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johnsakura Says: Every year theres a mousseum with tuaregs and live market and music activities.Apart from this and many active markets and suq only theres a palace left to see in town. the Palace of Caid Dahman Takni. This is locate don the streets behind the Hotel la Jeunesse, although it...
ptitetoile Says: Wel, it was a very impressive experience to see it! Very narrow streets... full of vegetables and fruits and kinds of meat...and also a lot of bugs!!!! Better not to pay attention to it if you want to buy something :-)
Hotels in Guelmim: Hotels in Guelmim
johnsakura Says: Hotels here are a bit pricy due to the large amount of tourist used to come here to see what they are made to think by tourist operators in bigger cities as the "real blue men" and the fascinating (which is not that fascinating) camel market.If you are coming on Friday...
Street Cafes-Guelmim: Street Cafes-Guelmim
johnsakura Says: There are many restaurants and street cafes in the new part of town, like in any other town in Morocco. Usually theres a important street which has a ouple of road restaurants for people traveling, and in this case, Guelmim stays on the way of the Western Sahara so many...
Get a ride on a Western Sahara old cargo truck
johnsakura Says: If yo intend to go south to western sahara you can get a ride on a Western Sahara old cargo truck. watch out and dont let yourself be killed..Appart from the normal means of transportation you have ocasional transportation in trucks like this that usually only local people...
johnsakura Says: You can get there by bus or grand taxi depending from where you are coming from actually. so you have to take in consideration that grand taxis going south to western sahara can transport you there from major cities.From the gare routiere by BUS in Bou Izakarn road you have...
From Guelmin to Marrakesh by bus
Bigjones Says: Many bus companies can bring you to Marrakesh but the most reliable ones are CTM and Supratours. We also tried SATAS but after reading our experience in Essaouira, you'll understand why you'd better not travel with that company ;-)In Guelmim, the CTM and Supratours offices...
johnsakura Says: This camel market still and only subsists by travel agencies that pack tourist in busses from Agadir and take them to see theatrical con men making drama for tourist to see. usually buses arrive about 8:30am and 9am and the market starts 6am. So if you still which to see a...
How to cook a delicious tajine - Final Step
Bigjones Says: At laaaast !!! Four hours later, our tajine is finally ready. It was midnight. Sarah woke up (she was having a little nap, Ramadan is indeed pretty tiring), I stopped smoking the "chicha" (narguile), we were all ready to taste our meal with some Moroccan bread and ... our...
How to cook a delicious tajine - Step 2
Bigjones Says: Buy some good meat (chicken or lamb, but no pork please !)Euh ... actually ... may be you can try to find another butcher shop than this one on the picture !Don't forget the olives, currants and different spices (coriander, safran, curcuma, paprika, cumin, ginger, ras el...
johnsakura Says: Yes, again i refer the camel market. Althouth you're not going to see anything more than almost a theater for tourist to see, it somehow can be interesting. If you're not able to SEE THE REAL thing in any other country you should at least came here and see how does it look...
johnsakura Says: Little oasis with hot springs where you can have bath sepparated in small compounds separated also by sex. the water in the women's part is about 26º celsius of temperature, and for men is 10º higher. hot hot.This islocated 15km from the town and you can easily get there by...
How to cook a delicious tajine - Step 1 bis
Bigjones Says: An alternative to the souk : you can also buy your vegetables (and/or meat and/or fish) from one of the street vendors ...
How to cook a delicious tajine - Step 1
Bigjones Says: Go to the "souk " (market) and buy all necessary ingredients : potatoes, tomatoes, zucchinis, onions, carrots, etc.
How to cook a delicious tajine - Step 3
Bigjones Says: After you peeled the potatoes, the zucchinis and the carrots, cut them into pieces, made your peas boil, sliced the onions, you can pour some oil in the terracotta recipient called "tajine", add the meat, the onions and the spices and allow the dish to simmer. When the meat...
ptitetoile Says: To eat a very good tajine... there is no better way than cooking it ourselves with the instructions of a master in this art!You just need 3 or 4 hours to do it!!!!! So...patience is very important.... We did it while we were tired and starving (I guess you can see it on the...
johnsakura Says: You can notice an advertising of the King Mohammad VI on the right side of the picture. Propaganda here is very important as you are already in Western Sahara.
johnsakura Says: Architecture in town.
North entrance gate to Guelmim
johnsakura Says: North entrace gate to Guelmim. You cam mptoce the town's name written in arabic on the right side of the gate.
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Go to the "souk " (market) and buy all necessary ingredients : potatoes, tomatoes, zucchinis, onions, carrots, etc.
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Q: OKay... is Tajine, Camel? if not can you please email me back.. i am very curious.. okay.. bye!!!
A: A Tajine is a conical cooking pot and also the name of a dish, ie; Chicken Tajine, Fish Tajine, and possibly even Camel Tajine !!
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The second stop of our trip was in Guelmin (or Goulimine) where we were invited to spend a few days by our friend K. who lives there. Guelmin was once an important caravan town. There's not much to...
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Guelmim or Goulimine or even Gulimin, is a small town recently overcorwed by tourists coming from Agadir to see its Saturday morning Camel Market now maybe only working beacuse travel agencies still...
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After one evening in Agadir, we were invited to the house of our friend and we spent some time in this peaceful town without tourists... There was not a lot of things to see... just the real life of a...
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