Spent 14 days in Morocco. We had a good time ...

Morocco | Apr 27 - May 10, 2024

The food here is amazing. We ate here twice! In terms of the rooms it really depends on which room you got assigned to. The first room we were assigned to was super small and not sound proof, but the second room was super big and nice and quiet.

The hotel went above and beyond to make our experience great. They even organized a sand bread making experience for us and that was unforgettable. The room is exactly as pictured. You get toilet with flush and shower right in your desert tent. Note: There is no air con in this camp so it’s probably not the best spot for summer.

It was interesting but I wish our guide can speak better English. But perhaps given how remote this area is that is to be expected.

Everything was closed in the city except for the mausoleum and the souk. The guide tried his best but there was just not much there. I wish Kim Kim warned me about it ahead of time.

I enjoyed this drive we saw three seasons in one day so it was fun! Also we saw monkeys. The drive is super long though so be forewarned.

The drive was a bit boring but the small fossil museum has some very excellent specimens of trilobites and crinoids that you can walk up very close to. The water wells were also interesting.

I enjoyed the free time given to us to walk around the by the water but honestly Casablanca is a bit lacking as a city and our driver didn’t know much about the city.

We don’t like Fes, it’s the only city we felt unsafe in. Someone tried to scam us to led us somewhere weird and someone else chased us and a couple other people with a dog. If you have to skip a city skip this one. The tour guide himself was fine. He brought us to various places and often times he just leave us at each location to explore on our own. I love pottery but the coop we went to made mediocre work. I have seen much better artisans else where. Transportation wise, the driver leaves you at the edge of old city and you have to make the rest of the way yourself which wasn’t that pleasant to be honest.

The hike was fun! We liked walking around the slot canyons. The guide was a good hiking guide. He knows how to hike safely and brought us up and down the slopes. The lunch with the family was nice too.

Wish we can have more time at Rabat. The drive itself was a bit boring. Driver doesn’t know much about Rabat. We made a couple stops and was just told to get off and look by ourself. But Chefchoen was a really cute and nice town! We really enjoyed our visit there. We enjoyed walking around there it was safe and super pretty.

I love this spot. Way less busy than historical sites in Rome. The tour guide we had was very good. The lunch spot was decent.

This is one of those experience that wasn’t exactly fun per se but it was interesting enough because it was such a local experience (1% tourist and 99% local). There were so many people we couldn’t get a good spot for the parade so we just watched from afar. The parade was simple and short but it’s fun looking at the crowd and it was cool to see so many women and children out and about. We also went to a rose product store that is much loved by the locals - the price was definitely local price because all the locals were doing shopping sprees there for rose products. I also got to join a line dance with some local dancers so that was cool too.

Our guide stopped at many nice photo spots! This is closer to where our guide is from so he knows all the secret photo spots. We also bought some cool minerals from a road side shop. Note: The description mentioned visiting the movie studio but we were told by the driver we don’t have time to do that and I only got to see that studio’s gate.

The building was nice. We enjoyed the short tour. Overall pretty little garden.

I am glad we got a guide because otherwise I would have thought one of the movie prop was a historical gate. The guide brought us to one of the few houses still being inhabited. We got to look inside and that was interesting. Overall Ait Benhaddou is super busy so expect it to be overrun by tourists when you go. It is the way it is.

I really enjoyed the city. It has such a nice energy. To be honest by the time we got to Marrakesh we have already walked through many souks so some of the stuff we saw was a bit repetitive. However, the energy was different. Our guide was fine over all but he make up some facts for some questions we asked. I wish he would just tell us he doesn’t know.

Okay this is hands down the best equipped cooking class we ever did. Everyone gets their own station and it was super organized! Nothing but love for this experience!

Honestly, kind of a boring ride

The guide we got for this place was SO good. We only spent an hour with him but I learned so much. Some people may ask why you want to visit a Roman ruin when you can just go to Italy, but if you enjoy history I think it’s worth coming here as it’s the southern reach of the Roman Empire and it’s a bit different than what you see in Rome yet familiar at the same time. In Italy the nice ruins are all quite busy and you can’t get close to things. Here it was so quiet and peaceful and you can walk anywhere you want.

We had fun zooming in the desert. We didn’t see many people on the dunes so we felt like we were alone in the wild instead of being in a tourist trap. The guide was nice and took a few cool videos for us.

The spa we ended up going to was not the same spa that the organizer said we would be going to. I was a little disappointed because of that and kind of wished I booked my own spa experience. However, the service and experience was good over all. It just wasn’t the spa I wanted to go to.

I liked the building but the tour was a bit lacking. Large group tour + not that much info given.

I have ridden horses all over the world but this is the first time I felt really bad for the horses and a bit unsafe riding. 1. The horses don’t get breaks between rides so they are super tired and irritable. 2. One of the horses we rode on was sick and sneezing the whole time. 3. Because the horses are tired and irritable one of them was constantly aggravating other horses. One of our horses almost went into a fight and the horse it almost fought with then went ahead and fought another horse and the two bucked off their riders 4. Usually you are supposed to take off saddle after a ride but of course since there’s no breaks for the poor horses the saddles stay on

The old man that guided us around was nice and pointed out some super cool things in the little city that we wouldn’t have noticed if he didn’t. We didn’t eat with him and we didn’t need transport so I am not rating food and transport. We enjoyed this leisurely tour.

By far the better camel ride between the two we took. When you riding into camp around sunset, everyone else is riding in so it’s super busy. But for sunrise no one else is round so you really get to experience the peacefulness of the desert.

We ended up visiting a family in Marrakech outskirts instead of Fez because the Fez family cancelled on us last minute. The family we visited was super nice. We had cookies in their backyard and they showed us how they cooked the food and we had dinner at the living rooms. The food was super home made and tasty. I wish I get to hang out more with the ladies of the house more but they mostly stayed in the kitchen only and didn’t eat with us.

We had a lot of tasty stops. Come hungry. We didn’t each lunch that day and we were still not hungry enough for this tour! We were so full by the end of the experience we had to take the cookies to go.