D o any pre-arrival research on Morocco – where to go, what to see etc. – and you’re eventually going to read about & see pictures from blue & white Chefchaouen where I’ve just spent the last three nights. There’s not a whole lot to this place – a...
F es was nowhere near as exhausting as it could have been. I guess I was prepared, having already spent 31 days in Morocco before arriving in the city, one of Morocco’s 4 imperial capital cities, a few days ago. It has been a fun few days not to mention a...
I was initially only planning on a day trip to Moulay Idriss, a small village some 30 kilometres from Meknes in northern Morocco. But a last-minute decision to pack up my stuff and spend a night here instead was made in Meknes yesterday morning over breakfast, a...
A fertile plain in northern Morocco is a bit of a strange, random place to find a Roman outpost but the remnants left standing here today at Morocco’s best preserved archaeological site leave us in no doubt that yes indeed, the Romans were here nice and snug in their...
Y esterday I was among the Erg Chebbi dunes of the Moroccan Sahara and today I’m in a city, that city being Meknes, one of Morocco’s 4 imperial capitals (the others being Marrakesh, Fes, my next stop, & Rabat, the present-day capital)....
I’m in Midelt, a town in central Morocco in the high plains between the Middle Atlas and High Atlas mountain ranges. There’s not a whole lot going on here – I’m stopping off for the night en route to Meknes, my next stop in Morocco – and...
I’m in a town called Er Rachidia in northeastern Morocco. I’m not a million miles (60 kilometres or so) from the closed border with Algeria & even closer to the Moroccan Sahara, my next port of call on this my ongoing Moroccan odyssey. The last week of...
I’ve been off the radar for a few days. It’s not like I was off the beaten track & out in the middle of nowhere. I wasn’t, it just felt that way. Since I left the hammada landscape of Ouarzazate a few days ago, I have spent 2 nights in two different...
Kasbah, found throughout the Moroccan pre-Saharan southern oasis & especially in the regions fertile date palm oases & valleys, are typically fortified citadels, something like a castle where everyone could take refuge in times of trouble. Amazingly these...
My Moroccan adventures continue. I’ve crossed over the Atlas Mountains into what is classed as the southern oasis, the Moroccan pre-Sahara. Yes, the Sahara dunes and the border with Algeria are not too far away & I’m slowly making my way there. The landscape...
