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Essaouira to Luton a born-again era

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<span style="font-family: inherit;">According to the the British newspaper, "The Daily Telegraph" , the city of Essaouira will be <a href="http://s.telegraph.co.uk/graphics/html/Years/2014/December/EndOfYearTravel/index.html">among the twenty</a> most globally popular and attractive touristic destinations in 2015.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It highlighted also, in the recent section of travel and tourism trends, tourism qualifications of this coastal city, quiet and famous along history, which dazzled famous musicians and movie starts in the sixties such as Jemmy Hendrix and Cat Stevens...etc</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">reported that the glow  coastal city of Essaouira by its Gnawa Festival, will be strengthened </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">by direct easyJet flights</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> with the city of Luton (about 50 kilometers north-west of London) by the "low-Coast-East Gate."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The British newspaper announced that a direct air route between the towns of Luton and Essaouira will facilitate the travel of British tourists around the city without going through the city of Marrakech, highlighting that Essaouira Bay is a place of pilgrimage for ornithologists and  surfing amateurs, thanks to winds that constantly blow over the city and often strong at the level of the city's coast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The "Daily Telegraph" confirmed that the attractiveness of the city of Essaouira is reflected especially in the hospitality and the kindness of Essaouira's people, the beauty of alleys and popular markets; which suggests to its beloved visitors a broad range of wooden and leather products  as well as the authentic dishes of Moroccan cuisine.</span></span></div>
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The Paradise Valley and Immouzer

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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The Paradise Valley and Immouzer</b></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX8yloi5xDDTbtmcRYDZdIR9QXjehJLHGUTb5tNl9ApUmIBIVqfWVUERVPIejTC3Mo0UnLvmSZSv-VBw7BSh0es_CweN-XOB6FkgUxj-3Pdz6cBUjQwHflGtGoXChB0-oIqwY24iorw6a-/s1600/5018500964_da58b7403b_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX8yloi5xDDTbtmcRYDZdIR9QXjehJLHGUTb5tNl9ApUmIBIVqfWVUERVPIejTC3Mo0UnLvmSZSv-VBw7BSh0es_CweN-XOB6FkgUxj-3Pdz6cBUjQwHflGtGoXChB0-oIqwY24iorw6a-/s320/5018500964_da58b7403b_b.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">The trip up to Immouzer des Ida Outanane – via Paradise Valley, a beautiful palm-lined gorge – is a superb excursion from Agadir. It is feasible in a day (Immouzer is 62km from Agadir) but much more enjoyable if you stay the night at one or other of the superb auberges or take time to explore and camp in the valley. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The 7002 road to Immouzer is surfaced the whole way; it leaves the N1 coast road at Aourir, 12km north of Agadir (make sure you take the righthand fork in the village – the left-hand one is a dead-end, up a palmery). A daily bus leaves Agadir Thursdays at 7am, other days at 1pm (from a small parking area on Bd Mohammed Cheikh Saâdi, 200m southeast of its junction with Av du 29 Février), arriving in Immouzer four hours later; on Thursdays it goes back later in the day, otherwise it returns the following morning at 7am. Alternatively, take a grand taxi or city bus to Aourir, from where there are shared grands taxis to Immouzer, though mostly on Thursday for the weekly souk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A surfaced road also connects Immouzer with the N8 <b>Agadir–Marrakesh road</b>, allowing easy access from Ameskroud, Taroudannt or Marrakesh, a highly scenic route.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Paradise Valley </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Paradise Valley begins around 10km east of Aourir, as the road sweeps down into a deep, palm-lined gorge, with a river snaking along the base. The best stretch starts just after the turn-off for <b>Immouzer</b>. You can hire a mule to explore the valley’s numerous Berber villages, and it’s a glorious place to camp, though pitch your tent well away from the riverbed in case of flash floods.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b> Immouzer des Ida Outanane and beyond </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <b>IMMOUZER DES IDA OUTANANE</b> is a minor regional and market centre (of the Ida Outanane, as its full name suggests). The waterfall, for which the village was renowned, is nearby, and was best seen at its foot, 4km downhill to the northwest. Unfortunately the falls have been very adversely affected by drought over the last few years; tight control of irrigation now reduces the cascade on most occasions to a trickle, with the villagers “turning on” the falls for special events only. However, the petrified canopy of the falls is of interest in its own right, and there’s a full plunge pool. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> There’s a hamlet just across the stream from the foot of the falls, and a café (Café de Miel) with basic food, near which you can camp out in the olive groves. The whole area is perfect for walkers. You can follow any of the paths with enjoyment – a good one, near the village, cuts up across the cliffs to the Hôtel des Cascades – or even trek off to the Marrakesh road . The birdlife adds an exciting dimension, with birds of prey commonplace; Bonelli’s eagle is a good bet, and you might well spot golden eagles or crag martins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> In Immouzer village, there’s a souk every Thursday. The local speciality is honey, made by bees that browse on wild thyme, lavender and other mountain herbs. There’s also a honey moussem every August for a week starting in the middle of the month.</span></div>

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Taghazout : surfing high tides (North coast of Agadir)

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<b>North of Agadir: the coast to Cap Rhir</b></div>
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Along the coast north of Agadir, tourist<br />
 development rapidly commences to fade, and the beach at Taghazout (19km from Agadir) belongs to a different world, with entirely local accommodation and not a “proper” hotel in visual perception. This – and the coast towards Cap Rhir – is popular surfing territory. The route is withal a good one for bird-watchers – as is the coastline south of Agadir. Public convey is pretty straightforward. From Agadir,  buses  run customarily up the coast to Taghazout, perpetuating to Tamri, while Essaouira and Imssouane buses take the route beyond, via Cap Rhir. The coast is a good target, additionally, if you rent buggies or motorbikes in Agadir.</div>
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<b>Agadir to Taghazout</b><br />
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One of the stranger sights of the Souss and circumventing coastal region is <a href="http://moroccanguide.blogspot.com/2009/10/geotag-icon-spotlight-all-about-argan.html">goats browsing among the branche</a>s of spiny, knotted argan trees, a species homogeneous to the olive that is found only in this region. Though some younger goatherds seem to have a sideline in charging tourists to take photographs, the authentic object of the exercise is to let the goats victual the outer, fleshy part of the argan fruit. The hard, inner nut is then cracked open and the kernel crushed to extract the expensive oil. Argan oil is saccharine and affluent, and is utilized in many Moroccan dishes and in salads, or for dunking bread. It is withal used to make amalou, an ambrosial dip of argan oil, honey and almond paste.</div>
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An expensive delicacy, argan oil is not facilely extracted: whilst one olive tree provides around five litres of olive oil, it takes the nuts from thirty argan trees to make just one litre of argan oil. Plastic bottles of argan oil are infrequently sold at the roadside in the Oued Souss area, but are often adulterated with more frugal oils. It is therefore better to buy argan oil or amalou from a reputable source such as the cooperatives at Tidzi , Tioute , or Tamanar , the honey shop in Agadir, or specialist shops in Marrakesh or Essaouira. Argan oil is withal sometimes sold in more astronomically immense supermarkets.</div>