Imperial Borj 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 ...

... too. Our room was very nice,
if low lighting, and dad had a bed too. The bathroom was mud brick and the sink
had a brass bowl that looked like gold so I felt very luxurious.

Dad and I went
to get some water and we had a little look around. People were all over the
place, lots of bikes squeezing through the streets and lanes. Tiny shop fronts
and light bulbs hanging over them, carts selling fruit (dad got some cactus
fruit to try, delicious though lots ...

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

After immense Irish experiences and an interesting and equally incredible adventure in Italy i arrived in Morocco having met both big brother Jage and eventually Stewart in Milan...

We made our way to the mad, mixed and amazing Marrakech with a few friends we found along the way and ended up in the midst of Ramadan at a funky guesthouse hidden away in the ...

... Cough, sinuses, throat, and lack of appetite (that's when I know Im definitely sick) meant that I had to cancel my planned overnight trip to Essaioura and instead book into a 4 star hotel to sleep it off. (Yeah backpacker justification, it worked). Complete misery. Bedridden with one extremely poor english channel and a diminishing supply of panadol. But hey it happens, and word of advice to self and anyone travelling - get your flu shot and make sure you pack cold and flu tablets ...

... amp; garden.



I had a bee in my bonnet to try to purchase 3-4 small wrought-iron lamps, the kind you associate with Arabia. They look wonderful over an entry, a pool, etc. with a tee candle inside and a tassel hanging from the bottom. I wanted to hang small ones from the tree at home that overhangs our hot tub. This meant a visit to the narrow shops of the souk area. It’s also a guarantee “get ...

Marrakech is an incredible city. It has a huge walled city centre, the walls are 16 km long and still intact, and if you enter through one of the gates, the world is not like it used to be. People come dressed like in those movies about when Jesus was born, so I think it is a very adequate place to spend the week before Christmas. I wonder anyway how snow and Santa on a sledge came into the picture when the whole story ...

... cil.
Levanta-se
uma pequena tempestade de areia...toca a correr dali para fora e rápido
antes que ela chegue até nós....descer é fácil é só correr para chegar
a nossa "haima"(tenda Tuareg). Ai vem ela, impressionante a força da
natureza, e a resistencia da "haima"e dos seus cobertores. Passa pouca
areia para dentro isto em comparação com o que esta a passar lá fora.
Uma hora bastou uma hora, para que ganhasse bastante respeito ao
Marrakech, Morocco ajmspg

im actually putting this entry in about 4 months since being here. just thought i may as well up date so i get all my pins etc on my map. marrakesh was awesome, very interesting place and really worth the visit. cant remember wat i did so this is all folks...

... few days we enjoyed having breakfast on the rooftop of the hotel, watching the square come to life. Also at night, the place fills with delicious foodstalls, beggars, snake shows, musicians, storytellers, and pickpockets. My favourite square entrance was the enormous kettle of tea with ginger, cinnamon and a dozen other herbs. 'A grerat aphrodiziac', according to our friendly tea seller, and it was not the last time we heard that. There are few activities in Marrakech ...