Category: travel series

  • Five Alps mountain passes in two days, part 4

    Five Alps mountain passes in two days, part 4

    On our second day of this road trip to the Eastern side of Switzerland, we drove from Andermatt (after a detour to Airolo and St Gotthard pass) to St. Moritz. How about a bit of Bach for this stretch of the road trip ? We took Hauptstrassen 19 running alongside the river Vorderrhein (which feeds…

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  • Five Alps mountain passes in two days, part 3

    Five Alps mountain passes in two days, part 3

    For the first night of this short trip, we stayed in Andermatt (1437 m).  It is a mountain village in the canton of Uri, and has been the historical center of north-south and east-west traverses of Switzerland. The village is connected by three Alpine passes: the Oberalp Pass (6,706 ft; 2,044 m.) to the east connecting the…

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  • Road trip in Morocco #4 – from Ouarzazate to Essaouira

    Road trip in Morocco #4 – from Ouarzazate to Essaouira

    This is the last post of a series that documented our second road trip across Morocco that took us from the desert camp at Merzouga to Essaouira on the Atlantic coast. It was a jaunt of about 1000 km made in 3 days.  You can follow our trip to Ouarzazate on this blog here and…

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  • Atlas Studios, Ouarzazate

    Atlas Studios, Ouarzazate

    Atlas Studios is a film studio located about 5 km (3 miles) west of the city of Ouarzazate, the second town where we spent a night on our Merzouga-to-Essaouira road trip across Morocco. You can follow our trip to Ouarzazate on this blog here and here. According to Wikipedia, measured by acreage, it is the…

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  • Morabit Marbre Fossils, Erfoud

    Morabit Marbre Fossils, Erfoud

    Our first detour after we left our Merzouga desert camp on our cross-country drive was a fossil factory or rock shop – Morabit Marbre Fossils, at Erfoud – the fossil capital of Morocco. What kind of music goes with fossils ? Try this : During the Devonian period, the Paleozoic Era, from about 450 million…

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  • Road trip in Morocco #3 – from Boumalne-Dadès to Ouarzazate

    Road trip in Morocco #3 – from Boumalne-Dadès to Ouarzazate

    Our second road trip across Morocco took 3 days, 2 nights, from our desert camp at Merzouga to Essaouira on the Atlantic coast. The first night was spent in Boumalne-Dadès, and the second in Ouarzazate. This post covers the journey between these two points. See earlier posts about the road trip here and here. This…

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