Posts Tagged ‘Marrakesh Travel’

How Does the Ramadan Fast Affect Tourists in Morocco. Your Morocco Travel Guide

How Does the Ramadan Fast Affect Tourists in Morocco. Your Morocco Travel Guide

Moroccan Festivals & Holidays, Moroccan History & Architecture

How does the Ramadan fast affect tourists traveling to the Imperial Cities, the Sahara Desert and other regions of Morocco during this high holy holiday? Can tourists eat or drink in public during Ramadan? This article should clear up the confusion on this issue for tourists, to explain the most polite solutions for tourist behavior at this time, and to assure tourists that there is no problem with them visiting Morocco during Ramadan. Because the Islamic calendar is lunar, holidays such as Ramadan advance by approximately ten days with each subsequent year. This means that Ramadan makes a cycle through the entire calendar of twelve months each twenty-some years. This year, Ramadan started on August 12th, 2010 in Morocco. The fast presently starts in Morocco at approximately 4:30 AM, and ends in the evening at approximately 7:30 PM.

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Morocco, The Land of Olives, Your Morocco Travel Guide

Morocco, The Land of Olives, Your Morocco Travel Guide

Moroccan Festivals & Holidays, Moroccan Food & Drink, Moroccan Shopping, Morocco City Guides, Morocco Vacations & Tours

If you are an olive olive lover, you will find Morocco to be a paradise!All the different colors and varieties of Moroccan olives are cured with different methods. The lemony greens, the succulent reds, and the pungent blacks are all done in several different ways, and each style has separate uses in the Moroccan cuisine. Once the olives are picked off the trees in mid-November, they are usually cut in Morocco with a razor blade, using a long, diagonal slash. During the hand-cutting, they are sorted by color into green, red, and black, all going into different vats.

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Marrakesh Travel & Marrakesh Siteseeing Tour, Just One Day In Marrakesh, Your Morocco Travel Guide

Marrakesh Travel & Marrakesh Siteseeing Tour, Just One Day In Marrakesh, Your Morocco Travel Guide

Moroccan Arts & Entertainment, Moroccan Festivals & Holidays, Moroccan History & Architecture, Moroccan Museums, Morocco City Guides, Morocco Customs & Traditions, Morocco for Solo Travelers / Families / Couples, Morocco Travel Planning, Morocco Vacations & Tours, Sightseeing in Morocco

If you just have one day in Marrakesh, then a Marrakesh Siteseeing Tour is the perfect way to discover this exciting and exotic city. Marrakesh, often referred to as the Paris of Morocco is the the “red city or Al Hamra,” a city in southwestern Morocco within the foothills of the Atlas Mountains.

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Absolute Morocco, Visit the Imperial Cities of Marrakech, Fes, Meknes & Ancient Kasbahs in Ouarzazate – Your Morocco Travel Guide

Absolute Morocco, Visit the Imperial Cities of Marrakech, Fes, Meknes & Ancient Kasbahs in Ouarzazate – Your Morocco Travel Guide

Moroccan Arts & Entertainment, Morocco City Guides, Morocco Travel Planning, Morocco Vacations & Tours, Sightseeing in Morocco

Absolute Morocco is the most exciting tour (Book a Tour or call (800) 787-8806) to take for first time travelers to Morocco. Absolute Morocco takes you on an entertaining, fascinating and exotic journey to Morocco’s Imperial Cities of Marrakech, Fes and Meknes while including a visit to other historic cities such as Volubilis and Ouarzazate. When traveling on the Absolute Morocco tour you will visit the Berber capital of Ouarzazate, often referred to as “the door to the desert” and the Hollywood of Morocco. Ouarzazate is where famous directors and films have been shot such as Bertolucci’s Sheltering Sky, Martin Scorsese’s Kundun,, Ridley Scott’s Gladiator, Oliver Stone’s Alexander The Great and Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven. Ouarzazate also lays claim to one of Morocco’s oldest Kasbahs, Ait Benhaddou.

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