Dar Limoun Amara Marrakech
71 derb Jemaa, Riad Zitoun Jdid Marrakech, Morocco
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Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel!
... with two ceramic bowls thrown in to sweeten the deal. So of you are in the market for a Moroccan rug, cut out the middle man and buy direct from the weavers! We made our way back to Ouazazate and figured we'd get a hotel in the middle of town closer to the local action. However, we found the road into the town center blocked off by the police. We followed some cars which seemed to know a way around only to find a police paddy ...
Across the Atlas to the Real Morocco
... 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
... it all off, it was generously adorned witn plenty of stained glass.
Before making it to the Palace we were distracted by snake charmers and folks with monkeys. We stopped at one of the snake charmer booths and took anfew pics and the attached vid. I find snakes repulsive but still have a strange fascination with them. I gave them the equivalent of a few bucks and they insisted on more. They poor guy next to us gave them about $20 and they still wanted more from him. Whih leads me to a ...
All Aboard the Marrakech Express!
... to chase a bunch of locals out of our assigned cabin to Marrakech. Once there we hopped into a taxi who gave the obligatory fare reeming to the main square, except he was supposed to drop us off two streets south so as to avoid the touts. After shaking off the touts and getting our bearings, we headed to our target hotel area and found a very nice newly built place. It was spotless, all marble, and friendly albiet a bit pricey at 400D per ...
Marrakech Day #3
... the details of the tour we had booked.
Then we had one more taxi ride of the day back into the medina to see Maison Tiskiwin, a large home owned by a Dutch anthropologist that he converted into a museum showing off numerous relics he has collected on his trips around North Africa. That was quite neat.
I walked Mom back to the silver shop where she had eyed a bracelet yesterday and left her at 5:00 to spend the next 2.5 hours shopping alone. ...



