Region de Grand Casablanca Vacations, Region de Grand Casablanca Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

As much as I would like to go to Marrakesh today, it is really impossible because we don't have enough time.  The train ride (total of 8hours) is longer than our "would be visit" there.  I just decided to explore Casablanca again, going to the souks and challenge my bargaining skills.  Anyways, you can always find great stuff and souviener items here.  We had dinner at the Corniche, in a place called. It is 630 in the afternoon but the sun is still up.  We were so hun…

This trip was booked through www.gate1travel.com.  It is fantastic and comprehensive tour agency and I strongly recommend using them! My intention was to write daily blogs for this trip, but sometimes one gets so involved in the journey that one does not have the time or energy to express their experiences in words.  And this was definitely one of those times!  I do believe, however, that my pictures truly speak for themselves. Here was our travel plan from Gate 1 …

Lazy last day spent doing a few organisational things like confirm Etihad flight out tonight over at their office at the Sheraton Hotel, repack, repack, repack again! after collecting laundry (150MAD - Over $20 AUD). Getting hotel Ajiad to ring and confirm my taxi for 5p.m. was like asking for a free meal or something...was it REALLY so hard? Write and send those last couple of postcards. I actually hung out in the hotel lounge for a few hours as it was the quietest place to be.... Ta…

We finally arrived in Casablanca and proceeded to head to the architectural wonder that is the Hassan II mosque. This is the second largest mosque in the world, following the Blue Mosque in Turkey, which is the largest. There we were strolling through the massive courtyard outside the mosque with our second tour guide Rashid (Asham left us in Rabat, was it something we said :-)) We did not know that we needed to purchase our tickets to enter the mosque by a certain time, so we were ju…