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5/24/2013 – Essaouira Beautiful seaside village! Essaouira is one of the premier resort cities in Morocco, and it doesn’t take long to figure out why. The madina is small, but filled with high-quality goods for sale as well as the regular local markets and the wharf area contains about 20 stalls where you can pick …

    5/23/2013 – Ait Benhaddou On leaving Tinghir, we went to visit the second well-known gorge in the area, the Dades Gorge. It was a harrowing ride in, but a beautiful site to visit. We then drove a few hours further to Ait Benhaddou. This is a traditional ksar containing four kasbahs and being …

5/22/2013 – Tinghir Another longish day, waking up in the camel tent and getting on the road around 10 AM, we drove mostly through the desert to the city of Tinghir. Tinghir is home to both some stunning palmeries and is the entrance point to the road leading to one of two stunning gorges here, …

5/20/2013 – Merzouga We arrived at Merzouga after a 7-hour journey through the Atlas mountains and the edge of the desert. The landscape was stunning, switching from dry desert nothingness as far as the eye can see to Oasis villages, where palm trees cover the entire flood plain of the river and a ribbon of …

5/19/2012 – Fez The Moroccon city of Fez dates back to the seventh century A.D. And is the oldest of Morocco’s major cities. It has the largest medina we have seen, literally covering the whole center of the vast city. If you recall from past posts, the medina is the old, walled, city center with …

Wow! We have been in Morocco for two days and it is fantastic! After an early morning departure from the Azores, we hopped through Lisbon and boarded a sad looking prop plane, no doubt the flagship of Royal Air Moroc, and on to Casablanca. Everything was fairly seemless, aside from the fact the international arrival …