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We didn’t really know what to expect of Azerbaijan, much less its capital, Baku. We knew it was a southern European post-Communist-bloc country (for which our primary reference was a previous trip to Bulgaria) and had an on/off war with neighboring Armenia over the border area of Nagorno-Karabakh. It was never on our travel agenda […]
And then we were on to our last stop in Morocco: Casablanca. Although settled as early as the 7th century by Berber tribes, Casablanca began attracting international attention in the15th century when Portugal virtually destroyed the town for harbored privateers who were plaguing its ships. It began attracting more favorable attention in the 18th century […]
Our next stop in Morocco was Marrakesh. Founded in 1062, the city quickly grew as a royal city, complete with a palace, a huge mosque and an underground water system. Its defeat by another tribe only served to enhance its elegance and position, as when the new rulers built new monuments such as a kasbah […]
Today’s long, 5.5-hour drive with our driver/guide Moha, from Over Morocco, took us partway from Erg Chebbi to Marrakesh via a route that threads the country’s two greatest mountain ranges. It is also studded with many historic ksars and ksours and ventures into the edge of the High Atlas for a drive through the Toudra […]
A Night at the Erg Chebbi Dunes While the drive through Morocco’s Atlas Mountains was beautiful, one of the highlights of our 4 day journey was to be the dramatic Erg Chebbi dunes. These extend about 20 miles from the stony, semi-desert beginnings to steep—up to 820 feet-high—dunes for as far as the eye can […]
As we continued on our journey through Morocco’s Atlas Mountains to Marrakesh through the Atlas Mountains with our excellent driver/guide Moha, from Over Morocco, we set out the next morning on the remainder of the way to the Erg Chebbi dunes, driving through the sparsely vegetated rock desert of the Mid Atlas mountains, and up […]