Posts in Tag: Adventurers Abroad
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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 […]
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Fes Medina – 9,000 Ways to Get Lost
In the last post from the Adventures Abroad Quintessesntial Tour of Morocco we arrived in the fabled city of Fes, Morocco’s second city and the home of the world’s largest medina. Covering 280 hectares or about 700 football fields, it is home to over 150,000 residents along with hundreds and hundreds of shops and restaurants. […]
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Fes – Morocco’s Most Interesting City
The Quintessential Tour of Morocco with Adventures Abroad is truly underway. In just three days we have visited three UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Rabat, Volubilis and Meknes with more to come as we move on to the ancient imperial city of Fes. However, before visiting the world’s largest medina for which the city is famous, […]
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Meknes – Morocco’s Overlooked Imperial City
Morocco is an unusual country in that it has had four different capital cities over the course of its history. We’ve already visited the current capital Rabat on this Adventures Abroad Quintessential Tour of Morocco and found it to be a very quiet, green and clean contrast to the hustle and bustle of Casablanca. In […]
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Morocco with Adventures Abroad
Alison and I are decompressing at the Eden Andalou resort just outside of Marrakech after a hectic and very exciting 17 day tour of Morocco with Adventures Abroad. As with all our Adventures Abroad trips I will start off with an overview post which I hope will give the reader a fair assessment of whether […]
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Auckland – New Zealand’s Oceanic Metropolis
Almost 40% of all the people in New Zealand live in the Auckland metro area, making it one of the most dominant cities vis a vis the country as a whole and the city next in line, of any country in the world. Christchurch, the second largest city at just under 400,000 is less than 25% […]
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Moais of Rapa Nui
In the last post from this unparalleled trip to Chile with Adventures Abroad our group reached our final destination, Rapa Nui, aka Easter Island. In that post I wrote about everything on the island except the main reason we were there, to see the giant statues known as moais that are unique to Rapa Nui. […]
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El Tatio Geysers – Highest in the World
In the last post from this epic trip to Chile with Adventures Abroad we ventured into the driest place on Earth outside of Antarctica, the Atacama desert and found a landscape that was almost surreal in its transcendent beauty. Day two in Atacama will feature a visit to the El Tatio geyser field which is […]
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Atacama Desert – Chile’s Arid Wonderland
In my introductory post on the Adventures Abroad Chile trip, I emphasized what I called the big three – Torres del Paine, the Atacama Desert and Easter Island as being the quintessence of this amazing country. Well Torres del Paine certainly lived up to its star billing and in this and the next post we’ll […]