morocco

I’ve never felt more welcome in a country, I’ve never felt more unwelcome in a country. Morocco. Here are 18 reasons I’ll be back: Also see: 3 months in morocco by campervan – Here’s what I did 1.The music I’ve never heard such an interesting mix of styles and instruments. The music is heavily ingrained into […]

I got to Morocco in my van and wanted to leave after one week. But then I just totally lost track of time and before I knew it my 3 month visa was up and I didn’t want to leave. Here’s what I did travelling Morocco in my van (and a round up of the Morocco […]

Morocco is just 8 miles away from Europe but it feels like thousands. It’s a completely different culture to Europe – that’s why I came here – and It took me a while to get used to. Here are 25 things that might be useful to know before coming to Morocco – there are probably […]

Morocco is a country that goes from dry hot desert to alpine freshness in a few hundred km! I found this nice lake whilst driving north though the Middle Atlas of Morocco and thought I’d share it with you – location at the end. The Middle Atlas region (photos below) is the opposite extreme to […]

Buying things in the souks (a souk is an Arabic market) of Morocco can be hard work, confusing and sometimes just annoying if you’re a tourist. If you ask the price of something, you enter a 2 way discussion and are usually expected to buy at the end of it – especially if you accepted the […]

Morocco has over 5000 monkeys (Barbary Macaque) living wild in the mountains. We went to go and find some. Here is our meeting with the wild monkeys living in Morocco’s Cedar Forest (near Azrou) and the spots where you’ll find them – see last picture. This post was originally about the cedar forest, with the […]

We wanted to go to the Sahara desert (Morocco) so we got in the van and drove there. We didn’t plan anything but it all worked out well. Here’s what happened: We picked this guy up, Abdoul I was with Mona (from Germany – she was on the blog last summer here). We stopped to […]

I met this girl. She’s called Leah Shann. We spent 8 days together in the van. This is Leah… I picked her up from Marrakech We went straight to the coast and ran into the sea We got dry by the fire And kind of went surfing in the morning See this post: Surfing in Taghazout […]

A begian guy (Jean Verame) came here in the 80s and spent 3 months painting loads of the rocks blue with the help of a team of Moroccan firemen. What? People hate it, people love it. Let me show you… The blue rocks are just a few km south of Tafraoute in Morocco You go […]

Tafraoute is a cool place. I’ve never seen landscape quite like this. The town is super friendly and it just has a good feel about it. I kind of wish I found this place sooner. There’s no trouble with camping in the van here – totally different to the coast. I came here after Taghazout. […]