Crown Palace Fes

Very quick one here as it's after 6pm and I'm off to Merzouga (the Erg Chebbi desert) tonight on the 8:00pm Supratours bus (FWIW 140 Dh ~ $17) An 11 hr. ride through the night, but I have my iPod audiobook, movie, etc. plus will hopefully sleep some) Arrive in Merzouga at 7 am tomorrow morning and the plan is to negotiate an overnight camel trek into the Saraha for tomorrow night. Possibly a 2nd night in the desert, but in any case ...

... sheep skin. Still though, absolutely breathtaking view and for under 3 quid a night it was a bit of a result. <br><br>Our host, Abdul, who had 4 or 5 kids and a wife living in the same house seemed like a pretty good guy despite the fact that he was constantly trying to sell you stuff (which turned out to be the culture of Asilah due to its population fluctuating by ten fold every year due to tourists). After we settled the bill of 9 pound for the ...

... can hail a cab if I need to, but I just don't think it should have to come to that. I also wonder if that is something other GSE teams have had to do? I hope not. We also don't know at this point how we're getting back to Casablanca. "Go with the Flow." - Many of our days have been very loose or we wake up not knowing where we are going or only having a general idea of what will be going on. At first, I kind of liked the ...

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... he had found a real ringer in Aarathi. Also giving us the now familiar schpiel about not being a hard sales guy, he gave a masterclass on all types of sales techniques to a should-really-know-better Aarathi. He commented on how many famous people had been in his store, but funnily enough there were only a couple of pictures of him with those people. Most of the other pictures were newspaper ...

... chicken, but the decision to drive on and find a more gentle port of entry was almost immediate. So the story goes that I drove the 40-odd Ks to Asilah, a little town on the Atlantic coast on the road to Rabat. I'm now chilling in my bedroom at the Hotel Marhaba, right in front of the Medina's gates, half listening to the hubbub in the streets below and the local muezzin's call to prayer. Oh, and yes, I'm also ...

... consensus among many travelers is that Tangier is ugly, dirty, and dangerous, so we set our eyes a little further afield and found Asilah.  Asilah is an interesting small town set on the Atlantic coast that has been owned by the Berbers, the Moors, the Portuguese, the Spanish, the French, and ultimately what is now Morocco.  As such, it's an interesting little cross section, and there are a whole lot of natives who speak really good Spanish.  More often ...

Asilah, a small coastal town about 30 miles south of Tangier, was our first stop in Morocco for an afternoon of touring at our leisure and a night at a beachside campground. Asilah's medina (walled old city) of shimmering white houses with blue wooden doors and stone trim looks almost like a movie set, all sanitized and gentrified by wealthy second home owners from Morocco's larger cities and quite apart from the messy ...

Morocco was an incredible culture shock for me. I rode a camel and hired a guide. The market consisted of tiny streets and there was all kinds of meat and olives for sale. There were also lots of different spices and rugs and ointments. One man had a small room opening out onto the street and he was selling coal out of it. The room consisted of a small stool and an ancient scale and bags of coal. The room ...

... cause I had decided to take the night train to Marrakech that night, so he invited me to his family's house.<br><br>Invitation to an evening with a Berber family<br>At Mohammed's home there were loads of people and everybody tried as hard as they could to say something to me, in the little French they knew. I was offered a super-overly-sweet mint tea - which is very normal in Morocco, and with it a simple, quite dry cake. Once there was nothing left of the cake, Mohammed's wife ...