Atlas Essaouira & Spa

L'avons-nous bien descendue... la route de Rabat à El Jadida! Forts d'ignorer l'autoroute et la mosquée Hassan II de Casablanca, et grâce aux aides conjuguées du GPS Garmin (tm) et du GPS Marocain ( plus simple d'utilisation malgré les flaques d'eau qui s'obstinent à mettre de la distance entre nous et les passants très serviables qui nous dispe...

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Caught early bus to Essaouira and checked into Essaouira Hostel. Cheap and basic but fun hostel and a good place to chill and relax if you want to kill a few days. Bizbiz who runs the place is pretty cool (if a little crazy).

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17th Essouria

So we arrived in Essouria about an hour after night fall. We drove along the beachfront road trying to find our campsite which was supposed to be 3km south of town, the directions we had were pretty good but in the dark it didn't really make sense. So I asked a local in my rubbish French where it was, she pointed us back do...

We hadn't much hope for the holiday we had planned beside the beach when we rocked up in a cold Casablanca but the weather was looking up in Marrakech and made a massive improvement in Essouaira, where we headed after an outstanding International Film Fest. We found a cheap and cheerful hotel-as recommended in the Lonely Planet I picked up befor...

A visit to the coastal city of Essouquira was a very nice change for all of us after having experienced countless medina's for the previous weeks. A quiet town which catered to tourists on their holidays was relaxing and beautiful. The mixture of old with modern was clear on the beaches when you sat and watched tourist ride camels down the sandy...

Essaouira is a city on the coast of Morocco that is a bit of a hippy hangout. Jimi Hendrix allegedly lived here briefly. It is a nice, relaxed place, fortified by the Portugese and sporting some impressive ramparts. The gulls here are very noisy and squawk all night.

My time here was relatively uneventful with my group - if I have one com...

Well it was a bit of a struggle this morning -- the first one in quite a while! I still made it downstairs just after 9 and found that half the group were down there too. After brekky I did a bit of hand washing then headed out to do a few jobs - first the internet then shopping! I walked past a blanket place and checked out a few pillow case co...

I had a very different experience of Morocco today, or maybe I should say Moroccan men. I have spent very little time alone on this trip, but today Dad and I went our own way. I started by wandering the streets and attempting to do a bit of shopping. As usual men would call, trying to get my attention to go into their shop, I'd just politely ack...

May 13th - Rest Day, Erg Chebbi Wake up and crane our heads out the window to a palmed oasis, 100 metres from the front of the hotel. A solitary 120 Metre High Sand Dune off in the near distance is the background, and our target after breakfast for a hike. The Algerian border is only 25 kms away, and from the top of the dune we are told you can ...

With its whitewashed walls and Santorini blue shutters Essaouira seems to shimmer on the coast like a displaced desert mirage. Only the inland medina walls, the ramparts dropping to the sea and the slowly disintegrating "sand castle" fortress at the other end of the curved bay are cappuchino. Almost all of Essaouira sits inside the medina walls....