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Djamaa El Fna - Square   Marrakesh

Djamaa El Fna - Square, Marrakesh

 136 Reviews  We just returned from a phenomenal trip of Marrakesh. Al Moussika was our base to explore the medina and for trips to the coast and to the Atlas mountains. The riyad is a carefully and tastefully... 

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Hassan II Mosque   Casablanca

Hassan II Mosque, Casablanca

 78 Reviews  One of the main attractions Casablanca has is the Mosque of Hassan II, the 7th largest mosque in the world. Besides being so huge, it is also unique in that it is built so that part of it hangs over... 

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Kasbah   Agadir

Kasbah, Agadir

 6 Reviews  Ruins of fortress that lies on a mountain above the city of Agadir. The word KASBAH is in arabic an means fortress. It was built in the 1500-century but was destroyed in the big earthquake in 1960.... 

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Majorelle Gardens   Marrakesh

Majorelle Gardens, Marrakesh

 45 Reviews  We loved Marjorelle Gardens. Please check out my travelogue for the full story. I enjoyed it because of the vibrant colours, cactus gardens, water lily pond and quaint shady paths. The best way to... 

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Old Medina   Casablanca

Old Medina, Casablanca

 20 Reviews  The old part of Casablanca, within a set of city walls and known as the Medina, is surprisingly easy to miss. You could wander around the city centre for a few hours, then take a taxi out to the big... 

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Bird Valley   Agadir

Bird Valley, Agadir

 5 Reviews  The Birds Valley or Vallée des Oiseaux is not only an aviary, but also a small zoo. This zoo with mouflons, lama's and monkeys is as zoo itself not really a very interesting and exciting 'must see',... 

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El Bahia Palace   Marrakesh

El Bahia Palace, Marrakesh

 45 Reviews  The Bahia Palace is located in the medina of Marrakesh near the Jewish quarter. The exact dates of the construction of the palace ae not known but it was completed by 1900. The palace complex was... 

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La Corniche   Casablanca

La Corniche, Casablanca

 14 Reviews  As you have no doubt read in my travelogue, hubby and I enjoyed our stroll along the beachfront in Casablanca. This is a popular spot for the local families as well. There are pools on the beachfront... 

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Beach   Agadir

Beach, Agadir

 6 Reviews  Agadir has a very good beach. A wide and long strip of thin white sand, a regular and low surf, no hidden rocks, the only drawback was the persistent fog. Is it common, or just our bad luck? Anyway,... 

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Places Around Marrakesh   Marrakesh

Places Around Marrakesh, Marrakesh

 28 Reviews  If you want a real adventure try Sahara Expedition. I've done the trip to Erg Chebbi twice. Both an Adventure. One I had to complete the trip on my own due to roads being flooded and the driver... 

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Modern City Life   Casablanca

Modern City Life, Casablanca

 11 Reviews  I'm usually an old building fan, so in the Arab World, I generally get my kicks in the medinas where the oldest and most interesting quarters are found, and hardly visit the new modern parts of town.... 

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Souq El-Had   Agadir

Souq El-Had, Agadir

 3 Reviews  If you are a market addict like me, you may have a lot to explore at the stalls of the Souq al-Had. So I found at this marketstall boxes with all kind of different stuff from haberdashery, plastics,... 

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Suuq of Marrakesh   Marrakesh

Suuq of Marrakesh, Marrakesh

 47 Reviews  Most people think of Marrakech as a shoppers delight. I don't. I had saved all my money to buy my gifts here at the markets or Souks and was a bit dissapointed. It's actually better to shop at... 

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Quartiers des Habous   Casablanca

Quartiers des Habous, Casablanca

 6 Reviews  Some distance south of the city centre, after blocks of drab apartments and offices, things suddenly perk up a little bit. A stone mosque with what looks like a village green out the front, narrow... 

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Jardim de Olhao   Agadir

Jardim de Olhao, Agadir

 4 Reviews  In the southwest corner of the Jardim de Olhao is a small museum dedicated to the earthquake of 1960. I red that some pictures of old Agadir are displayed here. To visit this museum on my way from the... 

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Koutoubia Minaret & Koutoubia Gardens   Marrakesh

Koutoubia Minaret & Koutoubia Gardens, Marrakesh

 55 Reviews  The tallest structure in Marrakech is the Koutoubia Minaret. Dating back to the 12th century, it is a fine example of Moorish architecture, and a symbol of the city. At around 70 metres high, it makes... 

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Official Buildings   Casablanca

Official Buildings, Casablanca

 7 Reviews  The most impressive part of modern casablanca is probably the Place Mohammed V, a wide open space with fountains and pigeons and palm trees, surrounded by offiicial buildings from the colonial era on... 

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Amazighe Heritage Museum   Agadir

Amazighe Heritage Museum, Agadir

 3 Reviews  At the groundflour of the Municipal Amazighe heritage museum is a hall for temporary exhibitions of contemporary art. During my visit in summer 2007 there was an exhibition of the work of a local... 

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Medina   Marrakesh

Medina, Marrakesh

 32 Reviews  We just returned from a phenomenal trip of Marrakesh. Al Moussika was our base to explore the medina and for trips to the coast and to the Atlas mountains. The riyad is a carefully and tastefully... 

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Cathédrale de Sacré-Coeur   Casablanca

Cathédrale de Sacré-Coeur, Casablanca

 3 Reviews  Just off the square, look out for two sparkling white towers and a spiky roof...this is the Cathedrale du Sacre Coeur, an odd yet beautiful Moroccan-colonial building. The first time I came to visit,... 

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Camel Ride   Agadir

Camel Ride, Agadir

 3 Reviews  Here you can ofcours ride a camel, at the top of Kasbahn. I´m not sure what the price is but I know for sure that you must agree about the price BEFORE you get on the camel otherwise the man who is... 

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Saadian Tombs   Marrakesh

Saadian Tombs, Marrakesh

 39 Reviews  The Tombs, were only relativly recently re-discovered when a very narrow alley was found at the rear of a mosgue. This, on investigation lead to these tombs that had been lost. The complex comprises... 

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Casablanca Bar   Casablanca

Casablanca Bar, Casablanca

 2 Reviews  CASABLANCA BAR This bar is the place for those who try to find something in the city that reminds them of the movie (which was actually filmed in Tangier not Casablanca). This bar has a very cosy... 

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El Badi Palace   Marrakesh

El Badi Palace, Marrakesh

 25 Reviews  The minbar is in a restored pavillion in the Palace El Badi, with exhibits of the minbar and its restoration. A minbar or Mimbar is the platform/pulpit where the Imam recites the Koran. Often... 

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Marrakech Museum   Marrakesh

Marrakech Museum, Marrakesh

 26 Reviews  The building itself is the main reason for visiting this beautiful museum, a former 19th century palace. The exhibits including some contemporary art are worthwhile, but the tile work and general... 

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The Koutoubia Mosque

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The Koutoubia Mosque is the largest mosque in Marrakech, and its minaret, which can be seen from all quarters of the city, is an iconic symbol of Marrakech. Its name derives from the Arabic koutoubiyyin, meaning "librarian", as the area was once dominated by book sellers. The Almohad sultan, Abd al-Mouman, ordered the mosque to be built in 1162 to celebrate an Almohad victory over their adversaries, the Almoravids. It was built on the site of an earlier Almoravid mosque, and the Almohads probably demolished the older mosque as they believed the Almoravids were heretics and their mosque was therefore not worthy of the Almohads. The minaret was completed during the reign of Yacoub al-Mansour, the grandson of Abd al-Mamoun. Constructed of pink Guéliz stone, the 221-foot (69-meter) minaret has six levels in its interior, and is the tallest structure in Marrakech. Its top is adorned in the...

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The Kairouyine Mosque

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The Kairouyine Mosque was founded in 859 A.D. by Fatima bint Mohammed al-Fihri, the daughter of a wealthy merchant, Mohammed al-Fihri. It is part of the Kairouyine University, the oldest continuously functioning university in the world. Mohammed al-Fihri and his family, along with 2,000 other families, were banished from Kairouyine, Tunisa after a revolt. They emmigrated to Fez, where they established a community on the west side of the city. Fatima bint Mohammed al-Fihri was an educated and religious woman who used all of her large inheritance to construct a mosque for the community. In addition to serving as a place of worship, the Kairouyine Mosque became a madrasa, a place for religious instruction and political discussion. Nowadays, it is one of the leading spiritual and educational centers in the Muslim world.Over the centuries, successive dynasties remodeled and expanded the...

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Bab Mansour

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Bab Mansour is one of the more interesting sights in the historical city of Meknès, which is known for its gates (bab in Arabic), palaces, and 16 miles (26 kilometers) of walls that surround the city.Bab Mansour was named after the architect who designed and built it, al-Mansour, a Christian who converted to Islam. Construction started in the late 1600s under the orders of sultan Moulay Ismail, who wanted a grand entrance to his imperial city. During construction, Moulay Ismail died, and the gate was completed in 1732 by his son, Moulay Abdallah, five years after his death.The gate has three large arches, marble columns taken from the Roman ruins at nearby Volubilis, and a smaller gate to the side, Bab Djemmaa en Nouar. It is covered with green-and-blue zellij, hand-cut ceramic mosaic tiles that are characterized by symbolic geometry and abstract patterns. The zellij artform originated...

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Bab Oudaya

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The main entrance to the Kasbah of the Oudayas, Bab Oudaya was built in 1195 by the Almohad sultan, Yacoub al-Mansour. Its purpose was to serve as a grand entrance into the kasbah which is where the mosque, souq, and sultan's palace were located. The gateway (bab in Arabic) was therefore more ceremonial than defensive. The massive gate was built by cutting a hole out of the defensive wall which had been previously built by Sultan Yacoub al-Mansour's grandfather, Abd al-Moumen. Its most distinctive features are its horseshoe arch, check-and-shoulder designs carved into the stone, and geometric ornamentations.Bab Oudaya is a popular tourist attraction, and is probably the most photographed monument in Rabat. Many guides hang around Bab Oudaya offering guided tours of the Kasbah of the Oudayas. However, many of them are not licensed and should be avoided.

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Fez el-Bali

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Fez is famous for its old fortified medina, called Fez el-Bali, the best-preserved medina in the Arab world, and reputed to be the largest car-free zone in the world. Fez el-Bali is still surrounded by its original defensive walls. Arched gateways, or babs, lead into the heart of the medina, and additional smaller walls and gateways within the medina separate different neighborhoods from each other. Fez el-Bali contains some budget hotels, cafes and restaurants, and the city's souq, or marketplace, that has been described as the "most confusing square mile on earth." The labyrinthine souq contains hundreds of very narrow, dark streets and alleyways, some no wider than ten feet (three meters), that make visitors feel as if they are in a maze. Most of the streets are so narrow that little sunlight reaches street level, giving the souq an atmosphere of gloom and darkness.The narrow streets...

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The Djemmaa el Fna

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The Djemmaa el Fna, which is Arabic for "Assembly of the Dead," is the main square and marketplace in the medina, or old town, of Marrackech. It is the main tourist attraction of the city, but many locals are drawn to the square for its large number of entertainment, shopping, and dining opportunities.The Djemmaa el Fna is bordered on one side by the entrance to the city's souq (the largest in Morocco), and on other sides by terrace restaurants, hotels and gardens, and narrow streets that lead into the heart of the medina.During the day, the Djemmaa el Fna is full of tourists who come to see and photograph snake charmers, water sellers with their traditional costumes and leather water bags, fortune tellers, jugglers, Cheluh dancing boys, and traditional gnaoui musicians. In the evening, most of the entertainers make way for food stalls specializing in fish, meat or vegetables, and which...

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The Kasbah of the Oudayas

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The Kasbah of the Oudayas is a fortress that was constructed on a bluff overlooking the Atlantic Ocean and the estuary of the Bou Regreg River. Its walls enclosed the settlement that was to become Rabat, the palace of the sultan, the souq, and the earliest mosque built in Rabat. The fortress, or ribat, was constructed by Moulay Ismail between 1672 and 1727. It was originally a fortified convent from which Muslim soldiers departed in the early seventeenth century to fight a holy war in Spain. The Spanish Christians were trying to reconquer Spain from the Muslim Moors, a tribe from North Africa. The ribat was called Ribat el-Fath, or "Fort of Victory", which was eventually shortened to Rabat, the name of today's city.After the Muslim Moors were defeated and ousted from Spain by the Christians, large numbers of refugees from Andalusía settled in the kasbah, whose name was changed to the...

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Camel trek in the Sahara !

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I just came back from Marrakesh, and did a camel trek in the Sahara! it was wonderful! About a 5 hour drive from Marrakesh down to Zagora , which is the " door to the Sahara " ....we then " boarded " our camels at sunset...and rode 2 hours into the Sahara!!! it was surreal...I kinda felt we were in a movie...it was so peaceful..Came to the tent site, where they had dinner waiting for my friend and I, ( I even have food issues and they accommodated me !! ) ..then we sat around the campfire..the Berbers sang songs...as we sat and watched shooting stars!!! ( I know! this sounds too good to be true...) Next morning...woke up in our tent..had breakfast..went back to our camels...and rode home to Zagoura...then a leisurely drive back to Marrakesh... stopping where ever we wanted to. Our guides were Jamal and Mohammad....they were wonderful! They work for Imlil Trek....( imliltrek.com and they...

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The Old Medina

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The Old Medina, first settled in the fourteenth century, is the oldest section of Casablanca. Its main entrance is through a gate in a wall that used to enclose the neighborhood. Only one section of the wall remains, as it and most of the medina's original buildings were destroyed by an earthquake in 1755. After the earthquake, the medina lay in a state of ruin until Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Abdallah instituted a rebuilding scheme in 1770. Today's whitewashed buildings, which are mostly residential, are a combination of Arabic-Islamic and Western architectural styles, and date from the early nineteenth century.Casablanca's medina is less impressive and not as large as the medinas in other cities such as Fez and Marrakech, nor does it have as many interesting sights. It is characterized by narrow, cobbled streets, small neighborhood mosques, hidden courtyards, a colonial-era clock tower,...

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The Hassan II Mosque

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The Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca was Morocco's gift to King Hassan II on his 60th birthday. He wanted Casablanca, a city lacking in monuments, "to be endowed with a large, fine building of which it can be proud until the end of time." It is the largest mosque in Morocco, and the fifth-largest mosque in the world. It was built on a promontory over the ocean at the request of King Hassan II, who was inspired by the Koranic scripture "Allah has His throne on the water."The mosque was designed by French architect Michel Pinseau. His design was inspired by the Moorish-style architecture of Spain, such as the Alhambra and the Great Mosque of Córdoba. Construction was started in 1986 and was completed in 1993. Most of the materials came from Morocco, including marble, granite, and cedar. Venetian glass was the only imported material used in the construction of the mosque. Much of the building...

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Q:  I am thinking travelling to Morocco with my nearly 6 yrs old Girl. We are landing in Marakesh and Plan to Array for 3 days After... 

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A: As you have 3 weeks the desert area is a must. A 'grand circuit' down to the desert via Ouarzazate, east to Erfoud, then north to Fez is easily done in two weeks. I'd... 

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