Chez Brahim
Travel Blogs from Essaouira
Groundhog bushcamping
... extra pages to be inserted into her passport, but the American embassy in Rabat does not do that - she had to apply to the American consulate in Casablanca. We drove all afternoon, and it started to rain heavily. We were on our way to Todra Gorge, but at Azrou had to stop as the road ahead was blocked by snow. We camped in sub-zero temperatures, and it rained heavily, with a strong, biting wind that night.
We put ...
Riding Camels along the beach
... have looked pretty naive. It was also amusing how they would tell you want they thought you wanted to hear. When we were looking at scarves 'they are hand-made, very good quality' - even though you could see they have been finished with a sewing machine. We would play along with them and let them think they had us fooled.
We wandered round the seaside and enjoyed a drink ...
Essaouira
After the drama of the night before it was quite nice to be leaving the city for a couple of days. We were to catch the bus to Essaouira, it is a beach side town about a 3 hour bus ride away. The only problem was we had purchased the tickets the night before and they were in my bag so we no longer had them. Hoping they would have some form of record of our purchase we headed along to the station to talk ...
Chilling Out
... rides. Essaouira was in some disrepair and not looking its best because of the streetworks and over the week we were there it was the temapraure was quite cool. So we did not see the town at its best. But this was our first visit to a Moroccan town and seeing the markets and tasting the local food was a great experience
Our french apartment owners took us on a day out to a resort about 30 mins south of Essaouira. We had afternoon drinks at a really ...
Essaouira and cold weather
... natural at the bottom of a sea than floating on top of it. The crews were busy tying up their nets and arranging hauling lines, so many that it was impossible for a visitor to traverse the harbor without stepping on or over them. I got the sense that this is a very hard working port town; the fishermen and port crews earn their pay the old fashioned way, by working ************g hours. I felt out of place being there; like I was in the way of their progress of providing a ...