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Mon, 25 May 2015 | By samharrin | Views [216] | Scholarship Entry
You can tell a lot about a place by how it looks in the moonlight. Rabat, Morocco is no exception. Rabat’s critics say it's a sleepy, somewhat boring capital city. In many ways, they’re right. While Morocco’s most famous city, Casablanca, glitters and ... Read more >
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Mon, 25 May 2015 | By nicolemonforton | Views [179] | Scholarship Entry
The Arabic word “Hikmah,” means wisdom. It was the word painted in all caps in navy blue on the side of drum. Visually, that’s what I remember most from a night I spent in the foothills of the Atlas Mountains outside of Marrakech. Famished and blistered ... Read more >
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Sun, 24 May 2015 | By designeresra | Views [303] | Scholarship Entry
For the past three hours, we have been in the car on the roads’ ups and downs. My friends were fast asleep from the start of the trip, but I was wide awake awaiting all the blue I was promised. My patience was running low, but then the driver yelled as ... Read more >
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Sat, 23 May 2015 | By charisis | Views [208] | Scholarship Entry
-“I think 100 dirham. But how much do YOU think? If you do not negotiate, you will end up buying nothing!” The warm, sarcastic voice of Yussef, the old earring-seller was going back and forth in my head. My previous experience from Marrakech and Fes had ... Read more >
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Fri, 22 May 2015 | By elcastleberry | Views [420] | Scholarship Entry
The night market in Marrakech’s town square is chaos: the air thick with steam and pungent spices, the metallic clang of pots and pans, meat simmering on hot griddles, bright lights reflecting off of silver cookware. Eager waiters beckon with their hands ... Read more >
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Thu, 21 May 2015 | By sully76 | Views [210] | Scholarship Entry
Visitors to Djemma el-Fna, the notorious nighttime market in central Marrakesh, experience dichotomy as subtle as a splash of cold water in the face--a gathering of traditional vendors and consumers, literally a millennium in the making, contrasted with ... Read more >
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Wed, 20 May 2015 | By narkolepsia | Views [191] | Scholarship Entry
It was my first time in Africa, and after a couple of days in the bubbling, sweaty (getting used to wearing long sleeves and pants in 30 degrees ain’t easy) and loud Marrakech, any introverted solo traveller would look for some time to charge the batteries ... Read more >
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Wed, 20 May 2015 | By kritter | Views [227] | Scholarship Entry
I am lost in Jemaa el-Fnaa. The famous Moroccan square is surrounded by a tangle of narrow alleyways and sanded arches. My hostel is down one of these tight corridors. I find a shopkeeper to ask for directions. He is young and unassuming. He doesn't ... Read more >
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Tue, 19 May 2015 | By perrytrails | Views [160] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
Chefchaouen proves what a little paint can do: the townswomen bucked the Moroccan trend of whitewash and painted everything in town a robin's-egg blue. That may not sound like much, but the result is something akin to walking through a sapphire; as the ... Read more >
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Fri, 15 May 2015 | By shivareeleigh | Views [261] | Scholarship Entry
The fortified walls of the Medina restrain Marrakech’s knotty veins, a labyrinth of compressed alleys where salmon walls disperse low dusty light. Winding and doglegged, the souk bulges with enigmatic doorways and alluring wares. Carts sprout conical ... Read more >
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Fri, 15 May 2015 | By njprice | Views [216] | Scholarship Entry
‘Taxi Berber. Taxi Berber…’ Our elderly cab driver chuckles to himself as we zoom past another mule by the roadside, wearily carrying more local indigenous people on its resilient back. The chaos we’ve left behind in Marrakesh’s medina has now been ... Read more >
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Mon, 11 May 2015 | By roadskipper | Views [196] | Scholarship Entry
From Winston Churchill to the Rolling Stones to Branjelina, it seems everyone wants to come to Marrakech. But what about travelling to a place where bearded men dressed in flowing robes lurk, waiting to pounce for gold, for sex and heavens forbid, to ... Read more >
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Fri, 1 May 2015 | By mrjamesnixon | Views [176] | Scholarship Entry
Anybody who grew up on a similarly ordered and polite, middle-class estate as I did would appreciate the overwhelming exhilaration of being flung into the melee that is Marrakesh’s Old Town. My father and I had finally chosen to fulfill a lingering ... Read more >
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Wed, 29 Apr 2015 | By phoebelee | Views [274] | Scholarship Entry
In the middle of a deserted stretch of road, in a remote part of Morocco, I found myself. Everything I had used to distract me from my life had been stripped away and there was nothing left but me. In the middle of nowhere I connected with a culture that ... Read more >
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Mon, 27 Apr 2015 | By kieranhawkyard | Views [255] | Scholarship Entry
The bus was full and the journey went very fast. I knew that we had arrived because more and more people were beginning to emerge, rushing around profusely. It was, however, greatly fascinating, I could feel my eyes pulsing, moving from side to side, ... Read more >
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