Posts in Category: Africa
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Essaouira – My Favourite Moroccan City
In the last post from the October 2025 Quintessential Tour of Morocco by Adventures Abroad we returned to the Atlantic coast at Agadir and stopped at the surfing mecca of Taghazout before ending the day at Essaouira. In this post we’ll explore Essaouira, the only city I can think of that has all five vowels […]
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Taghazout – Morocco’s Surf City
In the last post from this October 2025 Adventures Abroad Quintessential Tour of Morocco we explored the almost tourist free city of Taroudannt and learned about how argan oil is extracted from the nuts of that exclusively Moroccan tree into a variety of products. In this post we will travel through the area where argan […]
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Taroudannt – A Medina Without Tourists
Chances are that when you think of the tourist hot spots in Morocco, Taroudannt would be far down the list. In fact, I bet it wouldn’t even be on the list; I know it wasn’t on mine. And yet, this turned out to be one of the most interesting days on this Adventures Abroad Quintessential […]
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Ait Benhaddou – Morocco’s Ultimate Ksar
In the last post from the October 2025 Adventures Abroad Quintessential Tour of Morocco our group visited Atlas Studios, the largest movie studio in Africa where movies like Gladiator and The Mummy were filmed. It was a fun and entertaining experience. In this post we’ll continue heading west to the city of Taroudannt where we will stay for […]
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Atlas Studios – Stars are Born
In what seems like a long time ago, but was less than a week, we visited the former Roman city of Volubilis on this Adventures Abroad Quintessential tour of Morocco. Our local guide pointed out some locations where scenes from the movie Gladiator were shot. We are now in the city of Ouarzazate which is known […]
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Kasbah Amridil and the Todra Gorge Circus
I can’t believe that this is already my eleventh post from the October, 2025 Adventures Abroad Quintessential Morocco Tour and we are just at the halfway point. We have already visited the Imperial cities of Rabat, Meknes and Fes, the Roman ruins of Volubilis and crossed the Atlas Mountains to the western edge of the […]
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Merzouga Dunes – Sunset in the Sahara
In the last post on this October, 2025 Adventures Abroad Quintessential Morocco tour our group began exploring the Tafilet oasis, the largest in the world and its principle settlement Rissani. In this post we will depart from the usual method of transportation and hop in SUVs that will transport us to the Merzouga area where […]
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Rissani – Gateway to Africa
In the last post from the October 2025 Adventures Abroad Quintessential Tour of Morocco our group transitioned from the Imperial cities of northwest Morocco to the edge of the Sahara Desert in the small city of Erfoud. Today we are going to venture to the nearby town of Rissani which is considered to be the […]
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Erfoud – Into the Sahara Desert
This is my seventh post from the October 2025 Quintessential Tour of Morocco by Canadian tour company Adventures Abroad. In the first six, our group of 17 spent our time exploring three of the four Imperial cities of Morocco, all of which are located in the northwest corner of the country. In this post we […]