For those looking for a well priced hotel in Marrakech with all the facilities you would expect from a conventional hotel, the Tichka is one of our favourites. The Tichka is not situated within the Medina but is a 10 minute taxi ride from the central square.
With more than a nod towards Moroccan art and architecture, the hotel has great charm and character. It offers outside dining and two restaurants, spacious gardens and a large and attractive pool. In summer, breakfast and lunch are served around the pool with seating on attractive wrought iron furniture. The buzz of the city outside cannot be heard and the gardens are full of bird song. There is a traditional hammam (steam room) and massages can be arranged. This 130 bedroomed hotel offers rooms with flat screen TV's, air-conditioning, hairdryers and safes. Although the hotel chain is ownedby the Government and this can sometimes be reflected in the service, it is an ideal htoel for a family travelling on a not extensive budget. One must taken into account, hwoever, that you cannot just step out for eating and sightseeing, as every journey will involve a taxi ride, with a typical trip to the main square costing 50 Dirhams (a little under £5). If you want all the sights and sounds of the Medina right on your doorstep, you ought to choose a riad instead.
Few cities can be as beautifully sited as Marrakech. The surrounding land is watered by abundant rivers and streams from the Atlas Mountains, which provide a spectacular backdrop as they rise some 12,000ft. In the summer months, the heights are often lost behind a heat haze, but the winter visitor has the best of it, for then the peaks are covered in snow, always a beguiling sight in Africa. Read more?
Morocco is a country of immense and diverse physical beauty, with some of the most inspiring areas of pristine wilderness in Africa. It's also superb value and just a few short hours flight from the UK. From the snow-capped peaks of the High Atlas to its wave-strafed Atlantic coastline and on south to the billowing, seemingly endless sand dunes that run away into the Sahara Desert. For a country so close to Europe it’s exhilarating to find such an intact culture and epic North African landscape with real contrast to anything European at almost every turn. Leave Marrakesh and head south and in less than an hour you’re climbing into the foothills of the High Atlas Mountains. This is magnificent trekking country where you can thread your way among small Berber villages, supported by mule trains, either on foot or on horseback, supported with a light tented camp. Read more?
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Vanessa's 16 years in travel has seen her knowledge develop from sub-Saharan Africa into North Africa, Central and Southern America and the Galapagos. Consequently, she’s a veritable encyclopaedia of travel information and exceptionally cool, calm and collected in the face of the greatest planning demands.
At Natural High, we've had long experience putting together trips in Africa that really work. Whether it's intimate bushcamps in out of the way places, or a private lodge in one of Africa's top-billing wildlife areas, light mobile camping or remote island escapes, we know there is a lot to choose from. We're absolutely confident that we can recommend the right places for you.
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