Hotel Rivoli Casablanca

... watched as our flight moved up the board, then suddenly went to Open, then Closed in a matter of minutes. We raced over to the counters to be told the flight had been cancelled and to see the EgyptAir rep at his counter. So off we went, waited there with a few more irate passengers and were told we would be put on a flight the following day and would be staying at the airport hotel overnight. Mike made a call to Helene to let her know about ...

... for 10X the meter price. The first hotel we were going to try was just a block away so we walked. At the hotel, which was in pretty rough shape, the owner was trying to charge double the advertised rate online, and more than we've paid for any other hotel in Morocco. We had one other address copied from our friends Lonely Planet so we decided to give that a try. We walked back to the train station to hail down a cab. Again, every driver ...

If you had to sum up Morocco in one word, for a US visitor it would be FOREIGN.  But I'll go further and give you our top ten moments: 1.  Smart @$$ comment from Le Gallia Hotel Staff - Breakfast is served BEFORE noon. 2.  Marrakech street vendors think Skippy is Japanese and one tries all of his Kung Fu moves to prove it. 3.  Walking the gauntlet ...

... zalogi, ale nie przepadam za tlumem 800<br>osob wokol mnie. Zupelnie inna atmosfera niz na spotkaniach z Taize.<br>Brakowalo mi tego.<br>Praca fotografa idzie mi calkiem dobrze. Moj szef odkryl, ze na<br>wycieczkach (pasazerowie moga opcjonalnie wykupic wycieczke w niemal<br>kazdym porcie) robie najwiecej zdjec ze wszystkich, wiec zaczal mnie<br>wysylac na wiecej tripow ;) To ...

Convocation à 00h30 à l'aéroport de Ouagadougou, je dis au revoir à Leslie, cette fabuleuse française qui m'a accueilli dans ces terres burkinabées. A 3h30 mon avion décolle, arrivé à Casablanca au Maroc à 7 heures du matin... où il faut encore changer de fuseau horaire... et d'avion!

... the Imperial cities of Morocco. The Imperial Cities of Morocco (Rabat, Meknes, Fez and Marrakesh) were all at some stage the capital of the various Arabic Dynasties that have ruled Morocco for centuries, following the flow of Arabs from the Middle East in the 7th century in order to spread Islam. Prior to the arrival of the Arabs, the local Berbers were living a nomadic existence in Morocco. The Arab and ...

... living on tourism). Casablanca is not at all the city we see in the movies, but rather a modern, huge port city. It's most striking feature (I think) is the Hassan II mosque built in 1993 in honor of the previous king. Luckily our driver and guide decided to stop there and allow us to walk around the plaza by the mosque (which is built right on the sea) for 10 minutes. For lack of a better word, it was astounding in scale and beauty and includes two ...

... the desert, we were incredibly fortunate to come across a rare Wookie den. After much coaxing and cajoling ...

... to score an extra macaroon at lunch from the dude who poured tea and guarded the metal container of cookies! Lynn managed narrowly to avoid purchasing a carpet, while Jill and Martin got a great deal on some leather goods, thanks to their 'daughter' Rachel getting them a 'student discount'. The friday was a super long drive down to Marakesh, stopping to see monkeys on the way, and subsequently running away from the monkeys when they turned on us! A quiet day of ...

... to catch an onward bus to Casablanca, resolving to catch Rabat on the way back. Casablanca&#8217;s no better, of course. There is just absolutely not one single hotel in the vicinity of the bus station, and this is a fairly thickly populated area. By now it&#8217;s well past sundown, of course, so I really have no choice but to go into town. So I get a cab, and it turns into one of ...