Meryem Hotel 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 ...

... managed to dodge them luckily.

Watching
everyone set up the night food market made me very hungry so we went back to
get Nick and set off for dinner, finally choosing a place where we I had
vegetarian cuscus, shrimp and olives. While we were eating dinner a monkey
escaped from his owner and there was a big hullabalou as the monkey ducked
under stalls and ran, his owner chasing after him. Just as the owner caught him
another monkey on a lead jumped onto ...

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 ...

... way out. He did; we went; so did he, always a discreet distance off my left front quarter panel. I tested him once by overtaking a parked cart on the right but, sure enough, I noticed he scooted around the cart and took up position again. We got to a street with vehicles and soon spotted a cab. It didn’t take long for his hand to come out and say, “Money”. If you were nuts enough to ask how much, they ...

... light. As we sit here in this absolutely idyllic setting I hear the call to prayer for the very first time for real – sure I’ve heard it on the TV, but that’s not the same, I knew I was somewhere different, from what I’d seen so far, Marrakech was going to be a place ripe with possibilities.

Once the mint tea is finished we’re all ready to go and get something to eat – so we head for the main square, Djemaa el Fna. The ...

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 ...

... t care how hot it is, shorts and a tube top do not constitute proper apparel here when the locals are covered from head to to. This includes men. 3. Bureaucracy at any level--including the post office-- requires the patience of a minor god if you want to get anything done. 4. Air conditioning is possibly the highest pinnacle of human achievement since the invention of the wheel. Can openers and ice cubes come in a close second.

Um grupo de desconhecidos encontram-se na Portela as 7.00 da manhã de
25 de Abril, apresentam-se e aqui nasce uma amizade. Uma amizade que
foi ficando muito coesa durante esses curtos 8 dias de aventura que
passamos. Momentos difíceis. Momentos divertidos, muitos momentos muito
divertidos, alias a maior parte deles.
Um pais com uma cor fantástica, com uma cultura estranha, mas muito viva e marcada, resumindo um pais que me fascinou.
Marrakech ...

... to keep the ban from passing, especially Jordan, who is the only one I know personally. And of course to all the people who will now be officially second class citizens in the eyes of our state...I hope everyone else is quite proud of that as we cheer on our Packers and Badgers and drink more beer and buy Christmas presents and all that jazz. Way to go Wisconsin. Okay, if that offended anyone...too bad, I'm not in the mood. But Africa is cool, anyway. Love you all.