Mid-Atlas Village Life
Up into the Mid-Atlas Mountain range we climb, driving to the summer playground for the rich and famous in Morocco, the town of Ifrane, built with French chalets and beautiful… Read more »
Up into the Mid-Atlas Mountain range we climb, driving to the summer playground for the rich and famous in Morocco, the town of Ifrane, built with French chalets and beautiful… Read more »
Fes – the name evokes images of the exotic, distant travelers from another age leading their camels or walking with horses and sheep to bring the riches of the caravansary… Read more »
The light rain contains its own beauty as well as perils as we drive through winding roads on the way to Meknes. A beautiful full double rainbow appears over… Read more »
Chefchaouen is known as the Blue City — a beautiful small town build on a hillside, layers upon layers built up like a many-tiered cake over centuries, creating tall walls… Read more »
Across the narrow mouth guarded by the rock of Gibraltar, lies the coast that Greek myths were made of, Hercules and his 12 labors among others, and the place where… Read more »
For most Americans of my generation, the word “Casablanca” immediately evokes Humphrey Bogart in a white dinner jacket presiding over his cafe with Sam at the piano playing a lyric… Read more »
It is October 2018 and I am about to embark on a journey into Morocco with 11 stalwart companions. We will start in Casablanca and then move clockwise to the… Read more »
On the road to Bukhara: from our bus I see block walls and tin-roofed concrete houses with poplar and fruit trees. An ancient tractor on the road as well as… Read more »
Samarkand — the name evokes a very exotic place of great beauty with markets rich with spices and covered bazaars. The reality both matches this legend and at the… Read more »
Once we are through a pushing shoving crowd of people at the immigration post, we are in Uzbekistan – a very different world than Kyrgyzstan which has surprised all of… Read more »