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Morocco - Casablanca, Rabat and Tangiers

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March 7th 2011
DAY 6 4th March 2011 Our pick up was 09.00am for the fairly long drive on the motorway to Casablanca and to our hotel in Rabat (Hotel Helnan Chellah) We left the mountains behind quite quickly and the landscape became very dry and sparse with a few settlements and villages. This soon changed to a much greener landscape with fields of orange and yellow flowers and as the land here is rich in phos ... read more

Africa » Morocco » Rabat-Salé-Zemmour-Zaer » Rabat

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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