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Nins' Travelog · 2W ago

Packing List

Unlike most women, I used to travel light whenever I went on trip, either day trip, overnight business trip or backpacking with friends/sister. Here is my packing list for those travels: ESSENTIAL: passport, tickets, address book, mobile phone (in the old days, we did’t use mobile, but we relied on
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Nins' Travelog · 4W ago

Berber Living

I heard the name Berber from an Algerian friend, as she said the Berber people was very European looking instead of North African/Arab looking, I was wondering who they were and how they looked.   As I visited Morocco in February, the word Berber popped up a few times; but who are they?    According
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Nins' Travelog · 1M ago

Moroccan Landscape

All the time my image of Africa was desert like, Morocco was not an exception. That image was still with me when I browsed the internet looking for a Tour Agent that could take Keith and I to Morocco. Their pictures uploaded were almost always showing touring across the desert by camel with a Tuareg
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Nins' Travelog · 1M ago

The King Hassan II Mosque

King Hassan II Mosque is the largest mosque in Morocco and claims to be the 2nd largest in the world;  it is only behind the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Designed with Moorish influences by French architect Michel Pinseau, the construction began in July 1986 on reclaimed land, — almost half of it from the
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Nins' Travelog · 1M ago

Rick’s Cafe

Rick’s Cafe was made famous in the legendary movie, Casablanca. The movie was set in this particular cafe. I thought Rick was a myth made famous in the movie. however, my other half insisted to go to Rick’s Cafe, “There must be a Rick’s Cafe here…;” When we talked to other travelers, we found out [.
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Nins' Travelog · 1M ago

Inside Fes el Bali

Traveling with a guided tour may not always be convenient, as time wise you are restricted and you are isolated. Or at least that was what I feeling before I visited Morocco. But I can not complain, as this way we saw a lot in a limited time. To visit Fès, one needs to be [...]
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Nins' Travelog · 2M ago

Going to Medina at Fès

Although I live in Doha, with it’s “traditional” Arabian souq, the real souq I have seen and which fascinated me was the souq in Aleppo.   However, we are in Fez today, our tour started from the Jewish Quarter, and our guide said that this is the ‘organized’ area of the city compared to the real [..
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Nins' Travelog · 2M ago

Rabat, the capital of Morocco

Rabat is less well known than Casablanca, and many do not know that today Rabat is the capital of Morocco. However, the history of Morocco says that it has experienced several capitals, and Rabat became the administrative capital only since Moroccan’s Independence from France in 1952.  It is located
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Nins' Travelog · 2M ago

Casablanca

The city of Casablanca was romanticised by the movie Casablanca.   However, today, apart form being Morocco’s economic capital, Casablanca doesn’t offer much to the tourist. The only tourist attraction in Casablanca is the Hassan II Grand Mosque, which is the biggest mosque outside the Holy cities o
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Nins' Travelog · 2M ago

The Atlas Medina Hotel in Marrakech

We stayed in the Atlas Medina Hotel, Marrakech, a 5 star hotel, a very spacious hotel with a lot of room as a lounge where people can sit and wait and even do rendezvous with out being annoyed of people asking you what to order. Like this:Be the first to like this post.
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