Hotel Riad Salam Casablanca

... bit, which is nice. It gives us a chance to relax, catch up on emails, call friends and family via Skype, etc. Tomorrow we are visiting another club. The weather has been beautiful, with today being the warmest. Sunny, breezy and highs probably in the lower 70s if I were to guess. I'm finding Moroccans to be very warm and friendly, even the ones who gawk at us a little on the street.

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... want to stick their face into the dirty floor! Not me! The inside of the Mosque was absolutely beautiful. It took over 200 engineers, 1000 workers, and 500 artisans' working day and night to complete it in six years. The gigantic door at the front of the Mosque opens automatically and the roof retracts back too when it is good weather outside. The marble floors were cold to walk on but they installed heaters in the floor for when it gets really cold. They ...

... Ouarzazette was the most beautiful one we completed. We drove up one side of the mountains, and once we reached the peak of the highest one, and set down the other side the ice cold winds, and snow and dreary skies turned around and we saw the most beautiful rainbow (see facebook for more pictures) you could imagine. The sky was blue, the winds were less fierce and the temperature started to rise from the 5 degrees on the other side. There were herders, and farmers working in ...

... market, with grubby cobbled paths, filthy water running down the streets, donkeys, bikes, poverty, it was the heart and soul of the area. A local man named Hammad started a conversation with us talking about Argan Oil, a local produce that is used for beauty and eating. He suggested a store to by the product and against our better judgment followed him through the market, to a spice shop. Argan Oil is extracted from an inedible nut and is used in beauty products ...

Another leisurely start to the day, leaving the hotel around 11am, after paying around 40AUD to have our clothes laundered - don't ask :) Decided we would go and see the new medina which was around 1km out of town, and was actually off our map - but we figured someone would be able to point us in the right direction... that someone turned out to be 3 different people pointing in 3 different directions. 1st someone sent us in the completely opposite ...

... every one with its mosque (usually whitewashed as compared to the red of the houses). Interestingly, in one area they use prickly pear cactus to delineate the extent of their land which was a sight to see. We traveled for about 2 hours and stopped at a rest area to use the bathrooms. During the ride, our guide told us about the history of Morocco and the geography we were going through including the tidbit that Morocco is a constitutional monarchy whose ...

bonjour a tous il ne reste que 1 journee a notre periple ce matin nous avons conduit de ait ben haddou a casa et tout a bien ete ah oui nous avions oublie de vous raconter que , apres de longues heures de routes entre ouarzazate et mhamid, a 7km de l arrivee, on a fait une crevaison... le garagiste du petit village, appele par un garcon avec son telephone arabe (cellulaire.. nous avons ...

... in Casablanca, and is was quite an adventure to locate. We took a taxi to the Casa suburb of Oasis. The taxi driver had no idea where Rue ...

... an engaging discussion with Mohammed, a local from Casa working as an insurance broker which has led him to travel much of the world through his work (of which we received another invitation for any of our friends and family welcome to call him and stay with him and his family!) over a coffee or three, we said goodbye to Casablanca with a nice glass of... Panache...doh! Oh well, not complaining - Meknes still holds the trophy