Riad Dar Tibibt Marrakech

... After a stressful spell though the buzz of Marrakech makes me appreciate all we have experienced and everything us Westerners have even more. Morocco is more amazing than i remembered with its incredible colours, culture and continuous backdrop of distant mountain ranges.

Reality beckons as we are back by Chrimbo but for now we are losing ourselves in all sorts of surreal and out-standing cinema in the sunny but still cold capital...

XXX

... som glider runt i en slags rockar med stor luva som kallas jellaba. Allra finast är de män som matchar denna med en fez på huvudet, men solglajjer är också en poppis acessoar. Det har varit otroligt mycket intryck under dagen så nu vilar vi med en kopp marockanskt te på terrassen och laddar för att ikväll gå ner till det stora torget, Djemaa el-Fna, som är stället där allt händer kvällstid.

Lite senare. Mätta och ...

... but if you don’t care then African Trails will do just fine. In all honesty our truck doesn’t look nearly as nice as nice as others on the road but it has so much more personality and I don’t feel deprived of anything.

The Overlanding Experience

This is not your average air-conditioned tour, this is an overlanding tour. A tour implies a guide giving you direction and informing you on the sights and sounds of the areas you ...

... 1086;ним 72;ние.

Н ;о я предс 90;авил себе, как отец подзы 74;ает к себе сына и говор 80;т ему: "Сыно ...

Поезд непло 93;ой. Еду уже седьм 86;й час. На тележ 82;е разво 79;ят напит 82;и и круас 89;аны. Отлич ...

... goods fake bags etc and then we got to the big square I did not want to go until the night time but we could not miss it really. We got dragged straight away by a woman doing henna so I now have another henna tattoo.It only cost me 8 pound but she was dissapointed and I think she wanted more.

We then went and had some local mint tea and walked some more amazingly we did find our way back to our hotel and we went and sat on the terrace in the sun. Got ready after that ...

... stepping daintily around a dead chèvre (goat), we found the little sucker (a micro hidden in a cubby hole in a clay/straw wall) and... I do believe Wales now has a new geoaddict! ;D

That night (alas, my last in dear Morocco!), we headed for the legendary "Djemaa el Fna" Square for a sunset ...

... br>After a hearty beef tajine and a big pot of sugary mint tea we descended back into the
square, this time staying clear of the electric lights and white smoke
of the food stalls, and headed instead towards the mysterious clusters
of people in the dark. Behind these round walls of people, acrobats
climbed one another, dancers pranced, musicians played and storytellers
captivated with dramatic expressions strengthened by the ...

... to spin it. That's pretty awesome - to keep it at a consistent speed and to keep it going, it was really cool to see. He used his hands the same way as we do in the states and used a thread to cut it off the wheel. The coolest thing, actually was when he created the tajine. The tajine (a dish that they cook their Moroccan specialty in) has two parts, the top fits in the bottom - so, you have to make sure it's created ...

... with holes) Smen, preserved butter(the only time I ate it) and other moroccan tastiness. This in truth, was a superb choice for it had a great Terrace to see all of the Djmaa El Fna's liveliness from, catch some rays, grab lunch on , and we even had our own bathroom(when travelling cheap, this reaaaaaally is a luxury). We also looked around town at Riads, the equivalent of a bed and breakfast, but moroccan style with amazingly decorated rooms, an in house cook, sometimes pools ...