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happy trails to you!
Hi,
here is my advice, as an American woman, who has taken many wonderful trips to Morocco.
Skip the tour guides! You will pay way too much of your money (which gives you more money to spend on the people in Morocco who really need and deserve it - as CoolP pointed out). You will also get dragged to a bunch of touristy belly-dancing restaurants and souvenir sellers who are hooked up with the tour guides will rob you blind.
Here is the best way to enjoy Morocco:
1. Buy a Lonely Planet Guide to Morocco (they have a Darrija phrasebook too) or a RoughGuide and read in advance about where you want to visit.
2. Take the train (my favorite) or bus when you go from city to city - or from the airport into Casablanca - talk to the Moroccans around you. I guarantee that you will make friends and they will tell you the best places to go, know the nicest traditional Moroccan hotels to stay in AND you will probably get invited to their house for a real Moroccan meal.
Morocco is a wonderful place to visit. But there is a "tourist Morocco" and a real Morocco. The real Morocco is much better!!!!!
nygirl
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