La ville nouvelle, Marrakech

Posted by Mikaela (Morocco based) on September 10th, 2010 · Leave a comment

View from a Guèliz café… (Guèliz is the downtown area of Marrakech or, la ville nouvelle) Stylish Moroccan trendsetters in their aviator glasses and latest Diesel jeans. French businessmen in jeans, polished dress shoes and carefully coiffured hair. Tourists in their inappropriate clothes and sunburnt skin, clutching water bottles in the heat of the day. [...]

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A Moroccan adventure; climbing Mount Toubkal

Posted by Mikaela (Morocco based) on August 17th, 2010 · Leave a comment

Anwar (our MD) is a man with many missions. So many, that generally I can’t keep up. One of these recently stated missions is to climb the highest peak in a different mountain range each year. This year was Mont Blanc in the Alps. Last year was Mount Toubkal in the High Atlas mountains of [...]

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Kasbah Goundafi: Ouirgane to Tiz’n'Test

Posted by Mikaela (Morocco based) on June 14th, 2010 · Leave a comment

Often referred to as ‘one of Africa’s finest drives’, the road between Marrakech and Taroudant winds its way up and down, via the Tizi-n-Test pass, following an old trading route through the High Atlas mountains.  Along the way, you pass through the market town of Asni and the beautiful village of Ouirgane where the L’Amandier [...]

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