11 reasons why I fall in love with Morocco
as long as I can remember. I always wanted to ride a camel, you will find in the desert, labyrinthine medinas to explore and drink tea with the Berbers.
When I the Sahara one morning stood overlooking the rhythmic, undulating dunes of the desert staun, I realized that my dream came true.
For miles around the dunes as rolled reddish waves in the sea. I had driven a camel to the point where at night I would look a million stars, on the fact I was smiling finally somewhere I had dreamed away under the same stars thousands of miles off.
for two weeks, I traveled across the country on Intrepid Travel Best of Morocco Tour and gorged myself on couscous, drinking my body weight in mint, hiked, and absorbed the sights and sounds of Morocco.
of all these moments, these are my favorite were experiences from the trip:
in the Sahara camel trekking
While I wish you could have the old camel caravans travel from Morocco to Egypt, I settled for a night under the stars. It turned out a camel for an hour riding is quite unpleasant, but up close and personal to see the beautiful color of the desert, with Bedouin Camping and without light pollution made it worth a million star gazing. There is an eerie silence in the desert when the wind dies down and you feel a great sense of calm, just sitting and being in nature
Fun fact :. It was raining while I was in the desert. It was a crazy, crazy storm - one of the most intense I've ever seen. The roar of thunder sounded like a million bombs going off, and the flash the night away. It had rained not to let all year long, but that night the sky all the rage opened for a brief moment to release it. Surreal.
Walking in the Atlas Mountains
The Atlas Mountains cover most of Morocco, and we spent much time in the low, medium and high parts of the area (it is hard not to). My favorite part was when we go through the High Atlas range, reach for one hour climbing a small farmhouse where we stayed the night with a local family (the cooked us the most delicious tajine dinner and Berber omelet of the trip).
arriving early and late the next day, we had plenty of time to wander around and explore. I love a good walk, so I really enjoyed the opportunity to commune with nature out, walking through riverbeds and see Mt. Toubkal (North Africa's highest peak) in the distance. In addition to the camel ride, this was my favorite experience.
food at Café Clock
by many people recommended to me, and with locations in Marrakech and Fez, the Western-influenced cafe is known for its enormous and delicious camel Burger (much like spicy shawarma tastes). The food is excellent: the burger, green smoothies, and melt-in-your-mouth buttery chicken couscous I were as satisfactory ate here twice. And in the crazy and chaotic medinas every city offer the cafes an oasis of calm where you can recharge, Wi-Fi and cool with air conditioning. They also offer cooking classes and host regular events in any position!
lost in the Medinas first
The medinas are the historic heart of every city in Morocco: part residential, part mall, part grocery store. Find tossing and turning streets where shops, restaurants, markets and stores all roads in buildings to remain apparently too close together and too old line much longer. As someone who loves lost, the Medinas were sky. I spent hours back through wander, right turns to make to double, seemed known to walk through streets and squares, the type, and to find my way, only deliberately to go all over again lost. They were a maze I tried loved to solve, while also drinking tea, eating delicious and fragrant food and the sights
A word of warning :. Fez is a bit sketchy and uncertain, so do not go too far off the beaten track. Stick to roads with many people. I had a few close calls pickpockets and potential predators involved.
Exploring Volubilis
An important commercial center and the southernmost settlement from the Roman period, Volubilis is one of the best preserved (and least busy) such ruins in the world. I found it by tourists empty, not built and open in a way that close, you can see and you get up really the structures without back ten meters of barriers and be jostled by crowds. Most of the city has not yet been excavated, so the site has a very raw feel. I have seen on my travels to many Roman ruins, but I love this the best.
See Ait-Ben-Haddou
Although I didn 't get here spend too much time, this place of exploring kasbah s (fortified houses) was pretty amazing. It is the Hollywood of Morocco and in Game of Thrones Gladiator Lawrence of Arabia been identified and many other films. It was the most picturesque Ksar I saw what is probably why it is in every film! It plays into what people think an old Ksar -fortified village - should look like this. I have to climb through the streets and look up.
Enjoying the beach and seafood from Essaouira
My favorite city in Morocco, Essaouira is a few hours from Marrakech located on the Atlantic coast and is a popular seaside resort for tourists, especially the British. I loved the relaxed atmosphere of the city, the lack of touts, the sea air, and all the fresh fish.
Ensure in town to visit the wonderful fish market where all the small fishermen their day sell fishing. Then check the small fish stalls near the main square, where you can enjoy fresh seafood really cheap grilled. My friends and I "splurged" on a meal here for $ 75 USD total including a Hummer, eight tiger prawns shared four of us, two fish over a kilo and weighing half a kilo of squid. All this came with drinks, bread, salad and tea. (We ate there every day, and meals later were about $ 15 USD.) Scores Try # 5 and # 11 for the best fish!
Visiting Marrakech
exposed the chaotic pace, a city and the people always on the go. The famous Jemaa El Fna Square is really chaos each describes: get tens of thousands of people at night eating, shopping, henna tattoos to hear bands and storytellers, and wizards to watch (and snake during the day). It is one of the hectic but fascinating people watching places in the country. It still blows my mind how big and busy it was! (Compare that to the disappointing Saadian tombs, the one attraction that I would skip -. They are simple, the grounds are small, and overall it was just bland)
Eating lots of couscous and tajine
it until the end of my two weeks I was a little "out couscoused." that said, I dove head first into as much as possible to eat - I loved the flavors enjoy to see the regional diversity and really know to always estimate how long to prepare each dish increased. Tajine (cooked with meat, dates, nuts, cumin, turmeric, cinnamon and saffron in a clay pot) was by far my favorite Moroccan dish. Also worth a try is the Berber omelette is egg, tomatoes, onions and herbs cooked in a clay pot.
Drinking mint tea
I've never drank more tea than when I was in Morocco. In a country where "a beer" is not a thing, locals spare pots mint. There is even an art to pour it, the higher the pot, the better. I could not get enough of this minty, sweet treat and to sit in the teahouses watching football with the locals. I must have drunk a pot or two a day. Man, this stuff is addictive!
the call to prayer Hearing
While I was in front of predominantly Muslim countries in Southeast Asia, I have never seen, heard an Arab Muslim country or the call to prayer. It was something beautiful about the melodic nature of the call, and it was a big alarm clock at 5 am to see people in their white prayer clothes in the mosque gather a unique cultural experience was I could not help but to observe.
Morocco is an incredibly goal. Sometimes it has been tried, stressful, chaotic and overloaded my senses, but also for all strains of the journey, it was a country where I felt out of my element and I was really somewhere new and different. I loved the feel and everything else about Morocco
The editorial Note. I went to Morocco with Intrepid Travel on their Best of Morocco tour. It was part of my ongoing partnership with Intrepid Travel. They covered the cost of the tour, flight and meals.
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