Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
( 0535 535720; Derb Sekkaya, Tiberbarine; mains from Dh70, 3-course set menu Dh150)
A small restaurant
in a converted medina house, the tent canopy over the courtyard gives an intimate atmo-
sphere, set off by walls painted with henna designs and hung with bright fabrics. The
spread of cooked Moroccan salads is a big highlight of the menu.
Information
There are plenty of banks with ATMs in both the Ville Nouvelle (mainly on Ave Hassan II
and Ave Mohammed V) and the medina (Rue Sekkakine).
9am-midnight)
Internet.
Cyber Bab Mansour
(Zankat Accra; per hr Dh6;
0535 522805)
Off Ave des FAR.
Hôpital Moulay Ismail
(
Main Post Office
(Place de l'Istiqlal)
The parcel office is in the same building, around the corner
on Rue Tetouan.
Getting There & Away
Meknès has two train stations; use the more central
El-Amir Abdelkader
( 0535 522763)
.
There are plentiful trains to Fez (Dh20, one hour), and Casablanca (Dh90, 3½ hours) via
Rabat (Dh65, 2¼ hours), five for Marrakesh (Dh174, seven hours) and one for Tangier
(Dh85, four hours) - or take a westbound train and change at Sidi Kacem.
CTM bus departures include Casablanca (Dh90, four hours, six daily) via Rabat (Dh55,
2½ hours), Marrakesh (Dh160, eight hours, daily) and Tangier (Dh100, five hours, three
daily). The main bus station lies just outside Bab el-Khemis, west of the medina.
The principal
grand taxi
rank is at Bab el-Khemis. There are regular departures to Fez
(Dh16, one hour) and Rabat (Dh44, 90 minutes).
Grands taxis
for Moulay Idriss (Dh12,
20 minutes) leave from opposite the Institut Français.
WORTH A TRIP
VOLUBILIS & MOULAY IDRISS
In the midst of a fertile plain about 33km north of Meknès,
Volubilis
(Ouailili; admission Dh20, parking Dh5,
guide Dh140; 8am-sunset) are the largest and best-preserved Roman ruins in Morocco. One of the country's
most important pilgrimage sites, the lovely whitewashed hill town
Moulay Idriss
, is only about 4.5km from Vol-
ubilis.
A half-day outing by
grand taxi
from Meknès will cost around Dh350, including a stop at Moulay Idriss.
