Maroka

Eyewitness Travel Guides

by Richard Williams, Viktorija Glušina-Butlere (Translator), Ruta Svaža (Translator)

„Maroka ir kā koks, kura saknes aug Āfrikā, bet lapas elpo Eiropas gaisu”. Šo metaforu Marokas karalis Hasans II (1929-1999) lietojis, raksturojot savu zemi, kas lepojas gan ar senām tradīcijām, gan ar nemainīgu virzību uz moderno pasauli.
Maroka ar daudzveidīgajiem dabas apstākļiem, multikulturālo vidi un bagāto vēsturi ir tūristiem ļoti interesanta valsts. Šis ceļvedis iepazīstina ar sešām nozīmīgākajām Marokas pilsētām – Rabātu, Kasablanku, Tanžeru, Marrākešu, Miknēsu un Fēsu – un kolorītajiem valsts reģioniem – Atlasa kalnu apgabaliem, Atlantijas okeāna un Vidusjūras piekrasti, Rīfa kalnu un tuksnešainajiem apvidiem.
Marokas pilsētās varēsiet vērot spilgtu kontrastu starp senajiem cietokšņiem, mošejām, tirgiem un moderno arhitektūru. Valsts galvaspilsētā Rabātā valda kosmopolītiska gaisotne, lielākā Marokas pilsēta Kasablanka lepojas ar interesantu Art Deco stila arhitektūru, Tanžera apbur ar savu kultūrvēsturiskā mantojuma šarmu, savukārt Marrākeša devusi Marokai tās nosaukumu. Dabas mīļotājus un aktīvās atpūtas cienītājus valdzinās gan Atlantijas okeāna piekraste ar skaistām un mežonīgām pludmalēm, gan Atlasa kalnu apgabali ar plašiem ciedru mežiem, dziļām ielejām un ainaviskiem ūdenskritumiem, gan tuksnešainie apvidi valsts dienvidos.
Ceļvedī uzzināsiet arī daudz interesantu faktu par Marokas iedzīvotājiem, vēsturi, kultūru, saimniecību un tradīcijām. Lai kurp jūs dotos, nobaudiet kādu no marokāņu tradicionālajiem ēdieniem un apmeklējiet Marokas tirgu jeb sūku!
Ceļvedī sniegti arī praktiski padomi dažādām ikdienas situācijām, ieteikumi apmešanās vietas un restorānu izvēlei. Tekstu papildina krāšņi fotoattēli, ilustrācijas un kartes.

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction, Reference, Morocco, Geography, Africa

408 pages, Paperback

First published November 7, 2002

About the author

Librarian note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. This is Richard^Williams, a catch-all for authors who can't be matched to one of the other specific ones.

Reviews

[Elease · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great resource before our 10-day trip to Morocco, although I wish I could have requested certain cities/regions be left out since we don't have time to see them all. They're all so enticing!! Sigh. I finally stopped letting myself read about the cities we couldn't fit in.

This is the second DK Eyewitness Travel Guide I've used. These guides do a nice job giving the foreign place a context in history and culture (and modernity, as the pragmatic information at the end is also useful). The write-ups about attractions are informative without giving away everything--almost like a movie preview. This book is not necessarily the only guide I would rely on if I were going to spend months in Morocco, but it serves the purpose of our short trip very well.

[Shavon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great history lesson. I was able to decide how best to use the limited time I have for the Moroccan leg of my vacation to compare Muslim history and culture in Morocco to that of the Andalusian region of Spain.

[Sophie Crane · Rating 5 out of 5]

Having always wished to visit Morocco, this guide gives a tantalising glimpse of the joys in store. In one way this makes the job more difficult as there are so many places of cultural interest to visit it would be advisable to visit at least 2 places on any one trip. I was drawn to Fez and Tetouan as first choices, but there are a host of other possibilities. The guide gives excellent advice on what to see and do and forms an ideal first step if you wish to visit this extraordinary country. Highly recommended.

[Tanya · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hmmm, I wasn't overly impressed with this travel guide. It gave no information whatsoever on pricing, and wasn't that helpful with the logistics of visiting sites overall. The pictures are beautiful, but when I'm on the ground seeing the real thing that's not what I need. I'll use this guide as a memory-jog when I'm putting together my photo album from the trip, and I did find it helpful when planning my free time on my tour, but I only give it 3.5 stars.

[Taylor · Rating 2 out of 5]

I did not care for this book. I found the information to be surface level and lacking any depth. It was also very specific about trips, etc. rather than giving general information that any traveler could use.

[Sheri Fresonke Harper · Rating 4 out of 5]

Offered good ideas for useful places to see and included a map I was able to use. We got a helpful map from our hotel that was easier to use although we had access to the internet most of the time. I appreciated the photos and suggestions.

[Erin · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great resource. Good tips and really helped me plan my vacation.

[Tina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Skimmed through to help with planning my possible trip to Morocco and Spain in early 2023.

[Pedro Bello · Rating 4 out of 5]

3 ida a Marrocos, segunda com este livro.
nota-se alguma melhoria de vida em 10 anos.

[Kiran Mascarenhas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Delightful guide- it's both inspiring and ethical. If I weren't already going to Morocco I would start making plans based on this book.

[Nancy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very, very detailed, sometimes exhaustively so, discussion of Moroccan destinations, history and culture. Good reference work for my upcoming trip.

[Madkropotkin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love these books, they really help you create a very exact travel itinerary. I never go on guided trips or packaged deals because they herd you around like sheep and you only catch a glimpse of everything, but experience nothing. With this Morocco book. My itinerary was done before hand and I tried to follow it as best as I could. The only thing is that the photographs in the book are magnificent, but sometimes to magnificent. For instance, in Marrakech, there are ramparts encircling the medina. There are gate, called babs, which permit you to access the medina. On of these gates is the bab el-khemis and outside the gate there is the tomb of the seven saints. I saw the photo and thought cool, and I marked it ads something I definitely wanted to see in Marrakech. It looked like this was one of the things we were not going to see due to time constraints. But I insisted and told my wife that I would not leave Marrakech without seeing this tomb. So i dragged my wife and 7 and 5 year old children across town to see this incredible sight. To my astonishment, this area of Marrakech was completely run down and filthy. It seems as if we entered a more local area, something I have always loved to do in trips, but I have never done this with my children in tow and in a country where I only knew about a word in a half. We got lost and discovered cool things and a very nice textile working family. All thanks to the misleading photograph pof the tomb of the seven saints. Explore!

[Jeff Beardsley · Rating 5 out of 5]

My confession up front: I LOVE the DK Eyewitness Travel Guides. While they are not the “End All and Be All” of travel guides for me (I often supplement with other guides, histories and travelogues), I find that the DK guides set me the perfect travel spirit, and give me all that I need to prepare me for the trips I have coming in the future. I use them as my motivation and aide in developing plans.

That confession out of the way, I can easily give the DK Morocco Guide 5 Stars. It is beautiful! The pictures and description of the country, history, food and its people are stunning as always. While I did not use the book much during the 10-day trip I made to Morocco, it devoured it in advance. It helped me better understand and plan for each day of the adventure. I found no errors in this guide, but I don’t use it for hotel and restaurant information.

If you are going to Morocco, I highly recommend this book to help you plan for, prepare and inspire your trip.

[Pete daPixie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Vastly more data in this guide than I required, as my visit is just to Marrakesh. However I particularly enjoyed reading the historical section on Morocco, which then resulted in being drawn into the tribal and cultural sections of the book. Now I was hooked. In the end I had to check out the entire travel guide, region by region.
The usual colour glossy format from DK Eyewitness Guides!
Sweeping cobwebs from the edges of my mind
Had to get away to see what we could find
Hope the days that lie ahead
Bring us back to where they've led
Listen not to what's been said to you.

[JL Henderson · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this book because I had visited Casablanca, Morocco several years ago (for a work trip) and was interested in revisiting this country again because I enjoyed the food, scenery, and shopping previously. This book was good, but I had hoped for more discussion about artwork because I felt it was only a brief glance into that subject. But I did like the discussions about food and ancient sites to see.