Posts Tagged ‘Morocco Holidays’

Moroccan Wine Guide, Choosing The Best Moroccan Wine, Your Morocco Travel Guide

Moroccan Wine Guide, Choosing The Best Moroccan Wine, Your Morocco Travel Guide

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

Restaurant menus and wine shops in Morocco present travelers with an astounding array of choice in excellent Moroccan wines. But where should the person unfamiliar with Moroccan wines begin? This article will provide a starting point and serve as a Moroccan Wine Guide by recommending some inexpensive good-value Moroccan wines. Morocco has been a leading wine producer and its bold red and white grapes have become popular among the French, Americans and within Modern Moroccan households. When the French colonized Morocco, like the Romans centuries before them, they realized Morocco’s possibility of being a wine country. The French developed Meknès, a Moroccan Imperial City, into a wine region. Today 30,000 acres of land in Morocco contribute to wine production and Morocco sells over 40 million bottles within Morocco and abroad. Moroccan wine is in a state of revival and wine producers are taking advantage of the country’s sunny, mild temperate climate, and high altitudes.

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Scenes From the Filming of Sex and the City 2 in Morocco, Your Morocco Travel Guide

Scenes From the Filming of Sex and the City 2 in Morocco, Your Morocco Travel Guide

Moroccan Arts & Entertainment, Moroccan Festivals & Holidays, Moroccan Food & Drink, Moroccan Shopping, Morocco Accommodations & Lodging, Morocco City Guides, Morocco for Solo Travelers / Families / Couples, Morocco Holiday Activities, Morocco Natural Wonders, Morocco Style & Design, Morocco Travel Tips, Morocco Vacations & Tours

Step into the world of the Arabian Nights with New Line Cinema’s Sex in the City 2, a fabulous wish-fulfillment movie for women, filmed in Morocco, and opening in theaters on May 28, 2010. Indeed Sex in the City has left New York for majestic Morocco. Spectacular photographs from its North African set will leave an impression on viewers of this sequel film. Filmed in the Souks of Marrakech, actresses Sarah Jessica Parker and Cynthia Nixon were spotted pounding their heals through Marrakesh’s Djemaa El Fna Square, according to the UK Daily Mail Online.

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Souks of Morocco, Your Morocco Travel Guide

Souks of Morocco, Your Morocco Travel Guide

Moroccan Festivals & Holidays, Moroccan History & Architecture, Moroccan Shopping, Morocco Vacations & Tours

Exploring the Souks of Morocco is a great way to connect with the local people and to experience first hand the tradition of Moroccan buying and selling of a wide range of goods. Moroccan Souks are typically held once a week in each city and region with the “day of the souk” being the best time to purchase fresh vegetables, fruits, preserved lemons, olives, spices, household items, Moroccan jewelry, Music, Toys, Glass ware, Silver, Gold, Clothing, Moroccan carpets and other exciting finds that are carried across the Maghreb from souk to souk.

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Eating in Djemaa-El-Fna Square, In Marrakesh, Your Morocco Travel Guide

Eating in Djemaa-El-Fna Square, In Marrakesh, Your Morocco Travel Guide

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

Djemaa El Fna Square is in the heart of Marrakesh, Morocco is like no where else on earth, and an adventure not to be missed after dusk. Courageous travelers in Morocco will definitely want to eat in the Djemaa El Fna Square. Tourists can avoid any chance of illness simply by sticking to foods that are actually cooked in front of them, and passed over to be eaten off of a clean paper. The Moroccan family in the photo above is waiting for their main course to come out of the cooking pot in front of them.Whether you choose to eat or not, just a stroll through the Djemaa El Fna Square in the evening can provide some very unique photo opportunities.

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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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Moroccan Preserved Lemons, Your Morocco Travel Guide

Moroccan Preserved Lemons, Your Morocco Travel Guide

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

Preserved lemons are a staple in Moroccan cuisine and are added to slow cooking tagines, stews, and soups for a wonderful tangy lemon flavor that can not be duplicated with fresh lemons. In Morocco, these lemons can be bought individually at a souk, or marketplace, and are very easy to find given their importance in Moroccan dishes. Outside of Morocco these lemons may be found in Middle Eastern or international markets but are so easy to make many cooks decide to prepare their own preserved lemons at home.

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Visiting Saltworks in the Moroccan Sahara Desert, Your Morocco Travel Guide

Visiting Saltworks in the Moroccan Sahara Desert, Your Morocco Travel Guide

Moroccan Festivals & Holidays, Morocco City Guides, Morocco Holiday Activities, Morocco Vacations & Tours

Standing in a Pile of Salt Saltworks in Morocco are interesting places to visit.  They can be found along the Atlantic Coast of Morocco, in the Moroccan Sahara Desert.  This one was south of Merlift, between Sidi Ifni and Tarfaya.  Others can be found south of Tan-Tan Plage and Laayoune, all the…

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Make the Grand Prix in Marrakech Part of Your Moroccan Holiday, Your Morocco Travel Guide

Make the Grand Prix in Marrakech Part of Your Moroccan Holiday, Your Morocco Travel Guide

Moroccan Arts & Entertainment, Moroccan Festivals & Holidays, Morocco City Guides, Morocco Customs & Traditions, Morocco for Solo Travelers / Families / Couples, Morocco Holiday Activities, Morocco Travel Tips, Morocco Vacations & Tours

Why not make next year’s Marrakech Grand Prix part of your Moroccan travel experience? Featuring three days of non-stop action in Marrakech, and attended by nearly ten thousand visitors for the second year in a row, the race is packed with both adults and children. The entire course is well-protected by barriers and grandstands are set up in specified areas. Portable restrooms are conveniently located in all areas.

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Authentic Morocco Tours With Travel Exploration Morocco, Testimonials and Trip Advice, Your Morocco Travel Guide

Authentic Morocco Tours With Travel Exploration Morocco, Testimonials and Trip Advice, Your Morocco Travel Guide

Moroccan Festivals & Holidays, Moroccan History & Architecture, Morocco Accommodations & Lodging, Morocco City Guides, Morocco Holiday Activities, Morocco Natural Wonders, Morocco Travel Planning, Morocco Travel Tips, Morocco Vacations & Tours

When considering a vacation or holiday to Morocco choosing an Authentic Morocco Tour company such as Travel Exploration Morocco that offers Testimonials and Trip Advice is an important way to begin planning a Morocco travel journey. When choosing a Morocco Travel Agency some of the most important things to consider are:

1. Reputation of the Morocco travel agency you choose.

2. The Morocco Travel Director’s experience and ability to offer you travel advice.

3. Authentic Morocco Tour Testimonials written by those who have traveled to Morocco with the agency you choose.

4. The rate of response to your Morocco travel requests by the Morocco Travel Agency.

5. Flexible and varied Morocco Tour itineraries and Morocco Travel activities that meet your holiday needs.

6. A varied offering of quality 3, 4 and 5 Star Morocco accommodations such as Marrakech Riads, Fes Riads, Ouarzazate Riads or Morocco Hotels that fit your budget.

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Morocco Travel Specialists & Morocco Tour Guides Offering Affordable Luxury Private Tours to Morocco & Travel Agent Services

Morocco Travel Specialists & Morocco Tour Guides Offering Affordable Luxury Private Tours to Morocco & Travel Agent Services

Moroccan Arts & Entertainment, Moroccan Festivals & Holidays, Morocco for Solo Travelers / Families / Couples, Morocco Holiday Activities, Morocco Travel Planning, Morocco Travel Tips, Morocco Vacations & Tours

Travel Exploration is a Morocco Tour agency that offers a unique and wide range of Morocco travel opportunities through its boutique Morocco travel itineraries. Travel Exploration Morocco’s Director, Alecia J. Cohen heads up Morocco Travel’s New York and Ouarzazate, Morocco office. Alecia J. Cohen started Travel Exploration Morocco with business partner Hossaine Amiri after living, traveling throughout and engaging with Moroccan Culture for nine years. Ms. Cohen was inspired to create a Morocco travel agency that offers unique, tailor-made cultural tours and customized trips to Morocco to better serve Americans, Europeans and Foreigners who have been looking for affordable luxury and cultural Morocco Tours.

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