Hotel Touring Casablanca

Rue Allal ben Abdallah Casablanca, Morocco

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11hrs Mohammed V airport Casablanca

A travel blog entry by huntersam

No breakfast this morning, just a banana.
We wait in the lobby for our 6:45am airport transfer, but have to hail a taxi at 7:00am
when it doesn't appear. Saved us 40 Dirham.
It's a 1/2 hr flight to Casablanca, arriving about 9:20am and then we have to kill time in the airport until our 8:10pm flight to Abu Dhabi. Thank goodness our main luggage went straight through. We kill time wandering around the airport, eating and on ...

Casablanca

A travel blog entry by lyncraven

... Rue Chaouia, the 1922 Hotel Translantique looked rally impressive, as did a number of other colonial buildings in the area.

This city, slowly waking up at 10.30am, became prettier with more upward glances, altho' the Hotel Lincoln (1916), was a crumbling shell with a honeycomb of scaffolding surrounding it, suggesting that it's being resoted to its previous art-deco former glory at last. Boulevard Mohammed V restored my faith in the ...

Casablanca In Less Than 24 Hours

A travel blog entry by mish_brendan

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... the Hassan II Mosque. This is one of only two mosques non-Muslims are allowed to visit in Morocco. As we arrived about half an hour before the next tour was due to start we were able to wander around the mosque’s exterior during which time we gained an appreciation for its size. This mosque is the third biggest in the world and the biggest outside of Saudi Arabia. The minaret stands at 200 metres making it the highest building in Morocco. At night ...

Play it again Sam

A travel blog entry by markanthonylow

... works as a chat up technique. Women are not seen much around the areas, a few work in cafes and restarants but they definatley take more of a hidden role in the society. Morocco is supposed to be one of the most liberal of the Arabic influenced countries yet the divide between men and women is vast. Its quite disturbing to see it quite so much alongside how little respect they have for western women. I think it would be extremely testing for solo women travellers in these parts.
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Casa and a run-in with The Law

A travel blog entry by ebmeyer

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... weekend, so copious details are coming.

Anyway, the mosque tour concluded and as we walked back across the enormous plaza to the street, we were talking about the call to prayer. Just then, over our heads, what do we hear but "ALLAHHHHHHHU AKBAR! *pause* ALLAHHHHHHHU AKBAR!" I dove into my purse to grab my .mp3 recorder so you could hear a little bit of it. You can also imagine how hearing this in the distance can be mistaken for ...