Morocco 2017 – Berber Girl in the High Atlas –

Where Berber Girl finds a suitable summer home in the High Atlas, and suffers a shopping fail in Marrakech...

Morocco 2017 – Postcards from Marrakech –

Where we visit YSL's memorial, the Musee Berbere and Majorelle Gardens before spending an evening in the Jemaa el Fna.

Morocco 2017 – A GPS Fail –

We drive down a street so narrower that we wonder how much paint we're going to lose. Doug's GPS isn't matching the streets. We call the hotel again, who offers to send a guide...

Morocco 2017 – Kasbah Taourirt and Ksar Ait Ben Haddou –

We'll log 200 miles today, leaving Skoura for another kasbah, a castle, and a film studio...

Morocco 2017 – Atlas Film Studio –

The Atlas Film Studio is the second largest in the world, and the site of some of my favorite movies including Kingdom of Heaven. What a treat it was to tour ...

Morocco 2017 – Skoura and Kasbah Amridil –

We head to Skoura, where we would visit a 17th century citadel, and I would fall in love ... with a loom!

Morocco 2017: Into the Red Dunes – The Director’s Cut

Today's the day! My camel trek into the Red Dunes ofErg Chebbi - part of the Western Sahara and the tallest sand dunes in Morocco.

Morocco 2017: Monkeys, a White Horse and a Kasbah – The Director’s Cut

Today we will climb into the Middle Atlas Mountains to see wild monkeys, and to a kasbah in Merzouga, at the edge of the Western Sahara.

Morocco 2017: A Tile Factory, a Library and a Souk in Fez – The Director’s Cut

Fez is the second oldest city in the world after Jerusalem. It lays claim to the first psychiatric and surgical hospitals, the oldest university and library (coincidentally, founded by a woman) and the world's 3rd largest mosque.

Morocco 2017: Volubilis – The Director’s Cut

Volubilis was a caravansary for the Berbers and the capital of Mauritania, before becoming an important Roman outpost in the 2nd century BCE. It marked the furthest reach of the Roman Empire into Africa.