Category Intrepid Tours
Europe 2025 – Intrepid Morocco – Tangier, Part One
April 19 – 20 Our train trip to Tangier would be a different experience from the one that took us to Rabat. We were booked on the high-speed train for a journey of about three hours. It would run 550 Dirhams ($61) for the two of us in a coach that rivaled its European counterparts […]
Europe 2025 – Intrepid Morocco – Rabat, Part Two
April 17 – 18 Leaving Chellah in another Tuk Tuk for the same fee as before, we rode the mile and a half to an esplanade that contains both the Mausoleum of Mohammed V and the Hassan Tower. The Mausoleum contains the tombs of the Moroccan king Mohammed V and his two sons, King Hassan […]
Europe 2025 – Intrepid Morocco – Rabat, Part One
April 17 – 18 With another early morning departure, this time to catch our train to Rabat, we asked the desk clerk the night before about a taxi and they said it could be arranged, but when we asked the morning clerk, the contacts he normally uses were not available. The three of us then […]
Europe 2025 – Intrepid Morocco – Marrakech, Part Two
April 14 – 16 For our hot air balloon ride the next day we needed to be up and out quite early, something like 6:30 so we walked out to the small plaza just outside the pedestrian lanes to the Riad. After a short wait, a driver picked us up and then made a couple […]
Europe 2025 – Intrepid Morocco – Marrakech, Part One
April 14 – 16 After another nice breakfast at the Riad we climbed into the van for the last leg of our tour, the short drive to Marrakech. On the way down out of the mountains we stopped at a viewpoint overlooking a terraced valley reminiscent of those we’d seen in Peru and the twisting, […]
Europe 2025 – Intrepid Morocco – Fes to Marrakech, Part Two
April 11 – 13 Our in-home lunch would again be a treat, with plenty of delicious food, this time including pita bread, cold vegetables, roasted chicken, warm noodles and kebabs, both chicken and beef. Washed down with tea, and a variety of sodas, it was more than enough to keep me full until the next […]
Europe 2025 – Intrepid Morocco – Fes to Marrakech, Part One
April 11 – 13 We set out the next morning for the beginning of three days of travel that would lead us to Marrakech, the final stop of our tour. We would spend three nights in three different locations, first at Sahara camp, next near Todra Gorge, and finally in Alt Benhaddou. That drive from […]
Europe 2025 – Intrepid Morocco – Fes, Part Three
April 9 – 10 We’d met our guide for the medina at the Bab Bou Jeloud City Gate and he led us through the street that comprised the Jewish quarter where we climbed back into the van for a ride out to the Art Naji Pottery and Tile shop, first stopping at an overlook that […]
Europe 2025 – Intrepid Morocco – Fes, Part Two
April 9 – 10 Leaving Moulay Idriss, it was a short drive to Volubilis, a partly excavated Berber-Roman city that may have been the capital of the Kingdom of Mauretania. Built in a fertile agricultural area, it developed from the 3rd century BC onward as a Berber, then proto-Carthaginian settlement before being the capital of […]
Europe 2025 – Intrepid Morocco – Fes, Part One
April 9 – 10 As mentioned in the earlier post, we were scheduled to meet with our tour group at 6:00pm in Cities, the hotel restaurant. Joanna and I went downstairs a few minutes early and finding seats at one of the tables, ordered a drink apiece while we waited to start. Mine would be […]
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