Frequently asked questions about Morocco                                                                    deutsche Version

Camping

Campgrounds don't have European standard, but are much cheaper. In the south you can camp anywhere without problems, but you will have a lot of guests. They just come and look. It is much easier to look for a place after sunset, most people will be at home and nobody knows that you are there. In the country people will respect tents, there are no attacks, but this can be different in beach areas. There you should go to a campground or stay with several cars.

Female traveler

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Ferry

There are ferries from Sète in southern France, Almeria, Algeciras and Tarifa. Of course Sète is not too far, but expensive. The journey will take 36 hours and you will arrive in Tanger well relaxed. In Algeciras is the cheapest ferry and the shortest time on the ocean, but also a very long trip if you come from England or Germany and you must count in the costs for hotel, gas and highway.

Here a few words from a Moroccan woman:

Hammam etiquette - you usually strip down to your underwear. No tops required. It's a good idea to have a little bath-mat to sit on. For the more intimate part of your bath, it's usually good etiquette to face the wall. Usually, the place consists of 3 steam rooms of increasing degrees of temperature. You are given buckets that you fill up with hot and cold water and you dispose them around you to kind of mark your territory. Usually the hot room is deserted, people go there only for a short interval to open up their pores.

Money

Since many years the Moroccan Dirham is very stable, the exchange rate depends on a basket (EUR 60%, USD 30%, GBP 5%, Yen 5%). The Dirham (DH) is divided in 100 Centimes. There are notes of 20, 50, 100 and 200 DH, 1/2, 1, 2, 5 and 10 DH.  

10 Dirham are about 1 Euro.

Export and Import of Dirham is not allowed, keep the exchange bills, because you can only change back a part of the money.

Converter for Dirham:    http://finance.yahoo.com/m5?s=MAD  

Rental cars

It is said often that if you want a good car and service you should book the rental already at home with a good international agency like Avis , Hertz or other. I always booked my car in Morocco with small agencies, got a good price and a good service. Assounfou Tours in Marrakech picked me up at Agadir and at Casa airport with my car. Flat tires are never included.

Marrakech: Europcar, 63 Bd. Zerktouni, Tel. 024 43 12 28, Fax 024 43 27 69, www.1stmaroc.com/europcar, E-Mail: maroc@europcar.ma

Lune Car, 111 Rue de Yougoslavie, Gueliz, Tel. 024 43 43 69, Fax 024 44 73 54, E-Mail: lunecar@iam.net.ma

Assounfou Tours, N 10 Imm. Chichaoua – Gaz Q.I. Sidi Ghanem, Tel. 024 44 98 36, Fax 024 44 98 94, E-Mail : assounfou@yahoo.fr, location-voitures-marrakech.

Beautiful Car, 92 Bd. Zerktouni, 1. Stock App. 2, Tel. +212 24 - 44 99 87, Fax +212 24 - 43 65 71, E-Mail: beautiful@iam.net.ma.

Amsterdam Car, 112 Md. Mohamed V, Gueliz, Tel./Fax +212 44 43 99 52, Mobil +212 61 13 18 06, amsterdam_car@essmaroc.com

Erg Tours, 220 Av. Moh. V, Gueliz, Tel. 024 43 84 71, Fax 024 43 84 26, E-Mail: Marrakech@ergtours.com

MONA LISA TOURS, Villa D31 - Lotissement Zohour - Quartier Aït Itti, Mobil +212 61 55 37 82, Fax +212 24 32 83 39, www.moroccar.com, infos@moroccar.com. Good communication via E-Mail, 4x4 ca. 100 EUR a day, they bring the car to Airport Casa.

Agadir: www.agadir-info.com/agadir/location-de-voitures.htm

Europcar, Ecke Bd. Moh. V, Rue Hubert Giraud, Tel. 028 84 03 37, Fax 028 84 50 24, www.1stmaroc.com/europcar, E-Mail: maroc@europcar.ma

Erg Tours, 4 complexe Anzi/Av. Moh. V, Tel. 028 84 11 11, Fax 028 84 17 17, E-Mail: agadir@ergtours.com.

Evita Cars, 13, Rue Moulay Driss, Tel. 028 82 17 62, E-Mail: evita-cars@comamail.com.

Columbias Cars, Talborjt, Tel. 028 84 39 39, Fax 028 82 50 50. 

Agadir: www.agadir-info.com/agadir/location-de-voitures.htm

Casablanca: Ennasr Car, 18 Bd. d’Anfa, Tel. 00212 (22) 22 08 13, Fax 22 07 78, E-Mail: ennasr@open.net.ma  

Melilla: Rent Car Melilla, Tel./Fax 0034 / 952 686 122, Mobile: 0034 / 639 196 660. Near Hotel Amphora and Hotel Rusadir. It is a better price than in Morocco, and you can go to Morocco without problem. 

Safety

Sahara trekking

Links to recommended agencies

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