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Water is life
A few days' of reflection in Morocco's holiest city – Moulay Idriss Zerhoun Cara Ghassemian Copyright AIMTours 2024 Aziz my driver and I arrived from Casablanca, in Moulay Idriss Zerhoun, the most holy city in Morocco, after dark. We woke the next morning in our...
Exploring the Disappearing Traditions and Vanishing Flavours of Morocco’s Culinary Heritage
By Tara Stevens, who, incidentally, will be cooking some of this food for those of you doing the Disappearing Morocco Tour with us, 13-21 October 2024. Contact us now, if you are interested in the last two spots! holidays@aussiesinmoroccotours.com.au In the...
The MARABOUTS of Mystic Morocco + Photographs from our Recent Group Tour
The marabout @ Sidi Kaouki, by the sea Recently, while leading a small group tour, I stayed at a village called Sidi Kaouki for a few days. It was an amazing place and imprinted on my mind forever is the man, dog and wild donkey running along the sea’s edge in...
Buying a Caftan & Bijouterie to Celebrate the Blessed Arrival of a Newborn Daughter in Southern Morocco
Moroccan Style If you think that buying a local ensemble is a simple act of entering a shop and selecting what you like, think again. Cara recently had a couple of her local Moroccan friends from the desert in the south, Mouna and Soumia, take her on a shopping...
Through the mind’s eye: Exploring ancient Moroccan Ksars – some facts and further on, some feelings (mine).
I have a feeling in Morocco, particularly in the traditional south, of an omnipresent “nowness”, with no estranged or compartmentalised past or future; where, with the same acceptance for the shifting shapes of the sand dunes, human artefacts are let go of thoughtlessly and human memories float off easily
The Magic and Mysticism of Moroccan Food
When I moved to Morocco I first fell in love with the food, then with the power inherent within it. Whenever I got a cold my house manager would whip me up a brew of honey, lemon, cinnamon and olive oil. Something she drinks every day to keep coughs and colds...