From the experiences and the mind of Cara Ghassemian. (Copyright 2024, AIMTours. All rights reserved). You may already know that the five-pointed green star on the red Moroccan flag represents the five pillars of Islam, which in descending order of significance are...

A few days' of reflection in Morocco's holiest city – Moulay Idriss Zerhoun Cara Ghassemian Copyright AIMTours 2024 (New photos added 22 June 2024) Aziz my driver and I arrived from Casablanca, in Moulay Idriss Zerhoun, the most holy city in Morocco, after dark. We...

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 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...

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...

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