Moroccan House Marrakech

... a beautiful Tagine, tortilla soup (to teach him a new recipe) and went to his mother's house for a glance at a traditional Moroccan house. We wanted to go out dancing, but the clubs cost 10€ just for entrance, which, when we were spending no more ...

... alleyways leading back to our hotel all the while dodging touts, scooters and motorbikes. Most of the riads ( traditional Moroccan house or palace) have an open to the sky interior courtyard that rooms open out onto and we have often wondered ...

... mountains in the distance. We stopped at a place where women make almond oil and marmelade from scratch and a real berber (moroccan) house where people actually lived (they were eating lunch as we toured their house, weird). Then we stopped on the ...

... exchanging money we searched the arrivals terminal for our cab driver.  Eventually we spotted a man holding a billboard reading "Riad Marrakech Rouge".  Considering it was our first time in Marrakech we opted to have the riad organize a taxi to ...

... Madrid right after Marrakech. I arrive in Marrakech Menara Airport at 5 pm. Expecting a prickly, desert-like heat, the climate in Marrakech was actually quite comfortable - it was sunny, but not sweaty; cool, but not cold. In fact, it was actually hotter ...

We left Heathrow on time, bound for Casablanca and a connecting quick flight to Marrakech. I was wide awake a couple of hours later when we dropped into Marrakech at twilight. I'd seen the red hills of Africa and the Mediterranean from the air. ...

... the room was just too big and my bed was too far from them to make a difference for me.   One recurring theme about Marrakech is that they REALLY like to haggle and bargain here. I tried asking how much a plain t-shirt was with 2 colors of printing ...

... nights in Marrakech as we passed through on our way to and from the desert. In the final analysis, Marrakech turned out to be our favorite Moroccan city, but after so many comings and goings the bloom was rapidly and predictable fading from the rose. ...

... not pass their smog tests in the late ‘70s have been shipped out here and are all operating full time in Marrakech and probably other North African cities. They are terrifying for foreigners on foot and pump out a remarkable amount of black smoke. ...

... the reservations I had about the country seemed to dissipate when we arrived at our hotel, the Le Meridien N'fis in Marrakech. They upgraded us to a wonderful suite overlooking the pool and promptly delivered a complimentary bottle of wine, large ...

... a royal guest house by the present King Mohammed VI. We then completed the Lonely Planet walking tour of Marrakech including the Museum of Moroccan Arts, Bab Fteuh Fondouq artisans’ courtyard (where Mom shopped for a silver bracelet), and the Dyers ...

... , and it wasn't the smoothest of starts!! He gave me his helmet, and drove like a complete maniac, criss-crossing the busy Marrakech streets - as from my previous post, in Morocco there are marked lanes, but the lines are not respected and the rule is, ...

... prostitutes (these are his only flaws, as far as we saw, and not the reasons why he is our favorite Moroccan). So, a quick two things about Marrakech.  First, the old part of the city (the medina) is completely functional, but it’s like time ...

... called Dar Marjana.  Dar means House of.  Marjana means Coral.  So we had dinner at the House of Coral.  It was a typical Moroccan meal, which means we sat around drinking cocktails for a while before being led into the eating ...

... ride, we grappled with many of the world's problems and then attempt to solve them.   Four hours later, we arrived in Marrakech, Dr. Kachani's home town.  We were picked up by a fellow veterinarian and friend of Dr. Kachani's for 28 ...

... otherwise, that the local bus is broken, not running, etc etc) we made our way through the Marrakech airport terminal. The architecture provided an intro to Moroccan ornament at an extreme scale. The terminal looks as though it were cut from one huge ...

... ; We have only been here for one day and I finally got up enough courage to go to a hammam - a traditonal bath house, and Josh took a Moroccan cooking class.  The hammam is quite an experience.  Most hammams are in the medinas and are quite the ...

... we spent in Morocco was fantastic. As we packed up all of our newly purchased Moroccan goods (I seriously could outfit a whole house with Moroccan things) and rearranged our bags numbers of times to make sure everything fit, I was excited to be heading on ...