Riad Akka Marrakech

... vous séduira par son atmosphère reposante.


20 chambres vous accueillent dans un univers de confort propre aux charmes de l'Orient. Soucieux de votre bien-être, l'ensemble du personnel mettra tout en oeuvre pour vous garantie un séjour inoubliable.

... late the first day. A painstakingly long delay
before we even got to the Taxi, enormous Immigration and Customs queues, as
well as Nick exacerbating the delay by stopping every 5 metres to take photos.
The taxi driver patiently waited for us, and I impatiently paced to and fro.

We finally
arrived in the Medina, and were met by a local guy and his cart. He took our bags
before I even had a chance to say no, and we were following him through the
maze to ...

From the fun flats of Marrakech...we made our way to the High Atlas mountains for well...mountains of magnificent hiking and views.

Jebel Toubkal stands at 4200m above sea level and at that is the highest most point in northern Africa and also a bit of a mission! We made it up the mighty mountain in a few days and did some sleeping, sun burning and Scrabble in there as well. An absolutely incredible adventure!

Back down and all set to embark on a road trip to Fez!

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... reminds me of India and all the experiences i had there that live on in my mind but it is an odd amalgamation of the western and traditional. The main square is a magical place where all is alive by night and oh so chilled and interesting in the day.

We did a couple of days exploration of all it had to offer and then onwards AND upwards...

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... English) have lived in this splendid house 3 years – since he retired. He’d come here as a visitor for 30 years before finally taking the plunge and buying the "riad" (a high-quality B+B). His wife decorated the home exquisitely. I kept looking at the unheated pool…..Did I say it was hot?

At 2:30, the first 'event’ I’d pre-booked began: our tour of the city with our guide, Mageet. It ...

Ah, Marrakech. What can I say about it? This city will have a home in my heart forever. I will never, ever forget it or the wonderful people I met there...

So after a horribly long night on the floor of Frankfurt Hahn airport, I crankily rolled off the plane and into the customs and immigration line. I hand the man my passport.

"You come with me", he says.

Great.

He led me off and made me fill out a second ...

... ask if you may take a picture, the answer is almost certainly no. If you get a yes, it is because you've asked if they'd mind. If you ask why, they will tell you, it is against their religion. This is hard to argue against. However, one thing would easily change everything: Lots of people will ask for money if you want to take a picture. Maybe I just misunderstood, did they say it's the prophet or the profit that matters?

... set for a new movie. Last night we dropped off our Belgian friends who got in a full screaming match with our guide, it was pretty funny actually. He then tried to confide in me that the girls called him a slave, highly unlikely buddy. Anyway, he took the two of us to a Diffa Fantasia last night, which is basically a typical Moroccan horseshow: It was interesting, but a ...

... para o deserto...horas em cima do dromedário é um
calvário....nem é pelo calor, nem pelo vento, nem pela areia e somente
mesmo pelo nosso coccix....MEU DEUS!!!
Quando desci da besta nem consegui segurar as pernas, tremiam pareciam varas verdes.
Chegamos
a umas das maiores dunas do Erg Chebbi 250 mt de areia....podem pensar
o Monte Crasto tem 125 mt, mas é granito, areia 250 mt são 5 km...dois
passos para frente um passo para trás, é muito ...

While traveling, I did the old fashioned, pen and paper journal thing. Which is why it's taking me so long to update. Typing up what I've already written is a bit time consuming, for a girl who failed typing class in the 6th grade. (Only class I have ever failed, and yet somehow my teacher let me slip through and not re-take it...) But anyway: 5 November So far, I've made it onto the Gatwick Express. Right now I'm listening to the recorded message welcoming me aboard. It's relief ...