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Riad Alexandra Marrakech

9 Derb Jdid Assoul Marrakech, 40000, Morocco

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Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel!

A travel blog entry by viva.sabata

... about a dozen cops in riot gear ready to pounce what appeared to be a crowd up ahead. So we turned around and high tailed it back to the hotel we stayed at the night before and stayed within the hotel walls for the rest of the evening. The hotel restaurant was nearly packed later that evening, compared to empty the night before whe Dorrie and I went in for a late evening bottle of wine. Thumb pecked on my iPhone...please excuse the ...

Across the Atlas to the Real Morocco

A travel blog entry by viva.sabata

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... just a pile of rocks at the edge. The switchback corners have insufficient turn radius to accomodate a truck, which we learned by following a loaded petrol truck up the hill. Just before the corner the driver would blare the horn to warn on coming cars that he was swinging wide into their lane. We listened intently for truck horns the whole way. At one point we pulled off the road to stretch our legs and relax our sphincters. I also had to take ...

All Roads Lead to Marrakech

A travel blog entry by viva.sabata

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... however much you give these people, they believe they are intifled to everything in your pocket. All the while a fellow tourist was flipping out next to us because one of the monkeys pees all over him...I wonder how much he paid for that memory? I suppose that Alta's fear of monkeys is justified after all!
The medina proved too many distractions to finish the tour. Like a fish attracted to a shiny lure, I migrated over to a vendor selling CDs of Arabic and Berber music. I ...

All Aboard the Marrakech Express!

A travel blog entry by viva.sabata

... really trooped well as our packs are starting to get heavy. About half way there Jed had an 'oh ****' moment and stopped to dig for his camera. Later digging on the train did not turn one up, marking our second trip causuality. The first was Dorrie's sunglasses and med bag which seemed to have gotten lifted from her handbag in Madrid.
The train was very comfortable with a cabin all to ourselves to Casablanca. There, we changed trains ...

Marrakech plus desert trip = amazing!

A travel blog entry by kiri-ana

... bongos and sang and eventually danced around the fire (I joined in for a bit!). It was really cool - felt like experiencing real Africa. I took a short video, bur camera battery was dying so not much.

The next morning (this morning) we were woken up at 5am for breakfast (bread with marmalade) and then a 1.5 hour camel ride as the sun was rising back out of the sand dunes. There were some really pretty colours as we rode back, but unfortunately we were ...

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