Imlil - a good-bye night and Gaby's birthday

Yesterday late in the evening we said goodbye to the group, because we and Ani are returning to Barcelona, ​​and the remaining seven people of the group are going on to tame Morocco. This time in the desert. With regret we were parting with friends celebrating Gaby's birthday. The hosts provided u...

Imlil in the Atlas mountains

Imlil  - a Berber village is situated some  100 km from Marrakesz. This is a beautiful place which is very important turistically as it shows still another face of Morroco. Here is some information from the Wikipedia: "The region of the High Atlas Mountains is very different from the rest of Moro...

Towards the Atlas

From Marrakesh, in rented cars, we set off towards the Atlas. It is not an easy task to control a ten-people group, so we left two hours behind the schedule, which effected in very late arrival at a mountain guest house,  the Morrocan style. Ahmed – the owner and manager of the place welcomed  us ...

A good-bye party

We bid farewell to Marrakesh at the invitation of Frederick and Maud's - a French-Moroccan couple- in their delightful home in a village near Marrakesh. It's a real riad, the original Moroccan house with all elements of such constructions, except that it was furnished by Frederick himself - an inte...

Last stroll down the Marrakesh streets

Today it was the last stroll down the streets of  Marrakesh which offers its tourists much more than we could see in three days. Sightseeing always means compromising: what to choose, what to see, what to give up, and what to leave for another time ... Our photos should at least to some extent sho...

The Medina - Marraakesh's Old Town

It was raining all day, and in the evening  storm erupted with thunderstorm which we have not heard for a long time! Bravely we were walking along nearly empty streets of the Medina (the old town surrounded by walls made of red clay). We tried to protect ourselves from the rain under canopies of th...

Jardins Majorelle

After a Moroccan breakfast, on a beautiful sunny morning we went to Jardins Majorelle which is one of the twentieth century’s most mysterious gardens. “Jardins Majorelle is a place of rare individual expressions and mystical force. The garden is an overpowering abundance of vegetal shapes and forms...

To Morocco

From Barcelona we are flying to Casablanca budget line - Vueling. We are now travelling in a group of four, besides  us -  Gaby and Ani – two Argentinians. A combination of local and long distance trains let us arrive in Marrakech at 01:00 am. Not everything went so smoothly, because credit cards a...