Posts in Tag: Adventurers Abroad
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Australia with Adventures Abroad
Alison and I have just completed another journey of a lifetime with Adventures Abroad. This time it was the vast continent of Australia and in this post I’ll explain why I thought this itinerary was about the best way to get an introduction to The Land Down Under. Realistically, just as you could not expect […]
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Ballestas Islands – Peru’s Offshore Birding Paradise
In the last post we got the Adventures Abroad Kingdoms of the Andes tour off to a great start with a fly over of the mysterious Nazca Lines. In this post we’ll stay in the Paracas area, but take a boat rather than a plane to explore the birding haven of the Ballestas Islands where […]
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Nazca Lines – See Them to Believe Them
In my last post I gave my many reasons for visiting Peru and Bolivia with Adventures Abroad and one near the very top was a flyover of the mysterious Nazca Lines. In this post I’ll give the details of that flyover and why, for me, it was not the anticlimax that others, including some close […]
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Marrakech – Magical, Mysterious and Maddening
This is my 18th and final post from the October 2025 Quintessential Tour of Morocco by Adventures Abroad. It will feature Morocco’s most popular tourist destination, Marrakech which at over 10 million overnight stays in 2024 accounts for fully 40% of all overnight stays in Morocco. As I have noted in previous posts, Morocco is […]
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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 […]