Golden Tulip Farah

... Arabic?  No.  speak French?  No.  Speak Spanish?  No.  Oh no...we couldn't communicate!  Hotel Golden Tulip - okay, they understood that - 150 Durhams - phew, we made it there!   While checking into the hotel and ...

... some tea and a few people did stay for about 20 minutes longer. Drove around the city again and stopped at the hotel Farah Golden Tulip for lunch. This was a very impressive 4 star hotel some distance from the Jemma el Fna; we stayed there from ...

Marrakech is a lovely city -  it is known as "The Red City" due to the colors of its buildings and it is more modern and has more to offer tourists in some ways than other Moroccan cities I've seen (e.g. hop on/off bus tours, golf courses, ...

Rabat is located at the mouth of the river Bu Regreg, opposite another city, Sale. These two cities were trading posts of the Phoenicians and Carthaginians more than 2500 years ago, until the Romans colonized it. Over time, various Berber tribes fought ...

What a punctual group! The bus pulls away from the hotel in Casablanca exactly at 9am, our designated start time. The drive to Rabat isn't long, and our guide fills it with interesting stories about Morocco’s past, its four Imperial Cities, its ...

Many tours to Morocco don't even bother to spend a night in Casablanca, as it isn’t perhaps the best initial impression of the country. But I feel it is a good place to catch our collective breath after the long journey and prepare for the ...

Enjoyed a fun birthday weekend with my mom is enchanting ...

On the way to Rabat we visited the ancient ruins at Chellah, otherwise known as Sala Colonia. Chellah is a necropolis complex of the ancient Romans who inhabited the area and also a medieval ruins of a Muslim mosque and royal tombs.  When we reached ...

When Mustafa asked us the time we wanted to wake up on Monday we told him around 11, he told us that he set something up for us at 9 AM, how rude!  It's okay, he was trying to help.  So, we got up and boarded a bus to go find some camels.  ...

We got to sleep in!  No excursions today!  Boy do I miss the days where I sleep in - I don't think I've done that for a number of years.  Well, actually, I'm lying - I do that over the holidays when Mommy and Daddy are nice enough to let ...

It was veryyyyyy difficult, but we succeeded at waking up at 6 AM!  We ran quickly to get another little hunny bun thing and then got on the bus for Essaouira!  I wish I could tell you what happened on the way to Essaouira, what sights we saw, ...