Royal Atlas Hotel Morocco

... apartments was a good will of hotel owners). We sit to the bus, got our cameras ready and departed... First stop was Royal Atlas Hotel & Spa 5*. Well, it's very rich, very pretentious... Red wood is everywhere around you... And that is what annoyed ...

... Barbary Apes on the Rock, Gib will be British. Snow alongside the road Ski runs outside Irfane The Atlas Mountains in Morocco have three distinct ranges, the Rif which runs roughly west/east just inland from the Mediterranean Sea, ...

... hotels, the Ibis Mousaffir chain of hotels are the best bet. To be found right outside every major train station in Morocco, they offer comfortable rooms, a good breakfast every morning and a luxurious swimming pool to laze by, whenever you need. So ...

... beautiful and the tajines on display were tempting.  I may have to pick one up and ship it home before I leave Morocco. After a few hours of wandering through the Medina, our guides arranged for an authentic Moroccan meal for us at a restaurant that ...

... on the terrace.  They were both from Germany, and had cycled about 1000km through the desert and mountains of Morocco.  We talked a while, shared some insight into our backgrounds and reasons for being in Morocco, and then we parted ways. So, ...

... conquests. I prove once again my astute judgment of character by getting absolutely none of them correct. (Examples: "I once lived with the Royal Family of Bahrain" or "I was staying at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas the day it burned down." or "I was once ...

... awards ceremony and then proceed to dinner at Dar Yacout – simply the best restaurant in all of Morocco, and favored by the King himself. The royal service and sumptuous cuisine is truly a fitting conclusion to our tour of the Kingdom of ...

... before dinner. This was a standard 3 star hotel but it was like staying at the Ritz after Hotel Guynemer. And it had heating! Nights in Morocco are chilly this time of year.We found a traditional Moroccan restaurant down the ...

... most things are still substantially cheaper than in England. The palaces are towards the south of the medina, both uninhabited - there are a few royal palaces these days, but the public can't go in. The first was El Badi palace, which was the ruins of ...

... Christmas Dinner I´ve ever had but so enjoyable. Picnic over, we drove on to Meknes, one of the four Imperial cities of Morocco.  Meknes sits on a plateau at the foot of the Middle Atlas mountain range.  It was the Moroccan capital during the ...

... arising to eat breakfast and send off the remainder of the group, departing the hotel at 10am. As we leave the hotel, we barge clumsily in front of a Royal Princess. Who knew? There has been a huge event at this property all week having to do with the ...

... I got to bond with the other volunteers and talk to a nice Moroccan man who is a paleontologist in Chicago, but visits Morocco often. One of my favorite things about flying over the Atlantic and staying awake is watching the sunrise. It was beautiful, ...

... their hands. We throw some coins. They continue working in a heavy downpour. Continuing on we pass the oldest university in Morocco and the shrine of Moulay Idriss II. There is another shrine and then a visit to the place where woolen Moroccan carpets ...

... to be the heart of Meknes' Medina. The square was built by the sultan Moulay Ismail and was originally used for royal announcements and public executions. It now plays host to several restaurants, local traders and a number of kids playing football. ...

... my shoes back on, got my stuff together and walked off, leaving my laptop there.  I then got on the plane, flew to Morocco, checked in to the hotel, went to bed, went on a city tour 4 hours later and not until the next afternoon when I tried to work on ...

... of the West Wing to entertain me while I speculate about hw flat the area around Casablanca airport is, despite the hotel being named after the country's mountain range. *raises complementory cocktail with Royal Air Maroc voucher* To safe ...

... is no need for it.  I'm determined now to learn a new language within the year.  Today I managed to get a single bed hotel room with no problem at a whopping $5.50 a night.  I then did the usual walking around for hours.  I ...

... sit on a bus for 9 hours. Today we boarded a bus for Ouarzazate. It's a small mountain town, on the other side of the Atlas from Marrakech. Our bus ride ended at night, so we thought we'd get some zzzs aboard; we were wrong. The mountains are amazing. ...

... up some higher terraces to look down over the Derb Chouwara tanneries.  Reputed to be the largest of all the tanneries in Morocco, I was simply here to observe a bigger and more varied tannery than that seen in Marrakech.  With a much larger ...