Archive for January, 2008

Maison Mnabha

32-33 Derb Mnabha Kasbah
Marrakech, Morocco
Once inside the Maison Mnabha, the surreal sense intensified as the owner offered us crystal glasses filled with fresh orange juice in the lavish candle-lit, columned receiving room that had been the heart of a 17th century home. Bright colours and intricate designs on ceiling beams, interior columns, plaster walls and [...]

La Maison Arabe

1, Derb Assehbé- Bab Doukkala
Marrakech, Morocco
La Maison Arabe is part of Marrakesh history and was the first boutique hotel to open in the medina. It offers a sumptuous level of accommodation with some of the best service in town. La Maison Arabe predates most of Marrakech’s current crop of riad hotels, the compound-like guest houses [...]

Acrobats in Djemaa el Fna

Djemaa el Fna is the main and most crowded square of Marrakech, simply the heart and symbol of the Imperial city. A world of fun with storytellers, snake charmers, magicians, acrobats, jugglers. This is an extremely funny place despite Djemaa el Fna means literally meeting of dead.
Have a look the selection of Marrakech videos below

Finding cheap flights to Morocco…

In the past trying to find cheap flights to Morocco,  I flew to southern, Spain got a ferry services that run between Spain & Morocco.
Air fares from the UK to Morocco have been coming down a lot recently, so the difference between fares to Spain and fares to Morocco is getting less. For example, Atlas [...]

RRR La Trattoria

179 Rue Mohammed el Beqqal, T 044-432641. To locate, find La Taverne (opposite Cinéma Le Colisée near rond-point Abd el Moumen), which is on corner of Blvd Zerktouni and Rue Mohammed el Beqqal. La Trattoria is 2 blocks down, near to Café L’Amandine. The soul of the original owner, the baroque Gian Carlo, hovers over [...]