Category: travel series
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Road trip in Morocco #2 – from Merzouga to Boumalne-Dadès (ⴱⵓⵎⴰⵍ ⵏ ⴷⴰⴷⵙⵙ)
Our second road trip across Morocco took 3 days, 2 nights, from our desert camp at Merzouga all the way to Essaouira on the Atlantic coast. The first night was spent in Boumalne-Dadès, and the second in Ouarzazate. On this portion of the trip, we played Dire Straits in the car which delighted our driver…
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Roaming around the desert – part 2
Continuing with the drive around the desert area near our camp, accompanied by some lively traditional Gnawa music. spotify:playlist:37i9dQZF1DWYCFWZy4Gz9M … along the way, we stopped to see a herd of donkeys that gathered around a well in the middle of a featureless flat desert. The well was built by funds from the charity – Coeur…
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Roaming around the desert – part 1
First, let’s put on some Morocco traditional music made by the Oud – a type of lute to get us in the mood. In Fes, IT went to a class to learn how to play the oud. spotify:album:5IK0BWzH8lWcRqHocn0GQ7 What did we do in the desert ? We set off in two 4-wheel drive SUVs in…
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Road trip in Morocco #1 – from Fes to Merzouga
This road trip is one of two which took us across Morocco. We arranged a driver to take us, 6 people, from Fes to Merzouga, south of the country. The journey in a Mercedes minivan started at 7:30 am and covered almost 500 km in one day. According to Google Map, it predicts 7.5 hrs.…
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Our trips 2019, part 2
Dear Readers, It has been a tradition on this blog to take a look back at some of the places we visited last year. In Part 1, we posted photos of places we visited in the second half of 2019. Here are the places we visited in the first half of the year. In reverse…
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Our trips 2019, part 1
Dear Readers, Happy 2020 ! We have moved here about a decade ago, and started this blog just before our departure from New York. So this blog is 10 years old ! We took a break from updating the blog earlier this year because of other projects. But we are committed to keep this going as long…