Mansour

on part pour 2 jours de ballade dans les gorges d'Ait Mansour et nuit en bivouac dans ...

... these inflated prices (and one without a swat toilet for Leonie). Just as we almost gave up hope we came upon the Mansour hotel......granted the rooms were nothing flash but it was cheap, cheerful and a great source of information.   The ...

... Park (Ron Seyb, a trip like ours is calling you…). We arrived at the lovely, welcoming Dallas home of the Cooney-Mansour family late in the afternoon and jumped almost immediately into their pool – we’ve been blessed with clear, sunny ...

... . Saturday today so the banks were closed. Luckily there is a flexi teller attached to the bank on Rue Dhar Smen, the street Bab Mansour faces, so I withdrew 1,500D using my Visa card, then went back to the room and settled the bill – 2,245D which ...

... watch my step as there were already three people sleeping on the floor beside a pile of backpacks, and in another room were Mansour's two friends who were still awake and playing computer games. After shaking their hands, they set up my blanket on the ...

... expensive cafe where an espresso costs 30D, more than double what it would cost elsewhere.   Continued west along Yacoub el Mansour and managed to find a place that actually sold alcohol! I celebrated by buying a ring pull bottle of French red called ...

... finished due to the death of the architect, and shortly after, in 1199, the death of the Almohad sultan, Yacoub al-Mansour, who commissioned the buildings. Today the carved red sandstone minaret stands in a plaza once covered by the mosque.  Its ...

... grandiosity.  Beco,ing neglected; it was only in 1917 that an aerial photographer saw this great place, where Mansour's mother's huge mausoleum contains many tombs, decorated from above by painted and carved ceilings and fine intricate plasterwork ...

... facades and washing hanging from windows, gaps in the pavement, wooden doorways and one-way traffic.  Eventually we found the Bab Mansour and with plenty of time to spare, went inside a souq area nearby, down about ten steps into a market place ...

... by a swarm of herrings who have set up camp on it's outer walls and turrets. Saaidan's tombs, around the corner, housed Al-Mansour tomb and some other 60 odd more Saaidan's and noblemen. The tombs escaped pillaging due to the successor's superstitions of ...