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10 Street Foods to Eat When Traveling to Morocco, Your Morocco Tour Guide

Things to Eat in Morocco

Moroccan Street Food is a great way to discover Morocco’s local culture.  While the best Moroccan food is said to be found in a Moroccan home, very reasonably priced  street food is available in small stalls and roadside cafés all over Morocco. Eating Moroccan Street Food in the old medina…

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The Tissa Horse Festival, Your Morocco Guide

Morocco Tours

During the year, the small town of Tissa,on the edge of the Rif region, in the province of Taounate, is a quiet rural community, tucked away in the hills of the Moroccan countryside, fifty kilometers away from Fez. From 8-13 October 2013, the town will be transformed, as it is…

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Riad Star, A New Boutique Riad in Marrakech, Your Morocco Tour Guide

Morocco Tour

Riad Star opens in September 2013 after two years of renovation by a team of Marrakech’s finest craftsmen. It was part of the palace once owned by the Pasha of Marrakech, Thami El Glaoui who in the 1940s invited Josephine Baker to live there. She was inspirational vaudeville star, singer…

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Getting to know Morocco for the First Time, Your Morocco Tour Guide

Morocco Travel

Morocco has a diverse and vibrant culture close to Europe just 13 km from the coast of Spain yet with growing ties with the Middle East where the oil rich Gulf countries are investing substantially in Morocco’s tourism industry. Morocco also has close contacts with Africa. It is at the…

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Essaouira’s Jewish Heritage, Your Morocco Tour Guide

Morocco Travel

In the new Moroccan constitution adopted in 2011 in the context of the Arab Spring , His Majesty King Mohammed VI reaffirmed the “Hebrew distinctive characteristic” of Morocco as ” one of the age-old pieces ” of “its national identity”” and he called for “the restoration of all the Jewish…

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Summer in Morocco: Seaside Communities Things to do in Essaouira, Agadir and Oualidia

Morocco Travel

In Morocco in July and August when temperatures are on the high side, you can avoid the sweltering heat of the cities by heading to coastal resorts  or  the Atlas Mountain retreats where cooler breezes allow you to escape inland heat. Agadir’s  long  clean crescent beach on the Atlantic coast, offer…

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Souks Outside Marrakech, Your Morocco Tour Guide

Morocco Souks and Markets, Morocco Travel, Uncategorized

By  visiting local souks outside Marrakech you can experience local Berber country life and absorb the character of the marketplaces where they meet each week. This is an important social occasion where local producers sell their wares including, fruit, vegetables and livestock. Merchants from Marrakech sell essentials such as: tea,…

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The Art of Yahya Rouach: Modern Elegance and the Riches of the East

Morocco Art Tours, Morocco Travel

Lamps in ornate brass covered with intricate designs thrown into relief as shadows on the wall, huge lamps hanging from the ceiling, framed wooden Arabic calligraphy and the finest metalwork hangs on the walls of Yahya Rouach’s show room in Marrakech’s modern quarter, Guéliz. It feels as if you have entered…

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Azemmour, Your Morocco Tour Guide

Morocco Tour, Morocco Travel

Azemmour  is a charming former Portugese  fortified town  on the  great  Oum Er-Rabia river 75 km from Casblanca and close to the  fortified  city of El Jadida  which the Portugese moved to after abandoning Azemmour in 1541. The Duke of Braganza took the town in 1513 with a force of…

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North African Jewelry, Your Morocco Tour

Moroccan Silver Jewelry, Morocco Travel

In the nineteenth century Morocco began to receive European and American visitors who were also visiting neighboring Algeria,Tunisia and Libya. Early photographers like the Scotsman George Washington Wilson and others began to take photographs of the countryside, towns and people including posed photographs of Berber women adorned in their fine…

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