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After spending four weeks around southern Morocco, we’ve collated a collection of questions our kids asked while we there! What the guide book doesn’t tell you about Southern Morocco is everything the guide books won’t tell you about the areas from Agadir down to Sidi Ifni and from Marrakech down to Zagora. Why does it...
The Bahia Palace in Marrakesh sits in a triangle between the Mellah, the Medina and the Kasbah. It’s construction started in the late 19th century, intended to be the greatest palace of its time with its name meaning “brilliance”. It was designed to capture the essence of the Islamic and Moroccan style in a a 2-acre (8,000...
I usually avoid leaving bad reviews on here. If I have nothing really positive to say, I tend just to avoid the subject. However after four days in Sidi Ifni we left early and headed back to Agadir to spend our only night in a hotel. We try really hard to ‘live like locals’ and show...
El Badi Palace El Badi is a ruined palace on the outskirts of Marrakesh’s medina walls. El Badi actually means ‘The Incomparable Palace’ and it was commissioned by a Sultan in 1578. Its construction was entirely funded by a ransom which was paid by the Portuguese after the Battle of Alcazar (the Three Kings). Very briefly,...
Marrakech’s streets are overflowing with stray dogs and cats, both dead and alive. Not to mention the awfully abused working donkeys, mules and horses but that’s for an entirely separate blog post! Human rights in Morocco are particularly poor so it is of little consolation or surprise that animal rights are low down the pecking...
Being vegan (or vegetarian) in Marakech is relatively easy IF you want to eat vegetable couscous, vegetable tagine or bread all day. So if you’re a bit like us and bored of couscous after three meals, it’ll be a little uninspiring. Here are the vegetarian and vegan friendly places in Marrakech that we’ve tried and more...
