A trip to Morocco looks like a trip to the magic Arab fairy tale, where there are waterfalls, eternal snow on the tops of the mountains and tangerine trees. The famous, beaches, the noisy markets Marrakesh, the majestic Rabat Mosques, the endless expanses of the Sahara desert - all this is Morocco.

Visa

The Kingdom of Morocco is located in North Africa, borders with Algeria from the East. The northern coast of the country is washes Mediterranean Sea, Western Atlantic Ocean. From Europe, Morocco is separated by the Gibraltar Strait.

For the entry into Morocco for up to 90 days, you do not need a visa in advance. Requirements for passport are also incredible: it must be valid at the time of departure. On the border in the passport is affixed by the entrance print. You still need to fill the migration card, so do not forget to capture the handle with you.

Tours in Morocco

The prices of tours of 2 people for 7 nights with departure from Moscow

Weather

In Morocco, you can ride all year round - the beach season lasts without a break. On the Mediterranean coast, water is warmer, but there are no large resorts there. Ocean water, washing the shore and, in summer he warms up to + 21 ° C.

The best time to travel to Morocco - Spring and Early Autumn. On Morocco beaches, for example, in, you can relax and in the summer - the ocean breeze helps to easily endure hot weather.

Currency

As with many Arab countries, Morocco - Dirham currency (MAD in international classification). In one Moroccan dirham 100 centimes. For 5 Russian rubles give 1 dirham. It is most convenient to take with you dollars or euros. The course in the country's exchangers everywhere is approximately the same.

Flights to Morocco Round and back

Transportes for 1 person with departure from Berlin

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Hotels can accommodate both students and couples. There are even special "youthful" hotels in Morocco, where the youth is going exclusively. Almost all of them are equipped with pools and offer guests to use the services of masters from local massage salons and beauty studios.

Resorts

Lovers of relax in the sand best go to the resort with extended beaches, beautiful weather and a complete set of marine entertainment.

And for those who like to spend time, inspecting local attractions, offer interesting excursion programs in the ancient Arab cities. From Agadir or Casablanca, you can go to the discount with a huge number of antiquities museums, beautiful Marrakesh or Fez with colorful oriental bazaars. For even greater exotic, it is possible to get acquainted with the culture of Berber tribes. Most those who love walks along the embankment, as well as the authenticity of the eastern cities at the same time as the comfort of modern hotels. Fans of sports can be recommended by windy shores of Es-Savira.

sights

The two most visited objects in Casablanca - Mahakma do Pasha and the Khasan II mosque. Mahakma do Pasha is a huge snow-white building, in which there used to be the residence of the ruler of Casablanca. A lot of luxurious halls, courtyards and galleries are decorated with skilled carvings and mosaic. Hasan II Mosque is a grand construction that is inferior to the beauty and majesty of the size of only a mosque in Mecca.

Marrakesh is going to get to the Jemaa Al-Fna Square with many fockers and snake spellcasters, fortune-law and merchants of all stripes. After shopping, you can go to the Menara garden at the foot of the Atlas Mountains.

Kitchen

Morocco is very respecting the dishes from the pussy and lamb. There are many vegetables and spices in the menu that give dishes unique taste and aroma. The cake with pigeons and almond meat cake is served on big holidays. Tea party in Morocco is a real ritual. It is brewed with a crumpled special way, poured into a glass from the kettle from the height to achieve foam. To tea, it is customary to serve cedar nuts and dates.

Transport

In resort cities, it is convenient to move or walk, or by taxi. Be prepared for the fact that other passengers can be put down in a taxi on the road. The average price of a trip to Taxi to Morocco is from 10 to 50 Dirham (usually no more than 10 dirham per kilometer). There are high-speed trains between cities. Before in sitting, the pasture can be reached from the capital, Fez, Marrakesh. Long-distance buses go more often and cost cheaper, but because of their popularity, tickets for them to buy more difficult.

What will bring

As souvenirs from Morocco bring embroidered leather shoes (grandmas, shoes without a back), painted clay dishes, kettles, lamps, bedspreads. Often buy as a gift sets of spices and tea.

Good to know

• Time in Morocco is two hours behind Moscow in the summer and for 3 hours - in winter. During Ramadan (floating date, in 2017 - May 26 - June 25) acts in winter.
• The plane flies from Moscow to Casablanca for about 6 hours.
• The sockets in Morocco do not differ from the Russian, the adapter is not needed.
• In many stores in resort cities, a big break is aroused from 13:00 to 17:00. They close after midnight.
• Morocco has a lot of pockets, watch your own things.
• To enter the water, it is worth capturing special shoes - the shore can meet sea hedgehogs.

Arriving in Morocco, you do not need to set the goal of a hike to the market for fruit - after all, during a walk through any city of this country, and in particular, on the medina, you will see a huge number of small fruit markets that sell fruit, vegetables, spices, and If some kind of fruit you need is not observed on the counter - just ask about him from the merchant, and he will immediately find him.

Morocco grows a huge variety of fig palm trees, almonds, walnuts and phenomena, however, they made a popular chicken for this country.

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In the south of the country, the dates are growing with whole clusters in palm groves, which are located between Gulmima and Zaggan, as well as throughout the drama valley. In Zagor, you can even visit the Ksara gardens, where about 25 different types of palm trees grow. In all the same Morocco, about 100 types of dates are growing, 45 of which grow in the south of the country.

The most popular varieties of dates in Morocco are Georgian dates, Algerian dates and Halavi's dates. Georgian dikes are distinguished by a soft and sweet pulp, and a pleasant smell, it is one of the most delicious in the world, and therefore earlier, in the Middle Ages, it was allowed to have only kings and sultans. And even now, not everyone can afford to be Majulian dates, after all, care requires incredible efforts for the whole year. Ratary dates are twice as much as ordinary dates.

In 1927, when Morocco suffered from epidemics, 11 Palms of the Georgian dike were sent to the United States of America in order to avoid extinct plants. As a result, the same dates are grown in America.

During the sacred month of Ramadan, the dates eat with the traditional pea soup Harira, in other months of the year they can also be seen as part of dishes with chicken or lamb.

In the city of Erfood, which is located in the south of Morocco, is growing about a million dative palm trees, therefore the famous festival of dates is held every year - every October Valley of Draa and the city and its surroundings fill the locals and tourists, in order to collect, eat and worship the harvest collected . The income from the export of dates is the main part of the budget of this small town, and the festival that takes place here in October is the most visited and large-scale in Morocco.

Lemons

Walking in the Morocco markets, you will certainly see on one of them a whole mountain of lemons, which smelling much stronger and sharper than usual, and very unusual. And here you will be waiting for surprise - lemons in Morocco are sissing the same as we have cucumbers, just not in barrels, but in large glass jugs, and the huge mountains of these delicious aromatic fruits you will see here everywhere, because the lemon zeper is along with Saffron, cumin And cinnamon is the main spice of Moroccan cuisine. Under the action of salt, lemon loses its acid and bitterness, but the taste and fragrance become more rich, and such unsweetened candies are obtained, which are pleasantly added to sweet and spicy dishes, which benefit from the sophistication of such an unusual snack.

Oranges

Moroccan oranges can be distinguished by orange pulp and thick skin, although they are clean enough. Their taste is more sour, but often the sweet juicy fruits often come across, the size of the fetus is medium, even closer to the small, the shape is slightly flattened, on the spot where the fruit was attached, you can see a characteristic dent. A kilogram of oranges can be bought in Morocco for 5 dirhams, which is approximately 18 rubles. What is interesting, the cost of them does not change for the whole year.

The African Morocco only separates a few kilometers from European Spain and still despite this contrast between the kitchens of countries located on two continents is quite large. Many influenced the kitchen of southern Mauri Europe (so in modern it is called Morocco residents), they added exotic fruits into dishes, diluting the kitchen with culinary techniques and architecture of the city. And in the kitchen, Morocco, in turn, had an impact of many cultures, including European, Arab and French.

Morocco's kitchen can be described as the balance of decades and simplicity, it all depends on the season. Popular beef, lamb, camel, and chicken. The main source of carbohydrates is the couscous, rice, legumes, bread, and here it is customary to consume a large number of root vegetables, seasonal fruits and greens.

The dishes are prepared here carefully and slowly, they are very often seasoned with spices, as well as fresh herbs. So as far as the country is full of contrasts, and its national cuisine, so salsenious and sweet and sweet are added to one meal, and even sharp. Meat dishes are often seasoned with fresh fruits and dried fruits, in popular national Moroccan dishes include Tajin with meat and quince, lamb with dried apricots, doves and prunes, and lamb with raisins and cedar nuts. Moreover, Tagin is both a saucepan and a method of cooking a dish.

A large abundance of dishes are served on the table, the custom requires the guests to emphasize the pleasure from eating. On the traditional dinner, cutlery does not serve, it is necessary for hand, with the help of a large, medium and index fingers of the right hand. At the beginning, lunch brings a cup with hot water with the addition of pink water, all this is for washing hands. Sometimes when a feast is served at first soup. Traditional Moroccan soups are very satisfying and thick. If you fall to the real feast, there will be an opportunity to join the national flavor, no - then you taste Harira soup in the restaurant - from lamb with beans and adding coriander, at the end of the Ramadan post it is served first. It is still interesting to Chorba - it's a slightly spicy chicken broth. Pastilla is a dish that is served on great holidays, for example, when meeting important guests or a wedding. This is a rather complicated dish, which includes meat of pigeons, eggs, which are boiled by screwing, almonds - are paved between the layers of the Moroccan test, which is very thin by tradition. From the top of the dish sprinkled with sugar powder or cinnamon - very plentiful. The higher the layers in the dish, the one is considered to be higher in the rank of the guest.

No less popular national dish - Taine, is a kind of meat or fish goulash with the addition of olives, as well as good couscous - wheat cereals with lamb and stewed vegetables. In the south of the country, it is not customary to add meat into Couscus, refuel it only raisins and onions. In Moroccan families, Kusks eat every Friday, the dish is considered family and festive. Friday for Muslims is considered a holy afternoon. Cooking dishes takes a few hours, it is necessary for hot. Since families in Morocco are large, the size of specially intended for cooking dishes is huge. The recipe is different not only by the location of the regions, but also in each family add their identities. Of course the most important is the Groat-Cous. It is boiled in a pair of steamer, stirring several times in the pelvis, then adding olive oil. When stirred Couscous, then this procedure resembles a beating of the pillow. As a result, the croup is obtained by air and crumbly. The second component of meat or chicken dishes, and the data is boiled in the ingredients in another saucepan. The chicken is preferable to homemade, in Morocco, it is not customary to eat ice cream chur-broilers. The store sells live chickens, they stand there in the header. The taste of such a chicken is certainly more rich. The third component are vegetables. Rope, carrots, cabbage, pumpkin, zucchini, nut and onions. They are added at the end, already in the finished almost chicken broth. The village add a variety of spices.

Another dish is the traditional meat of "Meshua" - a dish consisting of a lamb fried on an open fire or baked meat in clay shape.

From the desserts the most popular cakes, they are called gazelle horns. They pose small bagels with filling from almonds and honey. Mint tea is served to them here, for cooking uses meat of local origin and green leaves of Chinese tea. One of the main attributes when visiting Morocco is to participate in the main chapter ceremony. This ceremony has its own traditions: a guest is appointed, usually this is a man who will lead to the whole sacrament. It is necessary that he can sit on the floor, while his legs should be crossed, in front of him there is a small tray on it are jugs, cups for guests, mint, three boxes of tea and sugar. There should be silence in the room, the guest pour into the pitcher a pinch of tea and fills it with boiling water, the mint and sugar are added later. While tea insisters - everyone is silent, after a man floods a little bit of tea for himself and tastes his taste, then raises high pitcher and pours tea to all other guests.

For each tourist, in front of any country acutely gets up a very topical question "What will I be there? What can there be there? Where is it better to eat? How much is food? ..." In Morocco, the Atlantic Ocean has a wide range of seafood, especially in all coastal cities, and constitutes the main part of the diet of the local population. Let's see what the locals eat, and what prefers to eat tourists are preferred:

Let's start with national dishes. Tazhin is the most common and budget - the symbol of Moroccan cuisine. Tazin is called the very plate in which he is preparing, and what is inside the plate. Moroccan taiga is a gentle meat, fresh vegetables, juicy fruits, soaked with flavors and spicy herbs, which are still languishing on glowing coals in a dense oily sauce. A kind of culinary feat for every day. Special Avudine is a clay vessel of two parts. The lower part is a large clay pan without a handle with a very thick bottom and walls, and the upper is a high cone-shaped cover with a hole of several millimeters on the highest part through which steam comes out, without giving liquids to get out.
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The basis of the real Moroccan Tazhina any meat on the bone: chicken, pork, beef or lamb. Meat can be replaced by bird, fish or seafood. Mandatory ingredients are various vegetables, raisins, cinnamon, nuts and light honey, as well as spicy herbs and spices. The tagging recipes invented an incredible amount. In fact, it is "stewed everything you have" :) Economically and useful for health!

A fish

Only in Tazhin you will get tomorrow meat with vegetables in our own juice throughout the day. The secret is in an unusual shape of the lid, which provides constant circulation of moisture inside, steam from vegetables and meat rises up, then cools in the cool lid, condenses on its walls and flows back to vegetables. The result is a very gentle and juicy dish, soaked with aromas of each ingredient. The older "Plate", the more valuable, more valuable and more expensive in it in it.

Meat

Classic thazhin is lamb with dried fruits, chicken with salty lemons and green olives, duck with duties and honey, or fish with fresh tomatoes, lemon and cilaf. Stewed meat is fed in the sauce from the liquid in which it is agitated - this liquid can be water, broth and even wine. Quite unusual for our receptors, the combination of meat and fruit, including dried fruits. The inherent ingredient of many Tazhinov is salted lemons. But all this is very tasty! And of course, in addition to Tazhin, fresh crisp bread for sauce is always served. Useful and quite budgetary sodium! The cost of Tazhinov in the cafes and Morocco restaurants from 30 to 80 dirham.

Hen

Another super-mega-budget national dish is a lentil soup. There, too, anything can be accomplished, anything, but its main ingredient - lentils, thanks to which the soup is very thick, very satisfying and slightly cooled to taste. One plate with bread can be nemitting to the dump. Therefore, this is the most popular dish in workers. It costs only 10-30 dirham.

Restaurant-Cafes Herguita on the waterfront in Agadir, codenamed "AT-two!" It offers excellent budgetary comprehensive lunches for 45-60 dirham. In the left side No. 1 ("AT") make gorgeous freshly squeezed juices from any fruit for 10-20 dirham. I especially recommend trying a national colorful aphrodisiac - freshness of avocado juice with honey and almond. Avocado in Morocco black, very soft grade, it is incredibly tasty and oily. Also in Morocco, very tasty mango, sweet and juicy. I also highly recommend trying. Sugar syrup is added in juices, if you prefer natural, just ask to make sugar without sugar.

Part No. 2 offers budget and delicious dishes of local and European cuisine. From local cuisine - Tazhins of all kinds, fish, assorted seafood, fruit salads and local desserts. I recommend to try Casablanca beer - I personally liked the most of all others in Morocco. From European Pizza, Hamburgers, Potatoes Friend and other fast food.

My favorite dish is there - Assorted seafood: small shrimps, squid in the batter and two types of fried fish under them + juice from mango or watermelon + fruit salad. All this magnificence costs only 80 dirham.

Locals prefer to eat fish-type fish, it is very cheap and fried right on the streets or in ports. I personally did not like the smell, there was not. It is worth a penny - 10 dirham for several small pieces. But I eaten such a toget fish for the first time, she has several rows of acute teeth, it is served on a plate in a "safe" version. Two such pieces are always buried under shrimps in the most budget assortment :) It is delicious, by the way :)

(!) Do not get on the possible and attractive cheapness to eat in ports. With each port in different cities, there is something like street cavets from the alleged cheap prices, where all the locals are eating for 40 dirham. But this is the same smelly Salaka worth 40 dirham. First, girls without men in the ports are better not to enter at all. There, in the afternoon and especially in the evening, every drunk chaw, and there is no police, so no one will answer for you there. And there are nothing to do there too. I had two courageous and curious boxers for the company plus a local hotel friendly, and we still went to Marina Agadir to dine at your own risk. Cheat there without himself. Even when the local one is traded, and it is necessary to bargain before you make an order and the price seems to seem to be acceptable, then have in mind that in the final account it will grow three or four times. For eaten already salads, bread, another size of shrimp, enlarged portions, adding what you did not ask for service. At the same time, you are sitting on dirty shops, with a stickycloth instead of a tablecloth, and toilet paper instead of napkins, everything is completely doubtful, launched on a dirty tray. A bunch of some fried crap looks at all appetizing ... dinner with a bargain to cheering and almost Not a bark of a local friendship with staff, we cost us as a result of 1200-1300 (!) Dirham for 4-5 people. For example, in the most expensive restaurant, Agadir we dined with incredible chic and comfort in the same composition for the same money. But about this in the next post.

So, in the completion of the topic of budget meals, it will be a little more expensive than you will cost you a popular pizza - the filling of a variety of and many, the dough of medium fineness, well-roasted. Pizza for removal costs cheaper. The most delicious pizza was in the Les Saveurs Cafe with Tuna and Seafood. Price from 40 to 80 Dirham.

There are also an incredible amount of ice cream varieties, and the most unusual - blue smuffan ice cream, cola, chewing, and a bunch of different traditional tastes ... I recommend mango, melon, bitter chocolate and some multicolored mixture with caramels))) Price for 3 Balls - 20 dirham.

Nearby is the pizzeria Rugantino, the Italian restaurant serving a decent paste and risotto with different fillings and the most delicious seafood soup. Prices are already restaurant. Lunch / dinner at least 200-300 dirham per person + free Wi-Fi.

An incredibly tasty ice cream was discovered in Morocco - double dark chocolate, OOOOOO is a real ecstasy for dark chocolate lovers! It costs 20 dirham, it was found and Slopano almost in all cities. Very, very tasty. It is a pity that we don't have it ((

And now we turn to the best restaurants and the most delicious gastronomic part - to seafood. Looking ahead, about the first pictures: Yes, on the first lobster alive. Yes, on the second it is he, but already grilled. And yes, I blurred it!)))

Moroccan hotels offer their tourists different power systems: BB, HB or All (all inclusive). I will not say that the hotels are bad, but even in the top five somehow ... too usually. Therefore, it was decided to eat in the cafes and restaurants, in order to be saturated with a local flavor. I will say right away that I have never been frowning in life with delicious and freshest seafood, like in Morocco ...

Our journey in Morocco turned out to be very random ... Of course, I always wanted to visit this country, but we didn't plan to be in it so fast)) Nevertheless, I am very glad and happy that I spent these beautiful days in wonderful sunny and Brighter!

I will start with the fact that it was a surprise for me that the flight is 6 hours. But it is not so long as it turned out)

We flew to the city of Agadir, where they should have stayed at the hotel.

Coming out of the plane, we met the hot air of Africa and the bright sun.

Once at the hotel, we have long solved all kinds of questions with the number, and could only be closer to the ocean in the evening .. and of course it produces a stunning impression .. The greatness of the Atlantic Ocean !!

Such long waves, wide coast and endless space of the horizon ..

I was already happy at that moment that I got it into this country.

The time difference with Russia is 4 hours, so of course we immediately went to bed and did not regret, because the next day, we understood that it was easily moved into the regime we need.

In the morning of the next day, we changed the number to the one that quieter and higher and went on a journey through the city of Agadir.

Agadir, this is a resort town, where a lot of French and the Frontiers themselves come. (Almost like me Sochi) it is not big, and mainly consists of hotels and simple buildings, but here you can catch a local flavor and atmosphere.

Noted that Morocco women are mostly traditional. They wear their national clothes, handkerchiefs covering their heads, hands and legs are also closed and famous grandmas baboons.

And so go girls and young women. In general, Morocco is allowed to have officially 4 wives, the main thing is that a man could contain them.

On this day, we were taken to a cooperative for the production of argan oil. Argan trees are growing only in Morocco and are protected by UNESCO. And you can't cut down and do something with them. The fruits of these trees are processed into the oil. And it is considered liquid gold. Only women work on oil production and produce it manually, only such a product is very valuable and expensive. Of course we purchased this gold and we carry it with you))

Two days were cool and rained, so we just devoted these days for sightseeing.

The next day was very rich, we went to Marrakesh.

I dreamed there to visit. Marrakesh is a red city, there are all buildings, houses and buildings of this color.

There really is the entire atmosphere of Morocco.

We went to the Garden of Majorl. Refunted place where Yves Saint Laurent was buried. Where are the stunning variety of plants. I just wanted to be there, breathe and just contemplate, the beauty that the artist Majorl created.

The eastern bazaar is in Medina, the Old Town. There are an area where you can experience all the beauty of the city. Aromatic oranges in the middle of the mint taste of the marocan tea and the mad movement of horses, cars, people, bicycles, carts, acrobats, snakes and tourists from different countries !!! Yes, it is this area that begins the eastern streets of the bazaar begins. I remembered Marrakech as a motley, a bright city with a crazy movement.

On the Eastern Bazaar there is anything, a lot of leather products, as well as all sorts of ribbons and clothes, dishes, daggers, silver, carpets and a lot of things .. I think it should enjoy this city, you need to stay in it for several days and each Once it will be different.

About Marrakesh, I am happy that I visited here and I hope to come back.

In the morning at 7.30, we woke up, have breakfast (they have very tasty baking) and went to the ocean.

I still do not understand Russian tourists who all the time spent around the pool. As you can be there, if there is an ocean, this salty smell is velvet sand and of course the open sky and the sounds of the waves ..

Now separate about food. We realized that in this country you should not take dinner at the hotel, because the stunning kitchen is not compared with any buffet.

The famous dish that we ate every day in local restaurants, this is a tajan (this is beef, lamb, fish or chicken Kotor stew with vegetables on fire in the clay pot) is not the taste-described, just tatt in the mouth .. still delicious marrocal soup Bobov, Kus Kous, and of course tea. It is preparing from a large amount of mint, sugar and tea ..

We enjoyed food, just oddly enough everywhere there were delicious coffee and sweets, baking and pastries.

Well, and more fruits. We got to the local market, it is called bitches, and the number of fruits and vegetables certainly impressed)) I overtaken orange melons, strawberries, raspberries, peaches, Musmule. It was very tasty.

In Agadir, it's very well to walk along the embankment, especially when the sun comes. Entering views of the ocean. For some reason, the guides are intimidated by the guides that the wild people are very dangerous to go for a walk. I will immediately say this is a complete nonsense, never even the look of the bad thing we did not notice themselves. So close to our hotel, there is a parking area, expensive luxury apartments. And there, of course, there is a two standard of living, very pleasant homes, carurated digested courtyards and streets and a very carial cafe overlooking the port, where very tasty coffee and sweets. We spent our evenings and of course after such walks did not want to go to Dinner at the hotel.))

In general, the marroco country is very different and we saw it probably not from all, but from several sides for sure. And that is what is interesting. And what I really liked this climate hot sun, but the cool ocean and so always. And a variety of impressions. I'm not tired at all and I would like to watch everything new and new in this country.

I hope we will come back.