Ryad Mogador Agdal Hotel Marrakech

... sleeping. The terracotta painted cement render almost acts as a urban camoflage amongst the red dirt everywhere…I hope this doesn’t hang around like the red earth from Uluru and Alice Springs, that **** sticks like glue to your clothes fibres.

De retour a marrakech pour recuperer notre compresseur et pour voir le garagiste qui nous a change les joints de la boite de transfert. Lui aussi il nous a fait de la *****. Il n a rien voulu savoir Ne pas aller chez Autoland a Marrakech. On a passe la nuit de dimanche dans le superbe riad de jany et philippe que l on remercie pour leur accueil.

... my last morning and lunch on a rooftop near the Minaret storks - I finally don't get lost.
Suss out & use the airport bus (D20) on my personal no taxi vendetta and flight home straight forward and on time - still think easyJet is a shop with an airline attached.

On balance I'd pick Fes as the best of the 3 cities; Marrakesh is just rather too clinically touristy for m

... summit as a challenge till Andrea puts him right, although she can't make the a/c work....
Back at Fantasia & another wander of the souks which gets me the haircut I probably should have got before we left. BTW, I've never seen so many barbers (as opposed to Berbers) in one place.
We joined 2 other On the Go groups and partook of the inevitable meal in the square before more souk wandering. Back in a heavy tourist area is a severe adjustment from living with the ...

... is organised by On the Go and we are a group of four with a leader (translator) and a cook.
As to be expected, everyone in marrakech is 'my friend' but why would I want to be 'henna'd' or buy piles of junk?
Marrakech is very clean and does not feel at all like North Africa but then it does have wall-to-wall tourist

... d Ouzoud superbe site mais trop touristique a notre goût.
Jeudi direction le pont naturel tres beau site. De retour au camping
nous avons fait la rencontre Nathalie et Franck. Comme nous ils ont
un land et ils sont parti pour un an de voyage. Petit apero du
dimanche 'comme a la maison' et vu l heure on a mange au resto du
camping 'je parle pour le soir'. Lundi RTT et mardi nous voilà
parti ...

... continued through the park and existed near La Koutoubia; Marrakech's most revered mosque. Like almost all mosque's in Morocco, non-muslims are forbidden access; although you can get rather close to the mosque and have access to the wonderful rose garden adjacent to the mosque. It must be said the areas here were very clean, the gardens cared for with great care. We witnessed gardeners and cleaners constantly at work, cleaning up the mess tourists were leaving behind perhaps.After exploring ...

... pretty but its unified architectural appearance of pink stucco-covered adobe buildings throughout the Medina (old walled city) give it a unique and exotic look, one that also carries over largely to the more modern Ville Nouvelle outside the Medina walls. Marrakech was a major stop on the so-called "hippie trail" in 1960s and 1970s and is now seemingly overrun with tourists, short-term visitors on cheap Easy Jet flights from Britain ...

Well, i'm back in Marrakech again, having just gotten off an all night bus ride that was hell on earth for someone trying to get some sleep. After the camel trek Aidan and I both wanted to get back to civilisation asap so we bid Lee adeiu (sp? nick should be able to correct me) and hopped the bus back together. During a 6 hour stopover in Erfoud, Aidan and I somehow managed to introduce ourselves to the local pint-sized ...