The Berber house is most often built of earth and is square in shape, or fortified, like a kasbah. In some Berber towns, such as Azrou or Ifrane, there are “European” houses.
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Unless you have really specific treatments, there’s no need to splash out on medicines and parapharmaceuticals before coming to Morocco. You can find a lot of things easily on the spot.
Tazzarine is a small town on the edge of the Drâa valley, unloved by guidebooks…
View of a small rose garden in Boutaghar: the roses surround the wheat plants
Contents: an improved logo, a blog for the Oasis, a new hotel: Les Roches in the Todra gorges, M’Hamid of the Gazelles, Berber weddings, the Old Morocco site, and last but not least, a big thank you.
Moroccan food is varied and excellent, and simple rules of hygiene will help you avoid touristas and other problems.
Visiting Morocco during Ramadan: advantages and disadvantages. Your stay will be different, but just as enjoyable as the rest of the year.
The “tamarisk root” you see in the desert is not a tamarisk root, but a parasitic plant of the tamarisk root, the cistanche, which is very pretty with its yellow flowers.
The Issawiyya, a large Muslim brotherhood, has a strong presence on the web, “tradition and modernity”.
Information for the 2009 Rose Moussem: in this blog post The date of the is…
In Morocco, Amazigh culture is alive and well, and not confined to museums. Practised on a daily basis, it is being modernised both technically and in its expressions, which improves its potential for survival.
In Agouim, on the road between Marrakesh and Ouarzazate, a women’s cooperative produces top-quality Berber rugs and Fez stitch embroidery, which you can discover here before buying them locally on your next trip to Morocco.
Three languages are officially spoken in Morocco: Arabic, French and Berber. There is also Darija. A few words to get you started…
Corruption in Morocco, an endemic evil to fight. And a practice to be avoided, when one does not know how.
Solution to our game about Arabic words translated into English. Sometimes they even come from further afield, from China, with the caravans, the silk route and the spice route.
We are all Arabic speakers, without knowing it. There are many Arabic words that have found their way into the English language, some of them surprising. Can you recognise them all?
