Marrakech Resort

... well, and retracing some of our steps from the first days of our trip. The hotels we stayed in were first rate resort hotels (except for a wonderful businessman's hotel in the heart of the new town in Tunis) and the Tunisian food was delicious. ...

Marrakech is a very busy city, with a famous center square. When you visit the square its like your going through a maze backwards, you start standing in the middle, in a big square, then you go off through little lines of shops. You need to keep all your ...

... way to go, and by about noon we found ourselves in the back of a late model Mercedes heading East out of Marrakech. In addition to the ski resort we had set our sights on, there was also a string of small villages and towns on the way into the mountains ...

... -232e# Check out this lovely photo slide show from our trip. We arrived early morning in Casablanca and had a car to take us to Marrakech and tired from the flight we pretty much slept the whole way. All the sudden the car stopped and the driver told us ...

... electricity, which is a bit unreliable in these parts. The things we take for granted. We head off along the shore line, passing resort hotels. Young blokes putting deck chairs out for tourists. We follow a path, and end up near a rubbish dump, going down ...

... code at such an early hour. Anyways, our 6.30am flight left East Mids on time and we arrived ahead of schedule in Marrakech (go Ryanair). Ryanair only had 10 visas inboard and so for those lucky few, they stormed through passport control. For the rest of ...

... scray, complicated and confusing local transit options. We got into Marrakech around 8pm. This time we booked the Equity Point in Marrakech. It's a small chain with hostels in Spain and Asia. We paid 180dh which includeed breakfast. The place was huge. ...

... the everyday things I take for granted in this case: water and toilet paper. Nine hours on the bus we arrive early evening in Marrakech and let off at Place Djemaa El Fnaa. I check back into Equity Point for one more night as I was leaving for Madrid ...

... drinking games which was quite hilarious. After a couple of hours exploring the little streets of Essouira in the morning we drove back to Marrakech only to be greeted by even more rain! Boo.. and it was cold!!  We went out to the main square, ...

... concierges about what we should do while in Morocco, and they gave us a few great ideas! They apparently have connections all throughout Marrakech, because in a matter of minutes they had a bus ready to take us to the center of town where we ate our first ...

... exactly, unfortunately it's in French so it might as well (and indeed might) be explaining rocket science.  Partly as a last resort and partly because our new friend has attached himself to us in a manner that is not easily or freely ...

... cool there besides, so we stay at Kasbah Zineb about 15kms inland (we hear that it's 51 degrees in Marrakech, and probably much the same here). It's a sort of resort and has a pool, so it's nice to lounge around there during the day, then go into ...

... the battle field. Not forgetting to promote "Sense". ...and "Simplicity". The Challengers on the stage. Our presentation will be done here tomorrow. Our aim of course, is to go to Marrakech. Who doesn't want to? My first nametag strap, from Philips. ...

... . The south appeared more like a developing country than the cosmopolitan hustling and bustling ways of Casablanca and Marrakech. It finally felt like I was really experiencing something new, underdevelopment much different than that of Africa - darker in ...

... about morocco... Travelling alone can be rather daunting, but this didnīt last long for me. On the flight from Manchester to Marrakech I met two English girls, from Yorkshire - Alison & Nicola. They very nicely took me under their wing, and a ...