Ibis Moussafir Rabat
32-34 Rue Abderrahmanne El Ghafiki, Place de la Gare Rabat, 10000, Morocco
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Rabat, like a tourist
... to not take a picture. So I put my camera up, and met one of the soldiers halfway as he was already heading my direction. Unable to communicate to each other, he was quite understanding and I just told him that I was looking for the Chellah. He directed me to backtrack where I came from and turn right instead of left and the intersection. So that was my first interaction with the Royaume du Moroc armed guards, as I came to find out later ...
Rabat and Ramadan
... nobody in the alleys at all, as the muerzzins called from the various local mosques. This was itfar time (breaking of the fast) and families had returned to their homes for vital food and drink supplies. You could have heard a pin drop, as the entire place looked like it had been deserted. I walked back to the medina gate near my digs and went to the local eatery, but every scrap of food had been sold! Some harira soup and coffee did me fine.
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Rabat In One Day
With only one day in Morocco's capital we thought it was best to get to it and therefore got an early start on the day. Just after 07:00 we left our hotel and walked the couple of kilometres to reach Sala Colonia and Chellah which is the joint archaeological site of Roman and Islamic ruins respectively. The Roman ruins of Sala Colonia were nowhere near as good as those at Volubilis but the Islamic Necropolis of Chellah was worth ...
Dance like a Rabat
... and discovered that Morocco is amazingly lush. This holds true to the last mile before the desert in the south and east where you go from red soil with deep green plants to almost plain sand in the space of about 2-3km. That was still a long way from Rabat though - way out past Marrakech. Rabat's agricultural hinterland was hilly and pleasant, though I imagine the stifling heat in the summer would dull your interest.
Rabat is smaller ...
Morocco Part 1: Wait, are we really in Africa?
I'm not even sure where to begin with our trip to Morocco. It was, in so many ways, indescribable and unique. We went through a program called Morocco Exchange which meant that we weren’t just going for the pretty views and amazing shopping. We were learning about their culture, staying with a family, and talking to Moroccan students over a span of four days. It was so much more than just a tourist visit.
We started ...



