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Tangier Medina

A typical house in Tangier's Old City
In the Land of the Ewoks

May 7th 2007
Casa-Tangier-ChefchaouenTom Griffith I have heard Tangier described as many things - the 'Armpit of Morocco', 'Africa's Tijuana', 'a complete dump', 'a hole', and, perhaps more tactfully, 'where East meets West'. I had spoken to people who had been here, and was told crazy trales of people being stabbed, of marauding packs of ... read more
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Moroccan Flag In 788, about a century after the Arab conquest of North Africa, successive Moorish dynasties began to rule in Morocco. In the 16th century, the Sa'adi monarchy, particularly under Ahmad AL-MANSUR (1578-1603), repelled foreign invaders and inaugurate... ... read more
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Travel happens when I can fit it in, nowadays, but it will always be my favourite hobby. Here's my list of the best bits so far, in thirteen years of hopping around the world: Asia Angkor Wat (Cambodia) Taj Mahal and Varanasi (India) Annapurna Range and Kathmandu (Nepal) Bagan (Burma) Koh Phiphi (Thailand) Great Wall, Terracotta Warriors and the Forbidden City (China) Peshawar and the Chitral-Gilgit road (Pakistan) Istanbul and Butterfly Valley (Turkey) Luang Prabang (Laos) Americas Teotihuacan and Mexico City (Mexico) Lake Atitlan and Tikal (Guatem... full info
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