Riad Noor Charana 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 ...

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Shane, dad and I
were seen off by Olga on another warm clear morning and it was sad to leave. We
flew from Split to London, had a stereotypical curry in an airport pub and then
flew to Marrakech. The immigration queues were achingly slow (literally in
dad’s case as his legs were killing him standing still for so long) and the
Moroccan stamp was **** in the end. But we were there.

Coming in ...

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!

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... reminds me of India and all the experiences i had there that live on in my mind but it is an odd amalgamation of the western and traditional. The main square is a magical place where all is alive by night and oh so chilled and interesting in the day.

We did a couple of days exploration of all it had to offer and then onwards AND upwards...

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... motorcycles: old ones, torn seats with foam spilling out, nothing over 50cc. And the toddler is standing on the frame, leaning forward with hands on the speedometer, wife in full dress behind the driver (in a long ground level dark outergear called a jallabah). The street is pure theatre: scooters like this going WAY to fast, inches from unconcerned pedestrians; sand-brown cabs tooting their way through it all; people ...

... Barcelona 4 neguitoses i interminables hores, finalment posem els peus a Barcelona, quin munt d'emocions juntes, feia tant temps de tot plegat que qualsevol detall s'ens posava bé, sentir la gent parlant català, poder llegir les senyals...res tu! que ja erem a casa, després d'un any ple de coses noves, sensacions mai viscudes, experiències inolvidables, persones entranyables...en ...

... originates in Palestine. So here I am, and sometimes I do wonder if I stepped on board a Boeing 737 to get here, or was it really a time machine. Luckily, every few minutes you get almost run over by a motorcycle in those narrow winding streets, so the time machine is kind of out of the question, but then you walk a little further, take a side lane into some spooky neighbourhood and start to wonder again. There ...

... e nós nem sequer pensamos no que
vemos em relação a higiene.
O souk (mercado) um autentico labirinto,
vielas que para mim ao principio eram dúbias, deixaram de o ser ao fim
de umas horas...são um povo simpático e afável. O roubo é pena capital.
As lutas de boxe em plena praça, os encantadores de serpentes, as tatuagens, todo um comercio.
Oukmaiden
uma estancia de Ski em pleno Alto Atlas, um ar frio mas puro, pouca
neve, subimos aos 3 ...

... often only possible if you remove the lampshades. Hoteliers claim it is to save money on electricity. If so put key cards in the rooms to turn all the lights out when we leave, give us Davy lamps or even more radically cut your obscene margins by a fraction of one percent and give us decent lighting. That said the Riad Lotus Ambre is a great place to stay and one I can recommend without a moments hesitation. However, if you need a pool look ...

... get a snake or monkey put on your shoulder, or some unwanted henna on your hands that you would have no choice but to pay for (which happened right before our eyes to an American girl we had just met). Well, I actually volunteered to have Ed take my photo with a snake (a small one) and it wasn't scary at all...but, then again, I WAS holding its neck quite tight! All the action in the square begins in the early evening but it really ...