If you’re looking for that special hotel in Morocco, don’t miss out the Riad Dar Rita in Ouarzazate. This brand new Ouarzazate hotel gathers a small collection of unique decoration, great hotel service and only 7 rooms available for total privacy. Prices are cheap for this type of riad hotel in Morocco, you pay 35 euros per person including a magnificent diner and tasty / rich breakfast. A single room costs 50 euros. All rooms are totally equipped with private bathroom and air conditioner.

Riad Dar Rita – Riad Hotel Ouarzazate

• Address: Rue de la Mosquée 39, Tassoumate Ouarzazate, Morocco
• Phone: +212.654.164.726
• Email: darritamaroc@gmail.com
• Web: Hotel Ouarzazate | www.darrita.com

Riads in Marrakech are renovated houses now working as guest houses or Moroccan bed & breakfast style of accommodation. Some riads are affordable, some are cheap and many are expensive. So basically you have all kinds of riads depending of what you want to pay.

Last time I was in Marrakech i stayed here at Riad Jona approximately 2 weeks, and i could take the best out of Marrakech and work as the riad has free wireless Internet all around the house.

Riad Jona, Riad Marrakech Morocco

In Derb Jdid in the Riad Zitoun Jdid district, you have a great place to stay called Riad Jona. Riad Jona is one of Marrakech best choices for accommodation as you have great quality at a not so expensive price. Rooms start at 90 Euros per couple, breakfast included. You can profit from a magnificent decoration and a fabulous swimming pool in the terrace. Riad Jona is the best riad with swimming pool in Marrakech.

Visit Riad Jona’s website – click here: Riad Marrakech | www.riad-to-marrakech.com

Riad Jona, Riad Marrakech Morocco

Riad Jona, Riad Marrakech Morocco

Riad Jona, Riad Marrakech Morocco

Mr. Lahcen welcomes travelers to stay with him and his family, also he provide guide services for mountain tours in camel or donkeys to the mountain, So if you’re into Mountain Trekking in Morocco, where you will walk for several days to explore the mountains of southern Saghro the Dades Valley and along the lines of Draa Valley this is a perfect choice.

Nkob is a Berber village 130km south of Ouarzazate, on the National Road 108 that goes from Ouarzazate to Tazzarine, Alnif and Rissani – last town before the dunes of Erg Chebbi and Merzouga in the Sahara desert.

PRICE of Home Stay in Morocco: Costs 30 Euros per night half board, dinner and breakfast, but it might get a couple in the room as there is a double bed costs 25 Euros per person with dinner and breakfast. If we get 14 days to earn three free nights.

Home Stay Morocco

Website of Chezl’habitant: http://www.chezlhabitant.net/

I will point out a few companies that stand out for their effort to present excellent service, working ethics and reliable 4wd fleet. As I work in close contact with all of them, I can somehow have an idea about their tours, their behavior towards clients and working ethics.

Transport Tifinagh

This young yet promising agency opens its office in the southern city of Ouarzazate. What they offer different from others is the fact they apart from their 4×4, they also have minibuses and private cars available to make their tours. Their website is interesting in one fact that instead of having text description of the tours, they have an image description of all the places they travel to, so their website is indeed worth to visit as you can travel around Morocco through photography without getting out of your house.

To visit the website click here:

Tours in Marrakech | www.transport-tifinagh.com

Ligne d’Aventure

This well run father and son managed agency offer well selected tours around Morocco. Youssef will drive you around Moroccan’s hot spots with great energy and enthusiasm.

To visit the website click here:

Tours Ouarzazate | www.lignedaventure-maroc.com

In Morocco people drink a lot of tea. Really a lot. If you’re the kind of person not that keen about tea, well, I guess you’ll just have to get used to.

There are 3 main styles of tea in Morocco:

Green tea with mint leaves, mint tea, and green tea.

Tea only with mint leaves is usual in the northern part of Morocco. You can taste it in relaxing Chefchaouen ancient medina while reading a book. Green tea with mint s normal everywhere around and only green tea is more normal in deserted regions.

It seems that the green tea was introduce to Morocco back in 18th century while a British cargo ship coming from Asia left a huge load of tea in a Moroccan port. British people would never guess they were about to influence Moroccan culture than much.

Moroccan tea has tons of sugar, exaggerated quantities. If you don’t like it that sweet or if you can’t take that much sugar just say it before people actually serve you. Refusal can be tricky and not that well seen as you’ll pas a bit as a rude tourist that denied hospitality and one of their most important social ritual. So just inform in advance and you’ll be served sugar free. People are used to have a couple of folks in the family with diabetes so they are used to make 2 sets of tea.

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Existem ainda outras variedades de chás e ervas que pode comprar nos mercados e souks pelas cidades. Existem pelos mercados “ervanárias naturais” com uma séria de produtos desconhecidos e alguns até arrepiantes como lagartos embalsamados e gafanhotos secos para curar gripes e coisas do genero.

Moroccan green tea recipe

Vou agora dar uma receita segredo para fazer o bom chá marroquino. Pois, toda a gente já sabe que é só juntar chá verde com água a ferver, açucar e menta fresca… pois é… hehe, daí o segredo vir agora. aliás, 2 segredos.

Como vê a prepararem o chá quando foi a Marrocos, naquele hotel maravilhoso, bem, não é assim que eles, os marroquinos o preparam para eles. Falta uma coisa muito importante, que, normalmente lhes escapa pois há a pressa de o servir rápido.

Cleaning the leaves

Yes. Está a achar estranho não é. E se por acaso você que está a ler isto por acaso já foi a Marrocos e se calhar por algumas vezes deverá estar a dizer: ” Bem este gajo está a inventar coisas, pois já fui a Marrocos muitas vezes e não sabia…”. Já me disseram isto depois de sugerir esta passo importante. Disseram que isso não existia pois conheciam bem o país. Não é ofensa sugerir coisas que não se sabe. Parece que as pessoas quando já conhecem uma coisa ficam meio ao ataque quando alguém que sabe uma cena nova chega. Lembremo-nos que a vida é para aprendermos todos uns com os outros. Por iss, se essa mesma pessoa alguma vez ler isto: Vê e aprende! hehe

O chá verde está sujo. E essa mesma sujidade quando vai a ferver deixa um sabor diferente se essas mesmas folhas estiverem minimamente limpas. O processo aqui é despejar àgua quente na quantidade de chá que queremos fazer ( quando este seco e acabado de sair do pacote ). Mexe-se durante 5 segundos e deita-se a água fora. Repare lá de que cor a água está?! cinzenta não é… pois pense como realmente isso iria alterar o sabor. Repita este passo mais uma vez. Não abuse do tempo que a água fica em contacto com o chá para não começar a cozer a planta.

E pronto está preparado para continuar com o seu cházinho.

So we have:

1-boil the water;

2-clean the tea leaves;

3-pour the water into the tea pot;

4-break the fresh mint and insert them into the tea pot;

5-sugar as you like. Mix the sugar and the tea properly, the more you blend them the better the flavour.

Why do Moroccans dip tea from so high?

To mix together tons of sugar they actually use while preparing the tea…

Why 3 glasses for only 2 people? Why always a spare glass?

Será por estarem sempre à espera de um convidado inesperado? Não. É simplesmente para ser o copo que se utiliza para misturar o açucar. Como o chá está muito quente, esse mesmo copo vai ficar a escaldar… ou seja, quem vai ficar com os dedos e os lábios queimados? Ninguém! Esse copo fica de fora.

Is there any other way to make the tea even more delicious?

Sim há. Se for feito em lenha e não com lume a gás. Se a menta for mesmo acabada de apanhar. Uma boa música e uma boa companhia.

List of Berber vocabulary from the southeast region of Tafilalet, including Merzouga village, Rissani and Erfoud. Most of the words here are Tachelhit Berber languages, but some are also a mix of Moroccan derija dialect and French.

How are you?

meitanite?

Everything alright?

Te-he-ná rur-che?

How is you family? ( how is your house? )

Lá básse aite tadarte?

Bread

Arrerume

I eat with spoon

Dâte-setárre, tse-tarren-jaute

Water

Aman

Me

Qui-in

You

Chi-in

Key

Tassarute

Is everything ok?

Kul-chi meziane?

Numbers

1-Ian

2-Sin

3-Krade

4-Cheráde

Come here

Adúde

Go away, move!

Sir lehe

Get out of my way

Balik a’brid

Lets go?

Andú?

Orange

Limone

Where are you?

Fin’rák?

What do you want? What’s going on?!

Chenú berríte?

Onion

Besse-lá

Salt

Tissinte

Tomato

Máticha

Carrot

Risou

Vegetables

Roudár

Tea

atei

Fly / flies

Izi / izan

Cat

lemouche

Olive Oil

Zid-le-húde ( make strenght with the throat in the “hú” and make a long sound on the “+u” )

Mix of Berber and Moroccan dialect:

It’s impossible to sleep with this high temperature

Má-em mkine-che násse mezine fi serruniá

At the moment I don’t want,please my friend go away

Má-berrite-che hada daba ya sahebi, iá-lá sir lehê!

I don’t want,give me the money!

Má-berrite-che, á-teí-ni l’flusse!