Azrou Hotels - Reviews and Rates

After a very long flight, disappointment in Meknes and miloes of driving through northern Morocco it was time to stop and spend the night. Zaid was a good interpreter-guide. He went into the hotel and made the arrangements to spend the night. My room was very nice with a double bed and full bath. It was small but quaint. The hotel itself was ver...

This morning started slowly with a sleep in on our rooftop and numerous coffees at the restaurant next door. We traded cigarette lighters with our friendly waiter who had a collection of 149 lighters from all over the world. Nadine and i did a deal on two pairs of leather genie shoes that are well made and have turned up ends at the front. We tr...

At check out time, our intestines and ourselves walk out of the hotel and star our way to Meknes. (Parking in the street with one of the "guardians"= 40Dh for 2 days. We were not able to negotiate that. Just out of Fes there is a mall (Marjane) and we stop to buy some aquarius which is wonderful to rehydrate. No food yet for me, my intestines st...

Figured I would do one more small entry before I leave for the weekend. Haven't been doing much except riding the moto around and studying. One of the cadets purchased one in Fes and we went to Azrou to get him insured. This is more of a picture post in light of the fact that I am thoroughly exhausted and am departing for Marrakesh tomorrow afte...

A few days ago I was discussing with my Dad the shape of the international stop sign (an octagon). But as we drove through Azrou today, Dad decided to ignore everything he had told me and drove straight through a Moroccan stop sign (an octagon with an Arabic symbol inside that looks like two men with three heads in a canoe). We were stopped by t...

Morocco's topography is dominated by several mountain ranges running in a southwest to northeast direction, namely the Middle Atlas, High Atlas, and Anti-Atlas ranges, that separate the Sahara Desert from the relatively green and fertile Mediterranean climate zone in the north. The Atlas Mountains are largely barren or shrub-covered and rocky be...

We've found this cool forest where monkeys are feed by humans, sounds silly but it's kind of funny to see a monkey drinking from a bottle of water. As all touristic places in Morocco, tourism is exploted and you can find people selling peanuts and fruit to feed the monkeys. We got some peanuts but this other guy got peaches, since monkeys aren't...

A middle Atlas repose between Fes and Marrakesh, I stopped here to purge the city dust from my pores. Walking through the forest and bald ridges, I remembered that I like the country better than the city.

For some reason, my sanity left me and I thought that it would be a good idea to go on a school organized hiking trip...I lived to regret my momentary lapse of judgement as the hike was 6 hours long and we commenced it by climbing up a really big mountain... However on the plus side, I saw some great views of the area and I fed some Barbary Apes...

We got a taxi to the bus station this morning and as we got out of it there was a bus driving off with the tout shouting Azrou, Azrou, Azrou. We jumped on it but when wed asked yesterday the touts had said 9am, not 8.45, but it suited us anyway. We checked the times of the buses to rissiani when we arrive, and there was one going at midniht whic...