Hotel Yto Casablanca

... courtyard where all the dead animal skins are and they are throwing them in these dies and it smelt SOOOO bad.  There were so many different skins of animals hanging everywhere. Pat...I do not recommend Morocco for you.  Then they take you into the store where they have thousands of bags, purses, belts, jackets… leather everything. I spent a pretty penny there. They barter with you, but sadly I don’t know if I did the best job. I still got a good deal compared ...

(in no particular order) 1) The driving/drivers: Honking for all and any reasons, pedestrians walking in the middle of the street, drivers almost hitting peds, drivers almost hitting other cars, drivers going 80 mph on narrow side streets, several drivers making random u-turns, left turns or any kind of turn they want - whenever they want. We've all held our breaths more than a few times, to ...

... for the original Arab part of any Moroccan town. And a souk is a market or bazaar. Also Kasbah (as in "Come with me to the Kasbah") simply means the fortified part of the city. Have a GREAT Cruise! Susan M.Aries- San Francisco - Our Private guide Said: Casablanca is Morocco's largest and most modern city. Before the French began to develop it as the country's economic capital in 1912, Casa-as Casablanca is commonly called-was only a small trading post. Its subsequent ...

... absolute blast, and taught them the game "Screw your neighbour" a Loewen-household favourite. After, the manager invited us into a club, and so off we went - enjoying whisky and Moroccan dance music, and dancing our little hearts out. The next day was a rough one to say the least. The desert was our next destination. We rode on camel back out to our camp in the sand dunes near a place called Merzouga. We awoke in the morning to the coldest weather I've experienced since I can ...

... a spectacular place to visit had it not been raining on the day of our tour - c'est la vie!The red colour of the soil combined with the occasional eucalypt reminded us of home. Soon we would be back tending to our garden, our pets, and seeing our friends and family again. This trip has begun to feel less like a holiday and more like a way of life; moving from place to place and seeing what is there. I don't think either of us will have itchy feet for ...

... king (I believe) is named Mohammed VI. The remainder of the ride was much the same, except we started seeing more hills as we climbed into the Middle Atlas mountains. They were much less spectacular than I expected and almost looked like multi-colored sand hills. The soil was very rocky and existence looked terribly hard with many areas having old-fashioned wells. About an hour plus later we came to the outskirts of Marrakech where you started seeing ...

... full of men - the one i went into for an OJ was me and about 30 men, I did feel the eyes burning into me...! Back in the safety of my hotel room I chilled and read my book. They had shifted me into a new room that overlooked the square. Its a bit of a dodgy area, so many men just hanging around doing nothing but stare and look suspicious, Casablanca is not a good place to start a holiday in Morocco. I turned ...

... the airport to the meeting. I hadn't realised that our competetion was there too and we shared the bus. Still, we got on very well and Wicat won the contract in the end. I loved Casablanca, although it seems to be becoming more European. Kevin Padden was mugged there.

... from a British bank there at the airport. Big colorful posters of things or actions, which have different meaning to people depending on where they are from. Shame I didn't take pictures of them, they were really interesting!<br><br>In Morocco<br>The flight from Morocco went well. Flew with Royal Air Maroc to Casablanca, since EasyJet hadn't started flying down there yet. I managed to fall asleep for a bit, until dinner was served. In fact, a very disgusting ...