Hanging at ORD
2023年5月3日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 8 °C
Easy start to the trip, very sparse lounge, but chill. Seat 6c, baby!
JFK Lounge
2023年5月3日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Chilling at Star Alliance Lounge, had to sweet talk the lady to let me in. Tracking Ann and Ron, they are at the terminal at pre-check..... A very thorough young man made me wait 15 minutes because ofもっと詳しく
Air France to Paris
2023年5月3日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
We made it! Next stop, Paris....
Day, evening walkabout
2023年5月4日, モロッコ
Flew in about 1:30 by the time we got our bags and shuttled over to the hotel. It was about 3:00 so we unpacked and cooled off a bit and our guy took us on a walkout and we ended up having dinner. Aもっと詳しく
Rabat Botanical gardens
2023年5月5日, モロッコ ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
A nice walk on a beautiful day outside of the gates of the main city and out to the botanic gardens, some really magnificent trees. I thought it was nice that it wasn't immaculately kept, we saw kidsもっと詳しく
Medina
2023年5月5日, モロッコ ⋅ 🌙 19 °C
When you walk out of the new city, the old city is called the Medina and there's a big old light red wall between them. It's the original city, I think before we Rabat became the capital and theyもっと詳しく
Lunch at La Menora
2023年5月5日, モロッコ ⋅ 🌙 19 °C
Great lunch place, we sat on the patio and I had a tagine of beef shank, dates, apricots, and almonds and it was bomb! The ladies had chicken with olives and lemon and I believe Ron had Moroccanもっと詳しく
Nouzhat Hassan Garden
2023年5月5日, モロッコ ⋅ 🌙 19 °C
After I dropped the kids off at the hotel for a nap, I went back out and there was a super pretty and well maintained garden close to the hotel. I was the only Westerner in there but I did good withもっと詳しく
St Peter's Cathedral
2023年5月5日, モロッコ ⋅ 🌙 19 °C
1930s art deco cathedral. The outside does have Moroccan influences but you can see the cross at the very top and know it's not a mosque. The building is ginormous, super huge, but when you go insideもっと詳しく
Mauseleum of Mohammed V
2023年5月6日, モロッコ ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Beautiful day, mausoleum is on a bluff where it seems like you can see most of the city, you can see the opera house, the skyscraper, the river, and the Atlantic. The guide said it is the number twoもっと詳しく
Kasbah
2023年5月6日, モロッコ ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Kasbah right on the river that meets the Atlantic Ocean, so beautiful and a perfect day, blue skies, no humidity. Tight walkways between tall white stuccoed buildings, reminded me of European smallもっと詳しく
La Halinka
2023年5月6日, モロッコ ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Oldest coffee shop in the region with great views and even better people watching. Our crew of 15 had nos-nos, Moroccan whiskey, and baked goods. Left to right, Betty, Zaid, Penny, Kathy, local, Debi,もっと詳しく
Musee Mohammed VI
2023年5月6日, モロッコ ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Contemporary art museum, some really cool pieces. A fellow traveler gave us the tip that Google lens will translate text which came in handy because all descriptions were in Arabic and French.
Underground liquor stop
2023年5月6日, モロッコ ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Since we are staying in a Medina and not a hotel in Fez, we had to bring our alcohol with us. Alcohol is against the Muslim religion and should not be consumed..... Yet there are underground liquorもっと詳しく
Last Rabat dinner: Dinarjat
2023年5月6日, モロッコ ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Had a delicious Moroccan meal served family style. Live music, dancing, singing. On the walk to the restaurant, it was very tight corridors with these cute little pots overhead and had some very coolもっと詳しく
Drive to Fez
2023年5月7日, モロッコ ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Drove to Fez through an agricultural region between the Rif and Atlas mountains. Saw lots of olive and persimmon trees and the persimmon trees were easy to spot because they were netted in hugeもっと詳しく
Fez Medina
2023年5月7日, モロッコ ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Wow, the people the sounds, the smells were pretty overwhelming in our first experience in a Medina. Watched a lady rolling out bread, which they use in lieu of utensils for all their meals. Felt likeもっと詳しく
Riad Authentic Palace
2023年5月7日, モロッコ
A Moroccan home that has been refurbished into a guest house, this Riad had 20 rooms, perfect for our group. Breakfast in the morning was simple and delicious, and the coffee was the best on theもっと詳しく
Al Attirine Madrasa
2023年5月8日, モロッコ ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
14th-century school for Islamic studies featuring ornate tile work & dramatic architecture. Beautiful carvings, they get the cedarwood wet and then carve it. What was interesting was the guide'sもっと詳しく
Fez Tannery
2023年5月8日, モロッコ ⋅ ☀️ 33 °C
Wow about sums it up. Did you know they soften hides for final product leather by soaking them in pigeon poop? Because of the ammonia? Yellow leather is more expensive than brown leather because theyもっと詳しく
Chergui Hotel: Arfoud
2023年5月11日, モロッコ ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
The hotel is truly an oasis in the Sahara. The pool was amazing last night, really helped lower my body temperature before bed. Very much reminds me of the Palm springs area, a very dry heat and tonsもっと詳しく
Fossiles Kasbah
2023年5月11日, モロッコ ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Went to the fossil factory, I was completely caught off guard. I didn't really understand how they make fossils like in a factory, but the fossils are so prevalent in the area, they cut them out ofもっと詳しく
Kasar Errachidia Province
2023年5月11日, モロッコ ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
Went to a tiny mini village called a Kasar, like a Kasbah in that it is a walled community but this one only has one door. We got to visit the school, and all the schools are easy to spot, it seems,もっと詳しく
Rissani Market & Lunch
2023年5月11日, モロッコ ⋅ ☀️ 34 °C
First full day in the Sahara, went to the weekly market in Rissani. I really enjoyed it because it was an open air market as opposed to the closed-in walls of the Fez Medina, but the vendors wereもっと詳しく
