Kenzi Club Oasis Sidi Brahim

So, the third day in Agadir started early... Our group gathered in the hall to go to excursion in the town of Taroudant. Before the trip I should say that Morocco has a very rare kind of tree - Argan. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argan). This tree is unique throughout the world, it grows only in North-western Africa, and it's protected by Moroccan laws. It's fruits are being gathered and squeezed by Moroccan women to produce an Argan Oil, a very high-value product ...

... of goats standing in the branches of trees to eat the leaves. <br><br>Our home for the night in Taroudannt is on a farm outside the town.The rooms are built around a courtyard with a fountain in the middle. We have breakfast in a garden which edges onto an orange orchard. Its really lovely setting. We are served fresh orange juice,<br>bananas, yoghurt and pancakes.<br><br>The town of ...

... name for a town. Visited the Arab and Berber (separately of course) markets, and had dinner in the square.. which was a new experience even for Jamal who had only eaten in the hotel up to that point! Quck stop here before heading to Essaouira!

... to the internet cafe with Jo and then met up with a few of the others to find this place called Cocktail Oasis - apparently a great juice bar! We tracked it down and had some fresh honey crepes and a fruit cocktail which was more like a super thick smoothie.! I headed back to the hotel with Jo (passing the ramparts) and ended up passing the evening watching TV, reading then going to bed just after 8pm.... such nannas!

When we arrived in agadir we tried to negotiate with the taxi driver to go to the waterfalls but he was charging through the nose so we though wed just catch the bus to taradonnt instead. We jumped on one of the local buses to take us to the next town which had a bigger bus station, and luckily a moroccan guy told us when to get off. we wondered around for a while before spotting the bus station, and then the tout were saying there wasnt a bus until they realised it hadnt left yet ...

... even those hideous mini-motorcycles came to him from sun-up to sun-down. We watched him from our window up above. Since we were so close to the foothills of the high High Atlas mtns now, the weathe got noticeably colder. It's hard to wake up at 6 or 7am these days, with the frost on the windows and the breath crystalizing in the air. Taroudant is so great!! _______________________________________ _ We were prepared for the epic climb of a ...

For everybody who has been wondering what we have been up to since our glorious departure from Paris on Oct 2nd, be advised that our travel plans have been modified extensively : 3 weeks in Morocco instead of 2 months, cancellation of Mauritania and Mali (outrageous flights), hasty and unexpected return to Paris on Oct 27 and new departure scheduled for Sicily on Nov 3rd. Now, Morocco in a few words : more touts and hassle we ...

had a great variety of experiences the last week, meeting people and seeing landscapes of a great cross section of moroccan life! in midelt i met some lovely berber children who were fascinated but too shy to look at us (unlike the arabic city kids who chased after us to sell things). from here we moved on to the desert camp, our nite out on the edge of the sahara- a ...

Weather and hotel were great and the city is amazing. My favourite place was Djema el Fna; juggler, gambler, trader, fortuneteller and snake-charmer meet there. The basar (where I spent nearly all the time) is close to Djema el Fna. Other highlights were a trip to Atlas mountains and a ...

What to say; Marrakech truly has it going on! Lots and lots of tourists, but that was fine; a perpetual cross-roads/melting pot which just soaked everyone up, adding to the atmosphere. Djeema el fna, the main square, is the city's centrepiece....a constant hive of activity. By it is crawling with snake charmers, henna artists, ripoff artists, orange juice carts, dried fruit/nut merchants, monkey's wearing nappies, apothecaries, touts, costumed dudes posing for ...