Villa Warhol Marrakech

Confirming my ever-strong belief in fate and allworking out eventually, we ended up in Morocco right on time for the 2009 Marrakech Film Festival! As film fanatics, we hot-well, actually cold-footed it-from freezing cold Casa to Marrakech making it just in time for films galore...

Getting back to the Western world is weird after adventures in African countries like Mali and Senegal as it seems so different yet only a drive-or even briefer flight ...

... sta äventyr blev en tur till en moppe-marknad. Vi höjde andelen turister där med 100% och Karin höjde andelen kvinnor med ca 50%. Det blev ingen deal idag men efter lite funderande (som innefattade uppgifter från vår hotellvärd om att det tar 28 tim. med buss till gränsen mellan Marocko och Mauritanien) har vi kommit fram till moppe nog är det perfekta färdmedlet för oss. Imorgon fortsätter toffeljakten!

Massa kramar!

... 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 ...

Marrakech is most definitely my favorite city thus far. I hate to say it is also one of the most touristy places we have visited thus far. I wonder if maybe I just found it comforting to see people in shorts and tank tops again. We stayed in a camp site full of the usual wild cats but with a twist, we had about a dozen Peacocks. Simply stunning. Happy were we to find the campsite equipped with hot water and western toilets, but I do believe that the Spanish may have had their ...

... how much I love driving in buses or vans or cars. This drive went through the Moroccan desert, and it was so beautiful!

Marrakech was a bit intense. Barcelona is a city, but it's a city where I know at least one of the official languages. That was not true of Marrakech, where like the rest of Morocco the official languages are Arabic and French. I knew I was not in Kansas anymore when I woke up before sunrise because of the morning call to prayer. That's when it started to hit ...

... 1100; людей. Есть такие стран 85;ые созда 85;ия - назыв 72;ются турис 90;ы. Их можно и нужно обдир 72 ...

... 1081;те. Встан 00;те как вкопа 85;ные на Djemaa el-Fna и урони 90;е челюс 90;ь назем 00;. А если и правд 72; собер 77;т ...

... me so I gave her what was fair and then we left. Three of the girls went to another woman and an hour later when we were supposed to wash off the top layer, only my ink had come out and the other girls were left with designs that were barely noticeable. We had some good laughs about that. The next morning we were off bright and early. Everyone had orange juice at the airport because we knew we would never have the fresh stuff that cheap anywhere else.

... a small bit of the medina and then goes into the new town. It was a nice ride and being in the sun felt GREAT! We went back to the riad for some much needed rest. On the way back Steve noted that in one of the small shops down our street he had noticed brains on a plate that morning when we left and now they were gone..... someone ate the brains!!!! Gross! We also met up with the children of the neighborhood. They had these drum ...

... exercise room. We see the location of the bar, and look over a breakfast buffet that is superior to the offering at the previous hotel. I decide to book it, and we race back to the other hotel to inform the clients to get their luggage ready to check out of their rooms. The hotel manager is not very nice about us canceling the reservation and leaving, but we are already almost out the door. A quick swing by the new hotel has us drop our luggage as we commence our tour ...