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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 public telephone booths), credit card, [...]
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 [...]
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 Atlantic [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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