Archive for the ‘Morocco’ Category

balak, balak! the Sound of the Fez Medina…

…Kasbahs and Camels is the name of the tour we are about to embark on… sounds rather exotic doesn’t it! In fact it commences tomorrow morning, which is why we are flying out of Fez 19:45 this evening, to Ouarzazate via Casablanca. That will be an interesting flight I’m sure. We spent all of yesterday [...]

There really are Kasbahs and Camels in Morocco…

This is straight from the Kasbahs and Camels Family Adventures dossier… The tiny villages which lie in the valleys and cling to the flanks of the Anti-Atlas Mountains are inhabited by the hardy and hospitable Berber people. The few rough tracks which venture through this massive rock barrier eventually dissolve away into the Sahara sands [...]

Tough like Berber in Marrakech…

`looky looky shifty shifty come have a butchers`… …cries from in and around the souk {market} of Marrakech What fun we had today. Apparently I`m `tough like Berber` in relation to negotiating, and had a really good time doing it too I must say. Although I did need to spend some time discussing the fine [...]

Beautiful Berber People, high in the ante-Atlas Mountains…

I am sitting in the foyer of the Hotel Les Armandiers, Trafout, at the base of the Ante Atlas Mountains, “borrowing” their wifi! as you do… We have just spent 24 hours high in the mountains, in a traditional Berber village. What an experience! Definitely a highlight to date. Even though the accommodation and toilette [...]

Fez Morocco – A riad in the medina

Well, wasn’t yesterday eventful! It all started out as an ordinary traveling day on our adventure & then something happened. Not sure what, but it manifested like this… We left in plenty of time to get through customs in Gibraltar, & made our way to Algeciras Spain to drop off the car (that Karsten had [...]