After three enjoyable nights in Chefchaouen it was time to move on. By this point I had two weeks still to go before flying back to the UK from Marrakech. I wanted to get down to Marrakech much sooner than that, though, and use it as a jumping off point to head out to the... Continue Reading →

After two nights in Tangier I was on the move to Chefchaouen, a town in the Rif Mountains famed for its picturesque blue-washed medina. I arrived shortly after 3pm following a 2-hour Grand Taxi ride. A shared taxi like this is significantly quicker than the bus and, at 70 dirham, not a great deal more in... Continue Reading →

I had booked 2 nights in Tangier but my intention was to cram most of the sightseeing into one day. Whilst not necessarily top of my list of places to visit in Morocco, I was still interested to see it - serving as the gateway to Africa it has a very rich history. First up in... Continue Reading →

A year on and I was heading back to Morocco. As much as anything else my choice of destination was on the grounds it would be a cheap trip to a warm destination. The intention was to spend a bit more time exploring this really interesting country and visit some new places I had not... Continue Reading →

I had two full days to play with in Marrakech, more than what I’d had in Fez and Meknès. Day one was all about exploring the old medina. I firstly headed to Djemaa el-Fna the main square to get my bearings and see in daylight what I had walked through the night before. After a coffee stop... Continue Reading →

I awoke early and saw the spectacular sight through my window of the first sunlight of the day hitting the vertical rock face outside the front of the hostel. I must have had the best hotel view in the area! At breakfast I asked the hostel owner Rashid if there was a physical ticket for... Continue Reading →

My day had begun atop a camel in the Sahara desert. Two long-distance grand taxi rides, a bus, and another taxi ride later it ended with me in the foothills of the Atlas mountains at Todra Gorge. It was certainly an interesting travel day and one that I shall remember for a while. I saw... Continue Reading →

I got up and chatted with a group of Germans at breakfast who had just returned from a night in the dunes at Erg Chebbi. It sounded amazing. The hotel owner's brother was with them and explained to me two different camel treks options. One was to do a sunset/sunrise thing staying in a desert camp overnight;... Continue Reading →

It was pissing it down with rain and I was keen to move on from Meknes but exactly where to I still needed to figure out. The specifics would depend on bus times but the plan formulating in my mind was to head in the general direction of the desert. I headed to the bus... Continue Reading →