| Page Views: 882 Last Visit to Rabat: November, 2005 | Rabat by uglyscot - last update: Jun 3, 2009 |
Rabat is a busy town, but what strikes you is how well arboured it is. All main streets have an avenue of trees whether palms or ficus. There are parks too.
T he architecture is a blend of Arab, French and modern and somehow it works.
Rabat began as a Phoenician fishing village about 800BC on the banks of the Bou regreg Estuary.
It has a different atmosphere to Casablanca. People are less interested in foreigners and keep themselves more to themselves.
Like Casablanca , it also lies on the Atlantic coast. |
|  | In Morocco it seems most of the minarets are square in shape compared to the circular ones in Cairo and elsewhere. |
| | Across the estuary from Rabat is its twin town of Sale which is more traditional and conservative than Rabat. Go there to the Artisan village - ilamar, and pick up some pottery as souvenirs. |
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lynnehamman Thu Jun 4, 2009 01:12 UTC
Interesting page & photographs- I must confess I would have been very rattled by that interrogation too-sad that the world has become so paranoid. Lovely pottery. | sachara Sat Apr 4, 2009 21:31 UTC
Shane, I enjoyed to read your Rabat tips. I realise I never came back to Rabat after my first visit in 1975. | meroutre Tue Mar 6, 2007 12:05 UTC
you would not be able to get to the white house without going trough security .same in morocco ,it is just standard procedures.nothing personnal. | gilabrand Tue Nov 14, 2006 06:42 UTC
What? All this time living in bargaining land and you don't know how to bargain? LOL |
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