Posts Tagged ‘Travel to Morocco’

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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Video Tour of Mawazine World Music & Rhythms Festival

Berber Life, Moroccan Arts & Entertainment, Moroccan Festivals & Holidays, Morocco Travel Tips

Check out this video clip of the rhythms of the Mawazine Festival!

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Travel to Morocco’s Mawazine World Music & Rhythms Festival

Travel to Morocco’s Mawazine World Music & Rhythms Festival

Moroccan Arts & Entertainment, Moroccan Festivals & Holidays, Moroccan History & Architecture, Morocco Travel Tips, Morocco Vacations & Tours

  The eight edition of the Mawazine Festival will take place on May 15th to the 23rd. This years Rhythms of the World festival team has arranged an eight day program featuring well known artists like Kylie Minogue, Warda Al Jazayria, Alecia Keys and Stevie Wonder. The Mawazine Festival will…

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Travel Zagora: Morocco’s Tamagroute Pottery Cooperative

Travel Zagora: Morocco’s Tamagroute Pottery Cooperative

Berber Life, Moroccan Shopping, Morocco Travel Tips, Morocco Vacations & Tours

Every day in Morocco potter’s hands mold the burnt orange clay, wheels turn and ceramic bowls bake in the heat. It’s a daily process. In the villages, woman head down to the river bank to dig the moist clay from the earth. Retracing their steps back home with full woven…

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Berber Carpet Weaving Traditions of Morocco

Berber Carpet Weaving Traditions of Morocco

Berber Life, Moroccan Shopping, Morocco Travel Tips, Morocco Vacations & Tours

Moroccan carpets are famous around the world. In the West, the tightly woven beige Berber rugs are found in most modern homes, schools and offices. Although these rugs are stain resistant their dark flecks of brown and tan do not compare to the thousands of intricate designs and colors of…

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Backpacking in Morocco: The Best Way to Travel Local Culture

Backpacking in Morocco: The Best Way to Travel Local Culture

Moroccan History & Architecture, Moroccan Language & Communication Tips, Moroccan Shopping, Morocco Travel Tips, Morocco Vacations & Tours

After crashing her car in Italy, Lizzi Thomson of Bristol, grabbed a pack and some friends and continued traveling. Determined to feel the rhythm of a different world she headed to Morocco. After backpacking around Europe and one sleepless night in the Czech Republic, kept up by a man with…

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