#chefchauoen

[humanflower]

Gabe Scalise

[eliseluskin]

Friday, April 19, 2019

Evan and I had booked an over night trip to Chefchauoen and Mekenes. We had a personal tour, which was a nice change of pace from our last tour, which was crazy big... I’m going to let the photos speak for themselves for this post.

We started our trip our drive at 8:45am. Our first stop for photos on the journey to Chefchauoen, was Barrage Sidi Chahed, a beautiful lake. On the drive, Evan got an email from the riad that we booked the night before saying that they were sorry, but they couldn’t fulfill our room request because they were fully booked. Great. Cool. Love it. So we found another riad on Expedia, and booked that immediately.

We stopped for coffee after 2 hours in the car, which was much needed. But then got back on the road. We arrived at 12:30p, our driver walked us to our riad, Dar Hannan. We dropped off our bags and then went out to explore, we got lunch and then walked up to the Spanish Mosque to get the view of the city. It was breath taking, the whole town is blue and white. 

While we were at the look out, Evan got a call from the riad that told us this morning that they couldn’t keep our booking and said they’d worked something out and they could put us in a different riad tomorrow night, and then we could stay with them the second night. He said thank you, but we had already booked another place.

We walked back down from the mosque, and continued to explore. We found a small square and sat down to relax and get some mint tea. 

We met our driver and he walked us to Riad Dar Meziana for dinner. After dinner we walked around the city at night. It was so peaceful, not having the streets congested with hoards of people.

We went back to our riad and hit the hay... we planned to getup early and take photos in the morning without a bunch of people in them. 

[etymopedia]

‏‎#قصة_مدينة : #المدينة_الزرقاء #شفشاون #Chefchauoen في #المغرب #Morocco🇲🇦 اصلها #امازيغي من #اشاون بمعنى #القرون. #ويكيبيديا #اتموبيديا #etymology ‎‏ (في ‏‎شفشاون Chefchaouen‎‏)

[goseespain2017]

I am absolutely in awe of Chefchaouen! I’ve never seen so much blue in my life! Although the floors were steep on this town on the mountain side, our cute, old, and cane-in-hand tour guide was conquering the road and was even far ahead of us. The labyrinth that is chefchaouen, aka the blue pearl, was difficult to navigate, but as a team we were able to successfully make it out and were able to catch some gorgeous views from the mountain side along the way. -Marissa Garcia

[lady-ganja]

Chefchauoen is my favorite place in the world. I want to go back :(

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[leahinmaroc]

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