2023 New Year’s holidays we visited Morocco. We flew 5 hours from Amsterdam to Marrakech. We travelled by bus during 20 days together with a group leaded by a Moroccan guide, Abdul, that spoke fluent Dutch. After years of backpacking and low-budget travelling, it was a change. A nice change, by the way. We just sat in the bus, fastened our seatbelts and visited Roman ruins at “Volubilis”, monuments attached to the past and the culture of Andalucía: “الأَنْدَلُس” Al-Andalus (when Spain was part of different Muslim States from the 8th to the 13th centuries), the old Medinas (cities) of Fez, Meknes, Marrakech & Essouira, the Atlas Mountains and Ouarzazare, the ancient city where caravans stopped before entering the Sahara Dessert during 51 days on their way to the legendary Timbuktu. The flavours, colours and the
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