Where's the overlander campsite in Marrakech?
 

Does anyone know where the overlander campsite in Marrakech is? GPS ref would be helpful!

on the right as you approach Mara on the Casablanca to Mara road - some 12 or so km from centre of Mara.....

Marrakesh campsite
 

Camping Relais de Marrakesh is much nearer town. Opposite the Stade de Marrakesh on the right as you approach town. 6€50 for two people plus tent. Much easier for visiting the Medina. And no noisy peacocks!

Jojo

N 031 38 438 W 007 59 883


regards

jeffwatts

Gone wandering

Koutoubia Mosque car park
 

We checked out one of the campsite about 12Km before Marrakech (can’t remember which one) but felt it did not look very lively, so we drove on to Marrakech and camped for the night in the car park of Koutoubia Mosque (N31˚ 37’ 30.7” W007˚ 59’ 50.5”) which is opposite the famous Djemma el-Fna night market. This was back in Dec 2004 and the car park attendant was okay with us setting up camp for the night.

Camping Firdaous
 

Hi,
I stayed in Camping Firdaous on the Casablanca Road outside of Marrakech. Would recommend it. Don't have waypoints though. :(

I did a search for "Camping Firdaous" on Google, though. It threw up:

• This page which contains the camping site's the phone number: 024 30 23 11. (Look for 'Campings' on the page when it loads, i.e. Ctrl+F and enter 'Campings'.)
• Strange page that seems to have various waypoints in an XML format.

I'm not a GPS user (yet!), but I expect this is a format that you can download directly into your GPS device. In any case, searching through the XML yields Camping Firdaous' location to be lat="31.719130" lon="-7.981863".

(Looks like this is the same 12-km-out-of-town site mentioned above; GPS agrees too.)

Hope this helps!
Ken.

Try here relaisdemarrakech.jpg

Jojo