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Essaouira Slideshow
Essaouira
Travel Blogs from Essaouira, Morocco
To the Atlantic for some air
... then we saw the sea. The sun was well on the way to setting out in the Atlantic as we stopped at a mirador above Essaouira. A grand panorama of the town, its harbour and off-shore islands. Sunset over E as we descended to the seafront & the ...
BEACHING BUMMING BEFORE BLIGHTY!
We hadn't much hope for the holiday we had planned beside the beach when we rocked up in a cold Casablanca but the weather was looking up in Marrakech and made a massive improvement in Essouaira, where we headed after an outstanding International Film ...
A-maze-ing Essouira
Before we go to Essouira, we stopped in a small town to see Emily's freind, Josh. He had a great house at the top of a hill that overlooked a lot of fields. We watched the sunset on the top of his roof and then shared a nice dinner and joked around ...
Essaouira, nice old city on the beach
I liked it there. Nice old city with a Medina. Spent 2 days ...
Clementines for a smile
... far separated from the chaos of Marrakech and it seemed even a completely different world away from the main street of Essaouira's medina. Having thoroughly explored the backstreets and alleyways of the Medina, I grabbed a kilo of clementines and headed ...
Toothless oldies, fruits de mer and space cakes
... went on for some time. To save my companion from repetitive strain I had no choice but to feign sleep. For three hours. Essaouira is a coastal town north of Agadir, smaller and further from the airports and therefore with much fewer tourists. It is very ...
Essaouira
... , or shall I say ocean side... there also is an old part of the town, medina, with all sorts of tiny shops and cafes. and if you're tired of shopping you can always go and relax on the beach... Essaouira is one of the best spots fo surfers in ...
Road to the Ocean, Essaouiera and El Jadida
... , which was gorgeous albeit extremely windy! Pretty great day considering we had a long car ride from Marrakech. Plan is 1 night in Essaouira. Before bed L and i bought bus tickets for the bus up to El Jadida (chill coastal city near casablanca) for the ...
Camelback...
... to vast plains filled with rocks. We would have loved to go there but it is not meant to be this time. We are enjoying Essaouira just the same. We ended up finding an apartment at the last minute and it has been great to have some space and a ...
Beach
... . We did however manage to have a camel ride on the beach which was very nice even though two caretakers of the camels got in a fight arguing over us. It was a nice tranquil way to end the trip in Essaouira and I enjoyed my time in morocco over all. ...
Essaouira
Warten auf den Visatransporter. Einige fahren nochmal in die Stadt, ich bleibe am Strand und gehe ins Internetcafé, update mein Blog und schreibe E-Mails. Denn ab jetzt wird es wohl etwas spärlicher mit dem Internet werden. Also keine keine ...
Hangovers and drowned fish
Up early for breakfast at 7.30. Nancy was hungover, Robby and Lars had slept out under the stars and they had enough hot coals from our fire last night to start the breakfast fire straight away. Ruth and Hoff didn't make breakfast with Ruth looking ...
It's the end of Morocco...
... the coast back to Casablanca. Outside the kasbah Place Moulay Hassan Dean with olivesMichele with the olive manOlive press Just outside of Essaouira we encountered a small mountain of olives and made a u-turn to go check it out. The large pile laid in ...
Terrain changes and an easy afternoon.
Easy two and a half odd hour drive to Essaouira, after negotiating Marrakech's slightly mad traffic. All on big streets, which given the size of the Pajero, is all to the good. The flat plains and small outcrop hills of rock and dirt dominate along the ...
I can see myself living here
... shot here on the ramparts, as well as, Orson Welles’ Othello. According to Winston, the little Englishman I met on arrival, Essaouira and Tangier were the only two places in Africa where slaves were sold. The steel doors on the rampart used to ...
More mint tea and medinas
I spent yesterday starving as my stomach problems got worse. We got the CTM bus to Essaouira, where we were welcomed by touts wanting to take us to rooms. We succumbed because the room is in the area where we wanted to stay - at the far end of the medina, ...
Back on the atlantic coast
After 12 hours spent in a train, bus and taxi, I am eventually back on the atlantic coast in Essaouira, a laid back city that has a lot of good food to offer. Happy to escape the hectic atmosphere of Fes, which was a fantastic place but, still, such a ...
Kickin Chicken
Had not quite expected the chicken to be quite so fresh that we were getting for our tagine but it was almost like one of those asian restaurants where you get to stare your fish in the eye before some chef plucks it from the tank and it soon emerges on ...
Ocean views and high winds
Hotel Al-Abboussas Room 2 & 7 Pretty pretty pretty. Great shopping and food and coffee. Read ...
A tour and a grumpy tummy
Woken about 1 am with diarrhoea and nausea that passed after I threw up. Don't know if it was a masto thing or not, but Kerrie told me later in the day that she had been ill too. As a result of my night time activities, I didn’t have much ...
Essouira
Only a couple of hours drive through farmland from Marrakech was the coastal fishing town of Essouira. What a change from the cities of Fes and Marrakech. It was calm and inviting and Mum and Dad had treated us and we were booked into the ...
Essaouira/the Jimi Hendrix experience/naughty boys
... each, and made our way to the bus stations. After much more hassle with competing bus companies, we finally headed for Essaouira. This town was also surrounded by old city walls and had narrow winding streets, but also had some beautiful little squares ...
Welcome to the McManus Family - Pick up your Fork!
... . Each time we had looked to buy things as we went, Issam assured us that the best price and quality would be in Essaouira. We were eager to see! First we went to the Artists “village” – a place sponsored by the ...
Sounds of Africa...
After settleing in to or new home...shower and off we go...direction is the heart of the city where all the fun is happening...even in the dark you get so many selling offers that you simply don't have enough "no thnx" words to say out... we are having ...
Bestest night train in all of Morocco
we waved bye bye to lovely ess, hopped a bus to marrakesh (where we walked for many km's on an almost-wild goosechase to find email) and caught a very pleasantly clean and comfy sleeper night train back up to tangier. there we said our sisterly ...