro amigo Omar (guia-chofer) le costaba mucho pisar el acelerador y por fin despues de 2 horas llegamos a Rabat, la ciudad "imperial" por ser ahi donde se encuentra la residencia del rey Mohamed ...
Hassan II mosque in Casablanca the on to Rabat
... in 1992, to the tune of something like $8 billion - staggering, especially since there are so many poor people etc in Morocco and you have to wonder about priorities....it is the first activity with the Explorer group and they seem like an awesome ...
Relaxing in Morocco
... done. We have not taken a train since our arrival in Africa and it looks like it should be quite fun. Apparently the trains in Morocco are quite modern and it should be an interesting experience. We then walked down to the Gate of the Winds. It is a gate ...
Moroocco Trip Day 2 - 24 Dec 2007
... on firm soil, can contemplate God's sky and ocean." This and the Tin Mal mosque in the High Atlas are the only two mosques in Morocco open to non Muslims. Our local guide escorted us inside and requested we remove our shoes. . ...
Tour Hassan & Mohammed V Mausoleum in Rabat
... The current king, Mohammed VI has been a very pro-Western and modernizing influence on the country and has contributed to making Morocco one of America's strongest allies in the Arab world. The Moroccan royal family also holds a special place in my ...
Souks and Casbashs
... old started to chat to me. Through broken english and french we chatted about where I was from and where I would be visiting in Morocco. Then to my surprise, he offered to sell me drugs. He had hashish, marijuana and opium. I didn't think I heard ...
Rabat, Morocco, October 1, 2007
Rabat is the current capital of Morocco and is nice in a planned, organized elegance in the way such capital cities as Washington, Ottawa, Canberra, Wellington, and Brasilia that are government centers rather than the country's dominant commercial capital ...
Rabat
Drove down the coast from Tangier Asilah Larache Kenitra Old town of Sale across the river from ...
Here's Looking at you, Kid!
... city - but it was not our final destination for the day. Regrettably, we had to board the bus again and head for Rabat - the capital of Morocco and our last night in North Africa. We arrived in Rabat in the mid afternoon, but were denied entry to the ...
National Library!!
... very ghetto-ish, and I will take pics of it later. But this morning we got a quick tour of the National Library of Morocco!! I was like a kid in a candy store: The person who gave us a tour only spoke French, but luckily a rotarian was with ...
Headin' to FES!!
Quick entry before we head out for this weekend's adventure in Fes. My voice is still pretty squeaky, but now that I'm well enough to go back to my placement, I haven't had as much time to lay around and update my blog! We are ...
Rabat--The First Day
... V who is considered to be the father of Moroccan independence. It is beautiful and considered the Taj Mahal of Morocco. Finally, it wasd time for lunch and we at at a fish restaurant located right on the Atlantic beach. We walked ...
An Urban Sample
... was incredibly eye opening for me, and I think for just about everyone. We each gave him questions that we had about Morocco, and then he went through almost every question and explained things so clearly it was completely understandable to me. He talked ...
Day 58 - A mental put a bag of ice on me
We decided to take a day off in the hostel in an attempt to get our heads together. So we had a lie in, played some pro evo on this guys laptop, and got to pick up a tortoise which we found just outside the hostel. Cars dont stop at zebra crossings here ...
Morocco!!!!!
... afloat. There, we also met with professor Ali Azeriah who gave us a great perspective on cultural diversity in Muslim Morocco. Then it was on to Rabat via a three-hour bus ride which included a stop in Asilah where we met Mohammed (could be anyone in ...
Rabat
We arrive to Rabat around 4pm, that is heat time in Morocco. We planed to visit Rabat only because we need next day morning go to Mauritanian embassy to buy visa. In case of spending night in Rabat we decide to find hotel close to train station. We ...