Morocco – The Atlas Mountains and The Sahara Desert
April 2024 Just a few years ago, I spent a very long time in Morocco. However, I had an opportunity…
Morocco
Bringing Water to the Desert
April 2024 Ancient water systems are fascinating. The Qanat system originated approximately 3,000 years ago in what is now Iran.…
Architecture of Morocco
April 2024 Berber Architecture The Berbers built traditional kasbahs and fortifications. The Berber clans were often fending off invaders, so…
Morocco – Architectural Elements
April 2024 Zellij Tile Morocco isn’t Morocco without the Zellij tile. Zellij is a style of mosaic tilework made from…
Odds and Ends – Morocco
April 2024 Valley of the Roses The M’Goun Valley is known as the Valley of the Roses in Morocco and…
Casablanca
January 5, 2020 El Jadida A one and one-half hour train ride from Casablanca is El Jadida. Within the city…
Moving Medinas Into the Future
December 2019 Morocco has six Medina’s on the World Heritage List, and I started to wonder why. Was it to…
The Characters of the Medina
December 2019 Gnawa Dancers These dancers can be seen in most every Medina in Morocco. They are simply creating a…
Wandering the Desert outside of Marrakech
January 2, 2020 Palmeraie If you drive into Marrakech, you will most likely pass Palmeraie (palm grove). It is a…
The Jardin Majorelle
December 31, 2019 The Majorelle Garden was designed by the French artist, Jacques Majorelle (1886-1962). In 1917 Majorelle was sent…
Marrakech, Medina
December 30, 2019 There comes a time in a country when you realize that much of what you are seeing…
Meknes, Morocco
December 26, 2019 Meknes was first settled in the 9th century by the Miknasa a southern Tunisian Berber tribe. In…
The New Medina – Fes el-Jadid
December 22, 2019 The Fes el-Jadid is the new part of the Fes Medina founded by the Marinids in 1276…
Fes, Morocco
December 19, 2019 Fes (Fez) overwhelms when you are 10 miles out. There are over 1.4 million people living in…
A day trip out of Fes
December 20, 2019 Volubilis Volubilis was founded by the Berber people in the 3rd century BCE and was part of…
The Blue City
December 18, 2019 Chefchaouen This is by far the most tourist town I have seen in Morocco. There are more…
The Labors of Hercules
December 16, 2019 Cave of Hercules The cave is part natural and part man-made. The man-made part was used by…
Tangier: A city with a fascinating history
December 14, 2019 Tangier (French Tanger, Spanish Tánger, Arabic Ṭanjah) has an interesting connection with the United States. Morocco was…
Rabat, Morocco
December 13, 2019 Day 2 in Rabat was spent finding a few more UNESCO World Heritage sites and exploring a…
Rabat, Morocco
December 12, 2019 Rabat is the capital of Morocco and yet it is not really high on the tourism trail.…