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Mon, 19 May 2014 | By semou | Views [224]
Leaving the station, we were enclosed into a long blustery road. The air coming through the open trucks window brought a nonstop traffic noise. We drove on in a burning sun and sweet begun to roll of me in layers. After an hour of drive, the car came ... Read more >
Thu, 15 May 2014 | By iamypaterson | Views [324] | Scholarship Entry
The naked woman beckons to me from the end of the passageway. Clutching my towel to my chest with one hand, I use the other to awkwardly lean down and pick up my bucket before shuffling towards her. Wrought iron lanterns illuminate the path ahead with ... Read more >
Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip
Sun, 11 May 2014 | By nncysf | Photo Gallery
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Sat, 3 May 2014 | By chiacchierare | Views [528]
It is time. I stir as I hear a faint crackling through some far away speakers. I turn over, waiting. The sheet has since long left my bed and I have spread my limbs to get the best effect of the fan which stands prompted on the wicker chair next to my ... Read more >
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Fri, 2 May 2014 | By chiacchierare | Views [412] | Scholarship Entry
The heat was settling and the first cool winds were sweeping in from the desert. The sky slowly turning from a clear blue to an unapologetic black, penetrated by the white light of a thin moon shiver. Tunes from the snake charmer’s flute float to my rooftop ... Read more >
Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip
Sat, 19 Apr 2014 | By nncysf | Views [372]
lahsen came to get us in the late morning for the 3-hour drive to marrakech - we had a hankering for a bottle of wine for our last night in morocco and actually had bought another bottle before the desert - but when we asked lahsen if he had found ... Read more >
Fri, 18 Apr 2014 | By nncysf | Views [424]
essaouira used to be portuguese (called mogador) and definitely feels quite mediterranean - interestingly, spanish is still a semi-official language (some traffic signs are in arabic french and spanish) and it's spoken by about 5 million moroccans, ... Read more >
Fri, 18 Apr 2014 | By nncysf | Views [455]
we arrived in Taroudant late in the afternoon after a very very long drive - so pooped that we didn't leave the riad at all which was very sad, as we discovered when we finally went up to the rooftop terrace in the evening (after a refreshing dip in ... Read more >
Thu, 17 Apr 2014 | By nncysf | Views [598]
it seems now i'm back home, that every time i turn around i see something about argan, but i have to say that before going to morocco i had barely heard of it - it's a very hard nut that contains oily seeds and has to be cracked pretty much by hand (between ... Read more >
Thu, 17 Apr 2014 | By nncysf | Views [427]
we set our phones to wake us at 5:45 for our camel ride at sunrise - so so cool - the shadows from the dunes were otherworldly, the full moon was sinking into the west and there was no sound aside from the camels' hooves on the sand - our guide/cameldriver ... Read more >
Wed, 16 Apr 2014 | By nncysf | Views [414]
and now for another drive - fortunately we think Lahsen took a nap during the wedding while we were shaking our booties in the women's section - because he now took the 4x4 completely off road to cross the desert - absolutely no tracks to show the way ... Read more >
Tue, 15 Apr 2014 | By nncysf | Views [481]
Lahsen had mentioned a couple of times that we would be going to a marriage, but i assumed it was a tourist exhibition - NOT!
it was his family's village in the desert and it was incredible -
oh but first i have to report 1 small thing ... Read more >
Mon, 14 Apr 2014 | By nncysf | Views [410]
we had another longish drive from Ourzazate (1 issue there was that i was running out of Moroccan money, and had a feeling that ATMs were going to be tough to find amongst the sand dunes - so i went looking for a bank machine - Mohamed at Dar Kamar made ... Read more >
Sun, 13 Apr 2014 | By nncysf | Views [390]
the wedding in the village did keep us awake for much of the night - plus worrying about our luggage really has affected us - it is true that we are healthy and in a wonderful place where people are so kindly taking care of us - but still, it is hard ... Read more >
Sat, 12 Apr 2014 | By nncysf | Views [381]
Lahsen picked us up at the riad to start our journey into the real Morocco - Fazia from Journey Beyond mentioned that we had booked a more 'rustic' itinerary than most people do (at Alan's excellent suggestion - this meant that we skipped Fez and Rabat ... Read more >
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