Blogs from El Jadida, Doukkala-Abda, Morocco, Africa

Geo: 33.2559, -8.50783Bonjour à tous,Aujourd'hui on a commencer lentement et on finalement décider d'aller a El Jadida avec Ginette. On a pris un taxi pour la gare mais on a resté coincé dans un embouteillage. On a finalement courru au tramway pour manquer le train de 10 minutes. On a attendu 2 heures pour le prochain train! C'était juste parfait pour un petit café.Nous avons quand même décidé d'aller a El Jadida. Nous avons fait 1.30 de train pour voir une ville presque en ruine. Mais il y avait quand même le vieux cartier portuguais et la citerne. C'était O.K. mais ca ne valait pas tout ce trajet. Mais Ginette est très contente car pour elle s'étais la troisième fois et elle est revenue acheté une magnifique robe cindybad. C'est comme une grosse n... read more

El-Jadida nad Oceanem Atlantyckim-zalozone przez Portugalczykow na początku XVI wieku. Gdy sultan Muhammad III. zajal miasto, portugalczykow przesiedlono do Brazylii. Obecnie jest to miejscowość wypoczynkowa szczegolnie dla marokanczykow. Pozostałosci portugalskiego miasta wpisano w 2004 roku na liste swiatowego dziedzictwa UNESCO. ... read more

After a few days of "taking care of business" in Casablanca, we were looking forward to heading south along what we anticipated would be the really scenic portion of Morocco's Atlantic coastline. The only big cities we expected to encounter along the way were Safi and Agadir, although we weren't sure just how far we would go past Agadir; the desert outposts along the coast seemed to diminish in appeal the farther south we looked on the map. Our first day's ride out of Casablanca to Azemmour started out less than auspiciously: besides getting a late start, we got thoroughly lost, since it wasn't as easy as we thought to "just take the coast road south" out of a vast sprawling city of 3 million people. While we somewhat enjoyed cruising through Casablanca's very affluent southern ... read more

The best possible escape from hot sandstorms of the Marrakech region is the breezy Atlantic coast. I got to spend the two weeks with fourteen other PCVs and four JICAs (Japanese International Co-operation Agency) in a camp close to downtown El Jedida, and only a five minute walk from the beach. There are lots of camps sponsored by the Moroccan Ministry of Youth and Sports, but four are billed as English speaking camps, of which this camp was Session 3. English Language camps are partly staffed by PCVs from the Youth Development sector; there are also professional Moroccan staff and some Moroccan volunteers who work with us. A typical day breaks down like this: breakfast at 8:00. National anthem and announcements at 8:45. English class 9:00 to 10:40. Beach from 11:00 to 12:30. Lunch at 1:00 ... read more