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Peace Corps/Morocco 50th Anniversary Celebration
Memorial Day Weekend May 26-27, 2012 Rabat, Morocco

Trip options

You might want to show family and friends Morocco, and these links make it easy for you.

  Travel in Morocco from the FOM Links page

  Travel Services for Morocco from the FOM Souk page

  Annuaire des Hotels Rabat This is the most comprehensive listing I've found

  Car Rental: Choices at Kayak Note: Manual transmission is generally the default

  Train Schedule, Timetable, & Ticket Information by Journey Beyond Travel
        ONCF

  Private programs for independant travelers can be arranged with:
        Cross Cultural Adventures with Director, Piotr Kostrzewski, RPCV 77-79
        Casablanca Travel and Tours with Hassan Samrhouni, FOM Board of Directors
        Journey Beyond Travel Great Travel Guide
        Noble Journeys organizes independent tours such as the below

  OPENING DOORS IN MOROCCO 2012
May 19 – June 2, 2012 $3,175
with Susan Shaefer Davis and Joan Noble of NOBLE JOURNEYS
This trip, led by a former PCV who is currently an anthropologist, focuses on cultural tourism.  You will meet many local people in their villages and homes and learn about their lives, in addition to seeing the usual sites.  We suggest people on the 25th heading back to Rabat from Midelt, and joining the group on the 27 in Marrakesh.  We could arrange a grand taxi with a good driver.]  Then they could visit with old pals in Rabat in the morning of the 27 and catch a train south to arrive for dinner. You can also arrange a custom tour with NOBLE JOURNEYS.

  WARP Textile Trip
June 2-10, 2012 $1995
Weave a Real Peace (WARP) is a networking organization of weavers, academics, and interested supporters who value the importance of textiles to communities around the world. Open to anyone who joins WARP.

  Web guide to ecotourism and sustainable nature tourism in Morocco

  Mawazine is a festival of world music that takes place annually in Rabat featuring Arab, African and international music icons May 18-26. 2012. Mawazine (“Rhythms”) is a festival of world music that takes place every year in the Moroccan capital of Rabat, featuring Arab and international music icons from all parts of the world. Over 140 performances, generally free, in ten venues arould Rabat from Morocco and around the world (Iran, Egypt, Lebanon, Jamiaca, France, Iran, Russia Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso, Tobago, South Africa, Benin and Cameroon and the U.S.) including Jimmy Cliff, Mariah Carey, Lenny Kravitz, Gloria Gaynor, Scorpions, Khaled, Evanescence, Pitbull, LMFAO, the Turkish Fire of Anatolia, Yolanda Be Cool and DJ Abdel.

  The Fes Festival of World Sacred Music is a world event that is created to harness the arts and spirituality in the service of human and social development, emphasizing the relationship between peoples and cultures. The Fes Festival explores the vast repertoire of sacred music and rhythms created across the globe since the dawn of man. The 18th Annual Festival will take place in the holy city of Fez opening on June 8 and continuing through June 16, 2012. The theme is «Re-enchanting the World» and pays special tribute to the great Persian poet « Omar Khayyam », who is very well known by his famous Quartets "Rubaeyyat"

  For travel information see also the Travel Section of the Links page


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