Vatel Hotel Golf And Spa Marrakech

... After a stressful spell though the buzz of Marrakech makes me appreciate all we have experienced and everything us Westerners have even more. Morocco is more amazing than i remembered with its incredible colours, culture and continuous backdrop of distant mountain ranges.

Reality beckons as we are back by Chrimbo but for now we are losing ourselves in all sorts of surreal and out-standing cinema in the sunny but still cold capital...

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Efter att ha tillbringat natten på en kall flygplats i Barcelona var det otroligt skönt att igår eftermiddag äntligen komma fram till Marrakesh och få vila hela eftermiddagen på vårt toppenmysiga riad (typ hotell) "Marhaba”. Mot våra förväntningar var Marrakesh kallt och regnigt, så vi fick plocka fram elementet i rummet och dra på oss långkalsongerna.

Idag är det fint soligt väder och vi ...

... through. This is not your average tour. An overlanding tour is you plus twenty or more of your new closest friends living off an overlanding truck, a huge truck with a passenger compartment with flaps as windows and well worn seats all facing inward. Cooking gear and truck stuff goes in the undercarriage compartments while our stuff, tents and food go in compartments found under the seats and floors of the cab. Essentially you are hauled from place to ...

... on the toilets since there were no toilet seats, but you can't be picky when it comes to these things. Well at least we would have hot showers for three days.

It really sucks to have such a weak stomach in Africa. I spent the better part of our first day in Marrakech worshiping the porcelain goddess, so I missed the first day in the city but felt well enough to go to the Marjane with Summer and Gavin where we loaded up on lunch supplies and had some incredibly delicious ...

... getting out of the buses was play soccer with the kids, of course! I have now played soccer in both a dry river bed with the kids in Yorkin, Costa Rica and in an empty lot (later used for community prayer) with the kids in Amzmiz, Morocco. It really is the game that ties the world together...so I should probably get better at it haha! From the game, the group divided into homestays. I volunteered to go with the first homestay, and I was thankful for the rest of the weekend that I did ...

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... As soon as we sat down there was bread put in front of us, with plates of Moroccan salad, spicy tomato paste and olives on the side. I ordered some fried aubergines (awesome), and vegetable tagine... which turned out to be a stew of some indiscernible vegetables... mainly yams and carrots, possibly. With each seperate dish it was ...

... intricate mosaics, detailed ceiling carvings. Men and women are buried separately. Servants are entombed outside. Muslims do not believe in cremation so everyone is buried. People are buried on their sides facing Mecca. We then rode over to the Bahia Palace. Again, the detail work is absolutely amazing. Even the ceilings are decorated with cedar carvings, mosaic, and intricate paintwork. The palace had a plethora of fountains - likely because ...

... to buy anything but just walking around the covered mazes. You realise pretty quick that a lot of people living and working in the medina are on the poor side of the equation. When you are staying in the Medina you get to see the best and worst of it - you see the young ladies putting out the washing on the roof terraces every morning, wedding celebrations going on in the streets and the various fruit and vege sellers plying their trade. We could not be more in the ...