Hotel Pozo del Duque Zahara de los Atunes

In the morning we left Torremolino for Gibraltar. It's a British Colony. We got there pretty early and made a toiler stop at the McDonald's. Then we held our passports and passed the immigration/customs. It was so easy to get through. Rano just told the officer we are from Hong Kong and they don't care to look at any of our passports.

In Gibraltar we waited at the airport for ...

... when Megan and I just went and did our own thing. Then, we went to Flamenco dancing! Oh my goodness, Flamenco was so much fun! I "knew" what it was but had never really seen or read much about it and it was so interesting. The next day, I went to Arcos and Ronda. Look them up online, for sure! They are absolutely gorgeous cities on the white town route. That simply means that the towns along that certain area down in Southern Spain get ...

... with guns, wire corrals....I donīt imagine many borders are what one would call pretty, but I sure as heck donīt remember those wire fences when I crossed into Portugal nor when crossing into France. lol Our passports were stamped and then a Moroccan border patrolman entered our bus, very stern, very loud and warning us not to take pictures of videos of the border. We were checked and then our guide for the weekend named Abduhl, who ...

... end of Ramadan celebration called the Islamic holiday of Eid ul-Fitr. This day marks the end of the fasting period of Ramadan and the first day of the following month, after another new moon has been sighted. The Eid falls after 29 or 30 days of fasting, as per the lunar sighting. Eid ul-Fitr means the Festival of Breaking the Fast; a special celebration is made. Food and money is donated to the poor, everyone puts on their best, usually new, clothes, and ...

... After we arrived in Agadir we noted that there was only 15 minutes to spare. Unfortunatley no taxis wanted a bar of us because of our boards and the self admitted fact that we had a lot of stuff. We managed to get 3 seperate taxis to get us to the station at sky high prices with minutes to spare. As we rolled out of our taxis onto the side walk Mitch and I started simultaneously running towards the CTM bus wondering where Leon was. We were there 5 mins after the scheduled ...

... apprehension many members of the group had about going to Morocco. After all, among Muslim countries Morocco has some of the friendliest relations with Jews and some of the least hostile relationships with Israel, which is home to the largest Morocco Jewish community in the world. People were worried about crime, about dressing immodestly, about gypsies, and about standing out as Jews. It also reminded me that many of these Russian Jewish immigrants have not had ...

... our Minibus sitting at the end of the old fort wall. Tired and hungry, we head to Dar Nilam for some rest before dinner. I pay Abdul and he confirms they'll come pick us up the next day for trip to Port ....all included in price. Nice. I think through our day and realize we just did all the things listed in the travel guides as arranged tours....typical tourists. But we did it at our pace and privately.

... checking out the view from the top of the hill and trying to figure out the entrance to the kasbah a friendly man approached us and told us that he was the "doorman" of the kasbah and he would show us the way... So he took us through an entrance into the walled maze of streets, and as he was "showing us the way" he started giving us a tour and explanation of the area, had us take pictures holding door knockers for "good luck" etc. Well after about ...

... sold in France because an estate version of the Punto was never made (to my knowledge). There are also the old-style Mercedes limousines- the Grand Taxis. Rock solid. Unos/Palios are Petit Taxis. I had Couscous for supper - gorgeous. However, no beer available - no alcohol served in the restaurant where I went.

... itīs cool to just say, "oh ya, thatīs another continent over there". The ferry was late leaving and we got to Morocco around 1pm Europe time and were worried weīd only have a few hours there (4pm return) but found out Morocco is 2 hours behind. The people got split up based on what language they spoke (the organization was a bit chaotic) then we went for a walking tour through Medina and Kasba. I kept singing "rock the casbah", but the spelling is different so I donīt ...