Riad Laksour
Travel Blogs from Marrakech
Carne, carne, CARNE!! The food (and drink) blog
... del dia" (literal translation: daily menu. Actual meaning: this is all we could find in the kitchen so take it or go hungry). Our kindly English vegetarian friend Anna is offered some of our new Dutch friend's food, which she graciously accepts. She then repeatedly offers him some of her food, (we think 5 times). Eventually he looks back at her, slightly annoyed, and in a loud abrupt voice with Dutch accent, booms "FOR WHAT PURPOSE??". Awkwardness ensues and internal ...
Toubkal
... in the field of travel. It was launched in 2012 with the objective of taking adventurous visitors off the beaten track to experience the beauty and unique character of Morocco. Flexible, friendly, and focussed on your objectives and requirements, Toubkal traveling provides a complete service for all styles of journey around one of the Moroccan's most appealing travel destinations.
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Marrakech 2010
... your hands.
We arrive to Mezourga after 12 hours by bus. When we arrive, the bereber ( the people who lives in a desert ) lend us a camel for each one. Then, we and our camels start a route to dunes of the desert. Two hours later we arrive to haima's ( is a place in a desert like a big camping tent where the people eat and sleep ). Around midnight the berebers talked about histories of the desert wolfs and ...
From gondolas to camels
... to the stall to be polite and end up buying something they don't want...don't need....at ten times its' real value. We saw a National Geographic documentary in Hong Kong...big coincidence....a pommy made a documentary of Marrakesh market scammers....very interesting and compulsory viewing for anyone going there.....we knew about "guides" ....."helping you find places"....but the documentary had an undercover camera and showed how the "scammers" work in teams....we had been approached ...
It's the stuff Movies are made of.
... walking along a motorbike came up behind us. This wasn't uncommon as there was often bikes on the street that we were moving out of the way for. He slowly nudged in between Belinda and Mike. We split in two and let him through. Ben was thinking 'that's pretty inconsiderate' (we were walking on a rather large path and he could have easily gone round us). Belinda thought 'oh, my bag has caught on his bike' I was about ...