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Riad Dar Zahia Marrakech

60 derb El Hammam, Mouassine, 40000 Marrakech, Morocco

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Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel!

A travel blog entry by viva.sabata

... two young Berber men with a broken down car in the middle of the desert. They flagged us down and we eventually came to a mutual understanding that one of them wanted a ride to the next village. One of them spoke limited English and no one in our party speaks Arabic, Berber, or French. I scanned them and figured that they were not carrying any weapons and seemed desperate for a ride so Dorrie piled in the back with the kids, ...

Across the Atlas to the Real Morocco

A travel blog entry by viva.sabata

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... gas station may be out of gas or closed or something. Oh yeah, he also stressed obeying the speed limits for a third time. We got the message! The ride through the Atlas mountains was a toe curler. The narrow road winds along ridges with only a pile of rocks separating you from near vertical drops of up to a thousand feet. The road reminded me of a steep national park trail with switchbacks only just wide enough to accomodate two passing trucks. There is ...

All Roads Lead to Marrakech

A travel blog entry by viva.sabata

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... originals and not copies. Hopefully US Customs will buy that line too.
We proceeded to get lost in the medina. Once in a while the narrow paths would open up and we thought we had made it back to the main square but it proved to be a decoy. We happened on a shop where I fell to my weakness of hand-painted ceramic plates. I found a very nice porcelin plate with a very intracate blue on white Berber design.
"how much?"
This opened up a conversation of the usual ...

All Aboard the Marrakech Express!

A travel blog entry by viva.sabata

... I told her to buzz off again. We went and freed Dorrie next and disappeared into the crowd.
In retrospect the whole thing was pretty harmless as they were just off to a better place to finish the hand painting. But parental instincts prevailed - a feeling I hope to never feel again!
We wandered the square more looking for desert and finally settled on ice cream cones. They were delicious.
Thumb pecked on my iPhone...please excuse the ...

Souqs and soup

A travel blog entry by lyncraven

... told us to go up to the balcony 2 floors above. Stood like royalty on a royal, elite viewing platform we observed a band, 2 black cars, 3 large, grand security coaches follow and somre more bands, take flight on the roadway following the black cars. Then it was all over! It was a case of 'I saw the King' but didn't actually see anyone! All the poor folks who had waited outside for hours simply saw 2 cars and not even a royal wave out of a window. Long live ...

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