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Luggage found
All is well. My luggage is with me now and I am in Rabat.
I woke up to the sound of pigeons at my window. It was quite an unfamiliar sound, but after laying in my bed wondering what kind of freakish things were going on in the room next to me, I heard some wings flap and the noise disappeared. Much to my satisfaction, it was not the room next to me, it was just a pigeon (but nonetheless it could have been getting some freakish things on ...
Rabat and Ramadan
... Then I walked to the carpet souq, where women came down from the villages and sold their carpets to the souq stall holders. I thought it would be good to watch but..........with Ramadan's end approaching that evening, the ladies were staying firmly in their villages! I walked to the Rabat Ville train station, buying my 1.57am ticket for Wednesday night/early Thursday morning, to Tangier, and arriving at 7am.
After a nightmare of wrong information ...
Rabat In One Day
... at Volubilis. From here we walked to the Hasssan Tower and Mausoleum of Mohammad V. The Hassan Tower is the unfinished project of the Almohad Sultan Yacoub Al’Mansour who desired to build the second biggest mosque in the world. When he died the project was abandoned and the minaret stands uncompleted at 44 metres. It was to be 60 metres. The mosque itself was ruined in the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, leaving behind a series ...
Dance like a Rabat
... mainly we explored the medina, such as it was, and hung out in the sun outside the city walls. A nice, lush, green space, it is a popular place for students to sit and talk. Most interesting on the first day was the Kasbah. Unlike the Tanger Kasbah, it was an intact, walled fortress. Inside, it was a maze of winding little streets, painted with the whitewash and blue so popular in Islamic neighbourhoods. The back of the Kasbah overlooked the ...
Morocco Part 1: Wait, are we really in Africa?
... next stop was Rabat, Morocco’s capital. We had a three hour bus ride…actually this "bus" was more like Scooby Doo’s Mystery Machine van. I have no idea how we managed to fit 16 people in there. Anyway, we stopped on the way to ride some camels on the beach. No big deal, right? To be honest, it was slightly terrifying at times. They stand up on their back two feet first, and then the front two, so at some point in ...



