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Finally On The Road

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February 7th 2012
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive - (Robert Louis Stevenson) The real challenge of travel begins today because, after all, travel in French means adventure. We are hiring a car, heading south through the Middle Atlas Mountains and then onto the Sahara Desert. Right now The Sahara seems faraway and exotic. Firstly though, a greater challenge: the Moroccan Post. We walk in t ... read more

Africa » Morocco » Fès-Boulemane » Fes

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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