Ryad Mogador Agdal 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 ...

... through it to a large mosque but saw some homeless people
who were on their way to us so came back via a park with lots of horse drawn
carriages and then back home to pick dad up.

We had breakfast
at the riad and then dad and I had a very productive few hours of our ‘only one
day to visit Marrakech’, seeing as much as possible. Big sights to see were
fortunately located within walking distance of each other so it was good. We
first went out ...

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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... loser who’s told to go over there….I watch his confusion but, to his credit, he seems to eventually get to an officer over by the H1N1/Swine Flu sensor area and have something done because he comes back in a much more purposeful gait. This time, Susan holds our place in line…..I go to the guy in the white shirt who interrogates me about when I left Canada (the incubator of all bad diseases), then he bashes ...

... and charm than Agadir. Marwan gave us a bit of a tour of the city which included a woodwork place where they make amazing furntiure and jewellery boxes and all sorts. We had to cut the tour short and find refuge inside a nice warm dry restaurant. We went back to the hotel via a bottle shop and spent the night in the hotel room playing drinking games which was quite hilarious. After a couple of hours exploring the little streets of Essouira in the morning we ...

... agua
limpa....asneira....e grossa...que ficou fina...bem já passou...muitos
Imodiuns, Demicinas, Cipro, e qualquer coisa mais..
Merzouga, porta
do deserto de Erg Chebbi, 50 km da fronteira com a Argélia, um calor
abrasador...a vista do hotel para as dunas ao fim da tarde é
fantástica...subimos algumas dunas para ver o por do sol, não tivemos
sorte nesse dia, havia algumas nuvens, mas mesmo assim valeu a pena.
Partimos
no dia a ...

... little hole in the wall hammam and the lady does not speak any English. Only French and Arabic. Using a bit of sign language she understands we want the works so in just bather botoms we head to the big steam room and are told to sit. Plenty of big mummas around then the bigest one of all comes over and is our scrubber. We have to massage this black olive scrub onto our bodies and then she flips and spins us around to scrape ...

... went fairly well, although the room was dimly lit and I was hardly able to read what I had written. I also had to be quiet so as not to disturb the diners in the other part of the restaurant. It was more rushed than I like it to be, but I had to hurry because the belly dancers were waiting and we had to do the birthday cake before they could come on. Nobody went hungry! We have an early departure to the airport in just a few hours, so I had best get some sleep. Love to all, Dan