Bled Al Fassia Marrakech

Situé en plein coeur de la médina, à quelques pas du port et de la plage, le Riad Chakir Mogador est le lieu privilégié de votre escale à Essaouira.


Cette maison d'hôtes, entièrement restaurée dans le pur respect des traditions et de l'architecture ...

... nice though. I was tired, and frustrated from the
days proceedings, and opted to stay inside the hotel while Milli and Nick
walked around and then when it started storming Milli and I had a early night.

We woke pretty
early and went for a wander, then back to the hotel for a breakfast of jam,
bread, spongy pancake thingies and coffee. Milli and Nick wanted to see some
sights, all I wanted to do was walk around the souqs so we split up for the
day.

Marrakech, Morocco shanemilli

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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... magnificent mazes of Marakesh. After the events of my manic few months back in Britain, i was up for a few days of down time but the city soon sucked me in.

Between BIG sleeps and snuggles with the resident cats, camp land lord and lovely courtyard at our hotel, we wound our way amongst the amazing stalls, scenery and scents of an awesome place.

It ...

... the building, down the stairs into the 40+C heat, and into the doors. Now, you'd think at one's first exposure to a new country, the host would want to be open-armed….first, you go through a body heat detector. OK I guess. I checked the screens to see if this was the latest scanner where operators could see through your gaunchies but, no, just heat patches. No alarm sounds….another jet pulls up. A policeman comes ...

... hiding from the sun in our riad, we took a
taxi to our next place of accommodation: a hotel located fifteen miles
south of the medina. As we moved further from the city, wagons selling
watermelons (or the more modest stalls of cactus fruit), began to
disappear as ochre wastelands took over. Our “grand taxi”; a Mercedes,
seemed completely out of place as it strove over a dirt track swollen
with hills and dropping with ...

... be an incredible picture to shoot at each and every corner, but the people here really get a fit when you take a picture of them. The Egyptians seemed far more relaxed about this. Pull out a camera here and you will feel like a rapist in a monastery. No telephoto lens is long enough. They will spot you. I started shooting out of the hip like John Wayne, without looking through the viewfinder, but I got caught. When ...

... didn't bite us only the other tourists. It must be our charm! Snakes! We're not talking about the reptiles. Marrakech was where a pickpocketer tried stealing money from Rachel's pocket twice! What a snake! I had to lay down the law though. During our stay in Marrakech we got to see much of the same mosques and other religious temples.

... agua
limpa....asneira....e grossa...que ficou fina...bem já passou...muitos
Imodiuns, Demicinas, Cipro, e qualquer coisa mais..
Merzouga, porta
do deserto de Erg Chebbi, 50 km da fronteira com a Argélia, um calor
abrasador...a vista do hotel para as dunas ao fim da tarde é
fantástica...subimos algumas dunas para ver o por do sol, não tivemos
sorte nesse dia, havia algumas nuvens, mas mesmo assim valeu a pena.
Partimos
no dia a ...

... Abdul negotiates and they settle on one dirham. (We're not cheap - this is what you do in Morocco.) By the end of the hike I was calling Said my little mountain goat. He was extremely sure footed and had to haul me up a couple of rocks but the little guy knew just the right amount of pull to get me up and over to the next one. He does not go to school as it is too far away but he hopes to learn enough English or French to become ...