Ibis Moussafir Marrakech Palmeraie

... vous séduira par son atmosphère reposante.


20 chambres vous accueillent dans un univers de confort propre aux charmes de l'Orient. Soucieux de votre bien-être, l'ensemble du personnel mettra tout en oeuvre pour vous garantie un séjour inoubliable.

... we hadn’t wanted him. It
was getting dark by the time we got there and he took us to the wrong one.
Luckily the lady who answered showed us to the correct one. We were deep in the
narrow lanes of the medina and it was exciting but I was exhausted. We finally
got there and plopped our stuff down. The riad was very pretty, unassuming on
the outside and then with a little courtyard inside and rooms situated around
it. Lots of cushions, lounging areas and a ...

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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... reminds me of India and all the experiences i had there that live on in my mind but it is an odd amalgamation of the western and traditional. The main square is a magical place where all is alive by night and oh so chilled and interesting in the day.

We did a couple of days exploration of all it had to offer and then onwards AND upwards...

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... gladiator set and mucked around. Got extremely dirty. Ya, it was fun.

Medina Marrakech. Awesome. Sensory assault. Food, bags, belts, jewellery, rugs, scarves, nuts, juice, henna, monkeys, snakes... you name it. My flu had firmly set in by now which severely impacted my bargaining abilities (which were poor to begin with) and patience with the barrage of sellers. Yup, sick Claire is not good company.

Moroccan Hamman (Spa). Awesome. Albeit a peculiar experience. Stripped ...

... basically an oasis in the northside of town, which is known as the Yves St Laurent gardens. A horticulturist designed and planted the gardens almost a hundred years ago following a traditional Islam plan. After he died in the early 60’s, Yves St Laurent bought the site and restored the plants and public walks. He lived in Marrakesh. His “Majorelle Blue” is a stunning colour of blue made famous by this ...

... ask if you may take a picture, the answer is almost certainly no. If you get a yes, it is because you've asked if they'd mind. If you ask why, they will tell you, it is against their religion. This is hard to argue against. However, one thing would easily change everything: Lots of people will ask for money if you want to take a picture. Maybe I just misunderstood, did they say it's the prophet or the profit that matters?

... para o deserto...horas em cima do dromedário é um
calvário....nem é pelo calor, nem pelo vento, nem pela areia e somente
mesmo pelo nosso coccix....MEU DEUS!!!
Quando desci da besta nem consegui segurar as pernas, tremiam pareciam varas verdes.
Chegamos
a umas das maiores dunas do Erg Chebbi 250 mt de areia....podem pensar
o Monte Crasto tem 125 mt, mas é granito, areia 250 mt são 5 km...dois
passos para frente um passo para trás, é muito ...

... The next day was purely to get to the airport and leave but unfortunately we got to Casablanca and ended up with a 3.5 hour delay so we didn't get into London quite as early as expected, due to fog in London. I liked how different this place was, but I don't think I could have done another day, you do get annoyed of people constantly asking for money or asking you to look at their shop or even worse putting snakes and monkeys on you and then asking for money.

... It was a bit if a thrill when some of the vendors would hear us say 'New Zealand' and reply 'ah Kiwis, kiaora bigwelcome!'. In fact, one of the watch stands where we were looking had a guy claiming that he had lived in Christchurch for years, working in a kebab shop ('I lived nextdoor to the Wizard!'). It was such a good backstory, we didn't particularly mind that it was probably all rubbish so we bought a couple of watches off him. We haggled him down to a ...