Hotel de la Menara 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 ...

... is
dusty and hot. Really hot. I had a mint tea under the misguided assumption that
a hot beverage would cool me down, like chai tea does for the Indians. It did
not, and I was sweating like a ******* and really feeling the heat, so I
retreated to café for a cold water and a Moroccan Salad (much like Mexican
salsa, consists of roughly chopped cilantro, tomato and onion), which came to
about 60 cents. Great lunch.

Found Milli and
Nick later and we ...

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!

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... at your riad to trek over to their riad), just down the alleyway from our hotel entrance, is a winding path, really, that after 2 minutes leads to a busy alley with shops, people and scooters. Along the way, at a 90 degree turn, sits a beggar woman with two boys about 4 and 6 yrs old. I stopped to give a coin to one of the boys, the elder one. (I think helping the poor comes right out of the Koran.) Then behind me I hear this ...

... But the fish was extremely fresh and the calamari delicious. It took us quite a bit of hassling to get attention to be served but it was well worth it. And the final price of dinner for two at about £9 was a nice price tag. We ended the night at one of the desert carts having some strange brown goop that tasted of spicy cinnamon.

We were always up for trying the local food, and for good reason – from the fresh orange juice carts to the tangine lamb and vegetables ...

... didn't speak English, either so he pointed us to someone who did - joy, the same man who got into the tif with Shajine....ahhhh! He gave us all these ideas for things to do, we made some reservations and then we asked what was safe to do at this time of night. He said, "well, if you all wait a little while, I get off in a few minutes and I'll drop you in the city." At first we hesitated but then we thought we would trust a random ...

... e nós nem sequer pensamos no que
vemos em relação a higiene.
O souk (mercado) um autentico labirinto,
vielas que para mim ao principio eram dúbias, deixaram de o ser ao fim
de umas horas...são um povo simpático e afável. O roubo é pena capital.
As lutas de boxe em plena praça, os encantadores de serpentes, as tatuagens, todo um comercio.
Oukmaiden
uma estancia de Ski em pleno Alto Atlas, um ar frio mas puro, pouca
neve, subimos aos 3 ...