Imperial Plaza Hotel Marrakech

... 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.

... snakes and their charmers. Oh and monkeys on
leashes. These I kept well away from, fascinated but not wanting any part of
it. The snakes were either on the ground being kicked occasionally so they
would flare up and look interesting, or hanging in a circle from one of the
charmers hands looking dead. The monkeys were sullenly following their masters
or sitting on their shoulders. We went home for a rest as it was super hot at
this point.

Back at the riad
Marrakech, Morocco shanemilli

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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... I said to Susan, “Hear that kid crying? That’s the young brother of the boy I gave a coin to, I think.”

One the way home – pitch dark other than some diffused light from a filigree wrought iron lamp on a paint-peeled wall here & there – we pass the same woman, her head down, same two boys. It’s about 11pm. I knelt down to the younger boy this time….out came a little ...

... originates in Palestine. So here I am, and sometimes I do wonder if I stepped on board a Boeing 737 to get here, or was it really a time machine. Luckily, every few minutes you get almost run over by a motorcycle in those narrow winding streets, so the time machine is kind of out of the question, but then you walk a little further, take a side lane into some spooky neighbourhood and start to wonder again. There ...

... around 9ish. The next few days were spent pretty much either hanging around the camp ground or wondering through the markets. Oliver's ankle has been playing up again so he stayed put opting to practice guitar instead. I managed to find an internet café with reasonable upload so got the blog up to date - YAY! Bought secret santa presents, went back to the patisserie about another 5 times... and the ice cream place. Gave the snails a miss. We ...

... br>Jantamos dentro da haima, um Tagine maravilhoso de frango,
arroz branco para limpar e muitas, muitas bananas, cola sem gás e pão,
o pão é divinal.
A noite, o silencio não consigo descrever, não tenho palavras, é é não sei...adorei.
As estrelas parecem que estão a meio metro dos nossos olhos.
Dia seguinte decidimos regressar a nossa vida de "Lords" pois não é facil a vida de nomada.
Meu Deus mais horas de dromedário.....AIIIIIII o meu rabo ...

... wasn't there, and I was just on the verge of ringing the hotel when he appeared so we pounced and off we went in an old Merc with no air con. Memorable sights - a moped being ridden by 2 women - the one on the front with a small child on her knee, and the one on the back clutching a baby (and they rode past a police checkpoint!!!) - a man in a voluminous djellabah riding a bike - it was all billowing out behind him - lovely pistachio green colour, but what a ...

... where fresh juice is squeezed for a minimal amount are delicious. less so maybe the stroooong cinammon tea and the ginger cake, snails or sheeps heads we weren't game enough. plenty of gd restaurants around the edges tho. not sure how authentic some of this stuff is (especially that damn teeth guy), very much a case of a city adapting to the ...