Once again, we were early to rise for a few hour train ride to Casablanca. The scenery along the way was beautiful, but in particular we enjoyed the view of the inside of our eyelids the most… Upon arrival in…
Movie Sets & Iftar
For our last day in the desert, we started bright and early and hit the road. Our first stop (after a couple bouts of napping on both sides of the backseat) was to see the famous fortified village (ksar) of Ait Benhaddou where scenes from…
Morocco is Gorges!
Fun fact: being “gently” awoken by Berbers gently clapping at 4:15am is still NOT a nice way to wake up. Just for the record, in case anyone was wondering, this is what happened, and we hated it. However, it was…
Sun, stars and drums… Not to mention camels!
The day started at an early 8am as we needed to get going to beat the heat, which was forecasted at a scorching 104 F. Our first activity was a bit of 4-wheeling in the rock desert or “Reg” in…
Destination: Desert
We knew we had to be up early to start our desert tour, but an overly enthusiastic rooster had us up a bit earlier than intended… Stupid bird! However, the fowl wake up call did have the benefit of giving…
Fes Wanderings
Per usual, after a hearty breakfast of flour-based things at our riad, we started out day. We opted to spend a couple hours focused on blog updates, given we had pretty decent internet, allowing us to upload pictures. Afterwards, we…
Finally Fes
We awoke to a gloriously sunny morning – a bit heartbreaking as we had no time for further explorations as we were hopping an early morning bus from Chefchouen to Fes. After a 5 hour bus ride (which Jess had…
We Found a Blue House with a Blue Window…
We woke up groggy in Tangier, and stumbled off the train to find a taxi to the bus station. We asked the first driver that we saw, and he laughed and turned around to point across the street… the bus…
Mean (“but Not Pushy”) Streets of Marrakech
After a lovely breakfast of breads and spreads, bowls of coffee (seriously) and fresh OJ on terrace upstairs we were ready to dive back into the fray that is Marrakech. Our guide, Amin, met us at the riad and took…
Ciao ciao Croatia, Saluté Morocco
A tactically positioned AirBnB and a ridiculously easy-to-navigate airport made saying ‘so long’ to Dubrovnik a piece of cake. Sadly, it’s not easy (or cheap) to get a direct flight from Croatia to Morocco, so we found ourselves flying all…