Camping Casablanca

An overland camping adventure across Africa for 8 months. Fun or hell... only time will tell.

The tale of a short camping trip to the Omani Mussandam Peninsula.

A 19 day trip through Morocco, exploring the Imperial cities of Rabat, Fez, Meknes, and Mararakesh, camping in the Sahara Desert, and learning about the Berber and Tuareg cultures.

... at the seaside town of Essaouira; and finally spending a few days in Marrakech, Morocco's cosmopolitan epicenter. Before we left Casablanca, we made the essential stop at the Hassan II Mosque-the 3rd largest mosque in the world. In honour of Hassan ...

... all happy to have the comfort of a toilet block and indeed hot shower - yippee (there's nothing like it after a few days bush camping...). Only small glitch was that there was only 1 shower for all 22 of us, and in addition we bumped into a rival over ...

... which is why I wasn't drinking and went to bed early and felt pretty rotten on waking. Had to be gone by 7.30 to get to Casablanca on time and after parking up Nala by the Mosque the Kiwis, Aussies, Lars and Nancy all piled into taxis to go to the Senegal ...

Well today was thankfully a rest day spent at Camping Ocean Blue since more and more of us were coming down with pootomouth. I went to bed with layers on and woke up with the sweats stripping of and with several bathroom runs. Felt better today though ...

... it.  Same as before, without that nasty incident at the end.  Then we went out and did some shopping at the Casablanca markets.  A little different.  But the haggling was the same, which I enjoyed. We retired early that night.  So ...

... robes and headdress but that and the beads were not enough to coax us to travel further away from Spain. It was decided that Casablanca was the next destination. This meant bus travel again and 9.50 dirham each bought us tickets on a second class bus. ...

... for the rest of the day. We crossed the Rif via Tetouan to reach the freeway to Casablanca and stopped at Mohammedia in an "international" camping where we socialised with our Moroccan neighbours exchanging Spanish beers for cheap wine cut with water. ...

... a good shampoo and scrub. So far Morocco has been a blast. With Ali Baba in fine form, visas in our passports and bush camping a success, we were living the dream. So off I go, headed for Casablanca and Marrakesh, with Ali Baba by my side. Bring it ...

... we arrived at Villa Gesell in the darkness and the local bus took us 15 mins away from town and dropped us off at camping Casablanca: aka the wilderness and the darkest and most lonely sandy road we have ever seen. We did not accept the price of 44 ...

... düşündüğüm gibi bir sürü pahalı marka butiği menemen testisi gibi yan yana dizilmişler. Oralarda Casablanca diye bir restoran gördüm.Aslında ne alaka ? ama emin olmak için içeri girip ortalığı ...

After the luxury of camping at the site near Casablanca we hit the road back northwards towards our next destination the Roman ruins of the city of Volubilis. It was a fairly long drive before we arrived mid afternoon at the site and met up with our ...

Vítejte v Praze Although Camping Jolly advertised a shuttle service to Treviso (airport we departed from), it only ran when it wasn't ferrying people to downtown Venice, which was a 1 hour gap at lunch time! As we needed to be at the airport by 11am that ...

... Rich at the wheel) took us north-east through a landscape of dramatic arid hills and into the green, irrigated valley of Casablanca, a fairly new wine growing region - established about 20 years ago - and renowned for its white wines, especially Sauvignon ...

... in London in the late 1800s and there were many more ladies of ill repute so we made a very sharp exit. Leaving Casablanca, we stayed in a small remote village called Romani on the way to Volubilis. The local policemen were welcoming and when we ...

... on the way back, rather than doing a night bus to Casablanca. Of course, this means we lose out on some time in Casablanca - the original plan involved arriving at 7 AM and having the entire day there.  The new plan means only having a half day at ...

... bother you anywhere near as much as the Egyptians though and are very friendly. They also have a killer sense of humour! We started in Casablanca the day before we started our tour. We went to Rick’s Cafe, which is a replica of the cafe in the movie ...