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Travel Exploration Morocco, Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence 2013

Morocco Tours, Morocco Travel

Travel Exploration Morocco Private Tours is a winner of the Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence aware for 2013. The Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence Award is a testament to Travel Exploration’s High Standards and Service provided for Morocco Private Tours and Morocco Day Tours. Travel Exploration Morocco earned exceptional traveller…

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Moroccan Ramadan Sweets and Soups, Your Morocco Tour Guide

Moroccan food

Moroccan soups are tasty and fortifying and are accompanied during Ramadan with an assortment of sugary sweets to boost energy levels after a day of fasting  The Ramadan fast is broken with harira a lentil and tomato based soup. dates and dried figs and  chebakia, which are flower-shaped cookies soaked…

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The Pottery and Ceramics of Morocco

Morocco Travel

Morocco’s pottery and ceramics are one of the real treasures of the souks with diverse traditional and modern colors and designs influenced by Berber and Islamic art and before them, absorbing Phoenician, Roman and Byzantine designs.  Ceramics and pottery pieces include vases, plates, pots, dishes, bowls, and the funnel shaped…

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Cooking Up Morocco, Best Cooking Classes, Your Morocco Tour Guide

Morocco Food Tours, Morocco Holiday, Morocco Travel

Learning some of the basics of Moroccan cooking can be an enjoyable experience and adds to your own culinary skills back home. Many riads offer cookery classes for their clients during their stay. These usually begin with a trip to the souk accompanied by one of the staff to buy…

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The 48th Marrakech National Festival of Popular Art July 2013

Marrakech Tour, Marrakech Travel

Held under the High Patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, the National Festival of Popular Arts  is the French acronym in Marrakech is the oldest festival in Morocco. Held annually in Marrakech, Morocco it showcases folk arts of the kingdom through its music, art and local handicrafts. It is…

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Nkob, Morocco’s Ait Atta Berber Treks and Travel

Sahara Travel

The Sagro Mountain region and Ait Ouzzine is the ancestral village of the Ait Atta a Berber tribe which resisted the French up until a treaty was concluded 1933 and never submitted to Thami El Glaoui Pacha of Marrakech during the French protectorate 1912-1956. The Ait Atta belong to the…

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Sefrou Cherry Festival in June, Tour Morocco Tour Guide

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The June 2013 Sefrou Cherry Festival in Morocco, which celebrates the annual harvest, is the 93rd in its history and the first since its inclusion as part of the UNESCO immaterial cultural patrimony. The first Cherry festival held in Sefrou was In 1918. A cherry queen is crowned as a…

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The Guelmim Camel Festival, Your Morocco Travel Guide

Morocco Sahara Travel

Guelmim, famous for its blue people and as the gateway to the Sahara is in the South west of  Morocco. It is the capital of the Guelmim-Es Semara region which includes Southern Morocco (south of the Souss-Massa-Draa region) and northern Western Sahara. It can be reached easily by road from…

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Oualidia the Well Kept Secret, Your Morocco Tour Guide

Oualidia, Seaside Morocco Tours

The lagoon and extensive beaches at  Oualidia, lying between El Jadida and Safi, were a well kept secret and a favourite of Moroccans as a seaside venue and a place to unwind. Oualidia is a new Honeymoon Tour destination in Morocco given it’s remote location and romantic surroundings.  Over the…

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Ourika Valley’s Nectarome Products and the Moroccan art of body care

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In the village of Tnine in the Ourika valley Nectarome has an organic garden with aromatic plants and medicinal herbs where their products are created and a shop selling a range of soaps, shampoos aroma therapy and massage oils. There are also several outlets in Marrakech and Casablanca. The company…

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