Hotel Sherazade Marrakech

Situé en plein coeur de la médina, à quelques pas du port et de la plage, le Riad Chakir Mogador est le lieu privilégié de votre escale à Essaouira.


Cette maison d'hôtes, entièrement restaurée dans le pur respect des traditions et de l'architecture ...

... managed to dodge them luckily.

Watching
everyone set up the night food market made me very hungry so we went back to
get Nick and set off for dinner, finally choosing a place where we I had
vegetarian cuscus, shrimp and olives. While we were eating dinner a monkey
escaped from his owner and there was a big hullabalou as the monkey ducked
under stalls and ran, his owner chasing after him. Just as the owner caught him
another monkey on a lead jumped onto ...

From the fun flats of Marrakech...we made our way to the High Atlas mountains for well...mountains of magnificent hiking and views.

Jebel Toubkal stands at 4200m above sea level and at that is the highest most point in northern Africa and also a bit of a mission! We made it up the mighty mountain in a few days and did some sleeping, sun burning and Scrabble in there as well. An absolutely incredible adventure!

Back down and all set to embark on a road trip to Fez!

XXX

... on 'something' and proceeded to have a very bad reaction e.g. hyperventilating, panic, pain etc. Hmmm the relaxation part dissapeared as dinner plans halted, tourniquets made, and rugs were overturned as 'scorpions' and other possible dangerous insects were searched for! (Apparently a 'bite' is a regular enough occurence, how reassuring). Anyway, cut a long story short, she had to be 'cameled' off into the darkness and back to the base camp before being 4 wheel drived to a doctor ...

... 8230;.into it went a shiny 5 Durham coin. I gave him a hair rub and his Mom looked up and said something. No words. But big-time connection.

What if the boys have a sister tomorrow night…..! Susan figures a whole damn neighbourhood of kids will be at that turn in the alleyway tomorrow morning waiting for the crazy tourist to pass. I wonder if they’ll be OK with 2010 Olympic pins?... I’ve run out ...

... agua
limpa....asneira....e grossa...que ficou fina...bem já passou...muitos
Imodiuns, Demicinas, Cipro, e qualquer coisa mais..
Merzouga, porta
do deserto de Erg Chebbi, 50 km da fronteira com a Argélia, um calor
abrasador...a vista do hotel para as dunas ao fim da tarde é
fantástica...subimos algumas dunas para ver o por do sol, não tivemos
sorte nesse dia, havia algumas nuvens, mas mesmo assim valeu a pena.
Partimos
no dia a ...

... bargaining all day and having people yelling out at us to try and get us to look at their shop! There favourite call to get our attention was Fish and Chips - I think that's meant to mean they think we are British! But we got a few other odd ones like skinny girl and someone even called me a gazelle!?!? Sunday And it was back out to the square, we had a few things to do today which included getting photos with the snakes and monkeys in the square ...