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Memorable Marrakech and Other Places
... the city into the High Atlas Mountains. As we climbed higher and higher it got colder and colder but the valley was very green and pretty. We also stopped at a local Berber mud house where, for a small tip, we received fresh (we saw her cooking it on the stove when we arrived) bread, honey and butter as well as mint tea. It was interesting to see the inside of a real local house and we learnt that a few houses in the area open their doors to tourists ...
It was a long week
... something, but after that we had to book it back to the apartment because neither Guillaume nor I was feeling well.
Thursday we went out again to see some of the sites again that we felt like we didn’t get enough time at. We started at The three kings tomb and then Guillaume walked to the Kasbah while I went to meet him at the Medina entrance. We then headed back into the Medina to complete our shopping for the trip.
Since I still ...
Wonderful Rabat
... We agreed and proceeded to see everything there was to see. We first stopped at the Kasbah des Oudaias which is where Guillaume got his first lesson on being hustled. There is a particular type of scam common in countries with high tourism we fell into. It's when you go to see a site and someone offers very kindly to show you the site. They seem friendly and kind only trying to help unsuspecting tourists, but then at the end they demand money for ...
Morocco Part 1: Wait, are we really in Africa?
... The students we were placed with weren’t particularly chatty, but he said some things that really caught my attention. When I asked him what his plans were for after college, he looked at me as if it was kind of a weird question, and then replied, “Well that is up to destiny.” A little later, when I asked another question regarding the future he said, “ I leave that to faith. There is nothing I can do ...
Last night in Morocco :(
... any less pious. People often pointed to the girls we'd sometimes see in the skintight jeans and excessive jewelry with super-flashy scarves--just because you chose to wear the veil didn't mean you were necessarily adhering to the guidance that women should not attract undue attention. Also, many young women choose to begin wearing the veil when they get married, so the fact that they weren't in jelabas and veils at this exact moment in their lives didn't have ...

