Author: Ali Karim

By Ali Karim

Essaouira. Morocco

This post is part of a series called Morocco May 2017 After the busy-ness of Marrakech, we said our goodbye’s to Oussama and the staff at Riad Argan, retrieved our car from the parking lot outside the Marrakech Medina, and started driving to Essaouira, on the Atlantic coast of Morocco. We passed through several towns…

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By Ali Karim

Marrakech, Morocco

This post is part of a series called Morocco May 2017 The name Marrakech originates from the Amazigh (Berber) words amur (n) kush, which means “Land of God.” It is the third largest city in Morocco, after Casablanca and Fez, and lies near the foothills of the snow-capped Atlas Mountains, that we had just driven through,…

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