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Hisham Hotel Marrakech

Marrakech, Morocco

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Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel!

A travel blog entry by viva.sabata

... with two ceramic bowls thrown in to sweeten the deal. So of you are in the market for a Moroccan rug, cut out the middle man and buy direct from the weavers! We made our way back to Ouazazate and figured we'd get a hotel in the middle of town closer to the local action. However, we found the road into the town center blocked off by the police. We followed some cars which seemed to know a way around only to find a police paddy ...

Across the Atlas to the Real Morocco

A travel blog entry by viva.sabata

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... only an hour from Anchorage...and so it is with Morocco. In these parts English is not widely spoken; Spanish even less. Everyone speaks French or Moroccan Arabic, however, so we are giving our Ultralingua French-English dictionary a good workout. Another noteworthy tip is to get a business card from your hotel so it can be given to a cab driver to minimize confusion. Or better yet, we have the bus station name written in Arabic on the backside of our ...

All Roads Lead to Marrakech

A travel blog entry by viva.sabata

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... it all off, it was generously adorned witn plenty of stained glass.
Before making it to the Palace we were distracted by snake charmers and folks with monkeys. We stopped at one of the snake charmer booths and took anfew pics and the attached vid. I find snakes repulsive but still have a strange fascination with them. I gave them the equivalent of a few bucks and they insisted on more. They poor guy next to us gave them about $20 and they still wanted more from him. Whih leads me to a ...

All Aboard the Marrakech Express!

A travel blog entry by viva.sabata

... I told her to buzz off again. We went and freed Dorrie next and disappeared into the crowd.
In retrospect the whole thing was pretty harmless as they were just off to a better place to finish the hand painting. But parental instincts prevailed - a feeling I hope to never feel again!
We wandered the square more looking for desert and finally settled on ice cream cones. They were delicious.
Thumb pecked on my iPhone...please excuse the ...

Sweating it out

A travel blog entry by markanthonylow

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... very stark contrasts. I was shocked with the way the men viewed western women, even with Maria dressing as a local women, covered from head to toe the attentions sometimes got a little too much and sometimes became extremely uncomfortable. It was a shame that this seemed to shadow our trip. There were many great experiences on the trip, the landscape of Morrocco is beautiful and so were many people, it just takes alot of hard work to fully appreciate ...

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