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Majorelle Hotel Marrakech

AVENUE ALLAL FASSI NAo 25 Marrakech, Morocco

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Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel!

A travel blog entry by viva.sabata

... shop, into which he invited us into for tea. We politely declined figuring that hard carpet or dromedary sales tactics were sure to follow. Looking back on the situation I would do the same again not wanting to leave someone stranded in the middle of some desert. Whether or not it was a scam remains unknown. If it was a scam to sell carpets or desert excursions, then they have taken things to great heights. But in this case ...

Across the Atlas to the Real Morocco

A travel blog entry by viva.sabata

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... When out of nowhere appeared a man with a basket full of beautiful geodes. It was creepy but we ended up buying a few of them anyway after some fearce negotiating that was concluded by him dropping the rocks in my lap as we were driving off and agreeing to my price. The kids are really enamored with them. We continued winding up the mountain and came upon a Berber village with BBQ smoke billowing from several of the road side cafes. It seemed to be a ...

All Roads Lead to Marrakech

A travel blog entry by viva.sabata

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... out but he drags me back in. We haggle and I walk out again and he finally agrees to 150D. But he seemed too happy so I still paid too much! Although it was marked "Fez" on the back, it will still be a good souvineer from Marakech.
We bought nuts, a ring for Jed,a few other things and a basket to carry it all in. The kids were getting cranky at this point so we found a nice sit-down restuarant on the square who insisted that he advertisement for live music and belly dancing ...

All Aboard the Marrakech Express!

A travel blog entry by viva.sabata

... After freshening up we ventured to the main square (Djemaa el-Fna) for some dinner and entertainment. It was complete mayhem. Pushy arabs plied for our business goind so far as to block our path. A transvestite belly dancer flitted about for tips. Rather good musicians added to the ambiance. Henna tattoo artists were selling their talents. We showed half interest of them in passing which caught their attention and agressive selling tactics. ...

Sweating it out

A travel blog entry by markanthonylow

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... on sale but in more abundance than anywhere else, the shop owners all again attempt to pull you in, "Just look, its free” and "special price for you” was the normal offers but with the abundance of tourists having passed through here “Asda price” and “lovely jubbly mate” was also added to the offered dialog. Once you had decided upon a store to look at and found something that you quite liked then the long process ...