Riad Amial
Travel Blogs from Marrakech
Carne, carne, CARNE!! The food (and drink) blog
... suspicious of the elderly man who sat behind the bar of the restaurant we ate at, who seemed to be enjoying the Spanish soap opera that was blaring at eardrum-piercing volume on the TV in the corner a little too much. We quickly realised that his amusement was directly related to the multiple cups of brandy that he was helping himself to behind the bar. After we were served our desert of cake, he gave Michele a strange grin and then proceeded to stumble over and ...
Toubkal
... in the field of travel. It was launched in 2012 with the objective of taking adventurous visitors off the beaten track to experience the beauty and unique character of Morocco. Flexible, friendly, and focussed on your objectives and requirements, Toubkal traveling provides a complete service for all styles of journey around one of the Moroccan's most appealing travel destinations.
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Marrakech 2010
... your hands.
We arrive to Mezourga after 12 hours by bus. When we arrive, the bereber ( the people who lives in a desert ) lend us a camel for each one. Then, we and our camels start a route to dunes of the desert. Two hours later we arrive to haima's ( is a place in a desert like a big camping tent where the people eat and sleep ). Around midnight the berebers talked about histories of the desert wolfs and ...
From gondolas to camels
... to the stall to be polite and end up buying something they don't want...don't need....at ten times its' real value. We saw a National Geographic documentary in Hong Kong...big coincidence....a pommy made a documentary of Marrakesh market scammers....very interesting and compulsory viewing for anyone going there.....we knew about "guides" ....."helping you find places"....but the documentary had an undercover camera and showed how the "scammers" work in teams....we had been approached ...
It's the stuff Movies are made of.
... on the rocks. The waterfall was nice but compared to ones we'd seen in New Zealand it wasn't that impressive. We've come to realise on our travels how lucky we are with the New Zealand landscape. Often things that are considered impressive and beautiful by other tourists are just not as good as home.
After a pretty successful day out we headed back home. It was starting to rain but we needed to buy our ...