Riad Malika Marrakech

... After a stressful spell though the buzz of Marrakech makes me appreciate all we have experienced and everything us Westerners have even more. Morocco is more amazing than i remembered with its incredible colours, culture and continuous backdrop of distant mountain ranges.

Reality beckons as we are back by Chrimbo but for now we are losing ourselves in all sorts of surreal and out-standing cinema in the sunny but still cold capital...

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... som glider runt i en slags rockar med stor luva som kallas jellaba. Allra finast är de män som matchar denna med en fez på huvudet, men solglajjer är också en poppis acessoar. Det har varit otroligt mycket intryck under dagen så nu vilar vi med en kopp marockanskt te på terrassen och laddar för att ikväll gå ner till det stora torget, Djemaa el-Fna, som är stället där allt händer kvällstid.

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... and left to have your own adventure. Side trips can be taken but they aren’t always organized by the driver. The road conditions vary from paved, dirt, mud, and everything in the middle. Sometimes you wonder how it is physically possible to make it through the narrow passengers that our driver navigates or the streets full of people and parked cars. It puts Austin Powers to shame. But there is really no other way to see Africa, at least for me.

... had expected rain in Africa. The rain continued all through the night and into the next day, leaving it less then appealing to venture into town.

On the third and last day in Marrakech the few of us who hadn’t been into the city finally got our chance. With the sun shining high in the sky we piled into the minibus and headed for the city center. The whole city is truly vibrant with horse drawn carriages lining the streets, snake charmers charming their vipers and ...

... only married to Nassima's brother last year. "I'm a new one!" she told me, smiling. We talked about marriage, and she said it is totally awesome, and she's completely in love with her husband. She said that they were family friends and didn't know each other very well before getting married. It wasn't an arranged marriage, but she told me that love comes after marriage, and then it keeps coming. I loved that! We also talked about babies, and how much we both want them, which I thought ...

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Breakfast at the riad is served in the courtyard – a delicious combination of breads, traditional Moroccan pancakes and jam, alongside freshly squeezed orange juice, very nice!

We have a leisurely breakfast and then its time to negotiate the souks – this time I'm ready for the ambush of the various means of transport and become adept to crossing any roads a few steps at a time weaving between the obstacles. We are staying beyond the souks, this particular ...

... quickly she added - "That don't impress me much!" It was Canadian country singer Shania Twain bleating her ol' heart out, on Moroccan radio! On a similar note, Celine Dionne is very popular on the mostly French language station, and her songs were played in both English and French. Her CD's are sold in the souqs too. Gawd, this lady seems to be everywhere... and here I thought I had escaped from her dominance on Canadian radio! I Got the Boot! In the ...

Most journeys are made with an intent to discover, to explore. Our travels to Morocco began to break a myth - that Africa was jungles, tribes and nothing more. And that's how we discovered a land that has the winds of 2 seas, the cultures of 3 continents and the other side of African lore. We (to introduce ourselves - me, Vikramaditya Maity, and my wife, Malini Roy-Maity) flew out from Bahrain just as the festivities of Eid were starting to ...