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Essaouira for the day: Saturday October 13, 2018, Day 8

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October 19th 2018
Our taxi driver Mohammad drove us to Essaouira From Marrakech. No English no Spanish no French, he only spoke Berber and Moroccan Arabic, it was difficult to communicate with him. Sign language along with my limited Arabic vocabulary was a little helpful. But he drove us safe to and from Essaouira. He took a couple of smoke breaks at some tea house along the way. The highway between ... read more

Africa » Morocco » Marrakech-Tensift-El Haouz

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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