My last morning in Morocco.  Had my last breakfast with the group early that morning. After breakfast Bronwyn and I went back to our room to g...

I was a little tired after my "adventures" in Chefcahouen so ending up dozing off for a bit on the bus.  We finally arrived, af...

After breakfast, a few of us decided to take a guided walking tour with Mustafa in the medina in beautiful Chefchaouen.  Mustafa led us...

We left Fes early in the morning after breakfast to continue on our journey to Chefchaouen.  We made a stop at Volubilis where Mustafa took us...

Old Fes is described as "one of the most complete medieval cities left in the world today and the spiritual heartbeat of Morocco".  About 300,...

After leaving Ifrane, we stopped for lunch. After lunch we headed down the mountains to Meknes where we stopped and visited the Mausoloeum of Moula...

After breakfast, we loaded up our gear and off we went on our way to the city of Fes via the Middle Atlas Mountains with several stops al...

We then made a stop in the picturesque village of Ifrane. The French created Ifrane in 1929 and some say it has a distinctly French Alps ...

Leaving the Sahara that day for me was bittersweet. I felt blessed and extremely happy at having at least spent a day and night in the Sahara,...

The Berbers woke us up at 5:00 in the morning by playing their drums (Berber alarm clock). Let me tell you, when they say it can get really cold&nb...

After breakfast, a few us decided to go on a two-hour, guided walking tour along the Todra Valley's palmerie. As we walked through the valley, our ...

That afternoon, we finally arrived to the hotel at the edge of the desert where we met our guides, the Blue Men of the Desert (the Berbers) wh...

Early the next morning we left Quarzazate and headed off to Todra Gorge. We drove by such amazing and beautiful landscapes, pas...

We left Marrrakech the next morning. As we stowed our gear in the back of our minivan/tour bus, we noticed that we now had a third driver, Achraf. ...

This morning one of my fellow Kumuka tour mates, Anna, and I headed out to the Hammam. The hammam, descended from the Roman bath, is the Moroccan v...

This morning we had a walking tour with our guide, Mustafa, and visited a mosque, an old palace and a madras (school where they study the Koran) be...

We finally arrived in Marrakech. That evening we went out for dinner and a show at a beautiful former palace-cum-restaurant inside the medina.

We left our hotel early that morning (9:00, of course) and headed out to explore and have lunch in the medina in Essaouria before heading to our ne...

Once again, we piled our gear in our bus and headed out of Casablanca at 9:00  in the morning for the very picturesque seaside village of Essa...

We piled into our tour minivan bus and left our hotel in Rabat at 9:00 in the morning (will be a common theme throughout my journey, 9:00 am). We d...

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 ...

We stowed all our gear into the back of our minivan tour bus and left our hotel in the morning and stopped at Cape Spartal, which is Africa's most ...

Well my flight from JFK was a little delayed, but not too bad. I arrived in Madrid in the morning and still had a little time until my connecting f...

Finally, October 12 was here.  After putting in a full days' work at the office (remind never to do that again), I got in my cab and off ...