Riad Al Faras Marrakech

Confirming my ever-strong belief in fate and allworking out eventually, we ended up in Morocco right on time for the 2009 Marrakech Film Festival! As film fanatics, we hot-well, actually cold-footed it-from freezing cold Casa to Marrakech making it just in time for films galore...

Getting back to the Western world is weird after adventures in African countries like Mali and Senegal as it seems so different yet only a drive-or even briefer flight ...

... sta äventyr blev en tur till en moppe-marknad. Vi höjde andelen turister där med 100% och Karin höjde andelen kvinnor med ca 50%. Det blev ingen deal idag men efter lite funderande (som innefattade uppgifter från vår hotellvärd om att det tar 28 tim. med buss till gränsen mellan Marocko och Mauritanien) har vi kommit fram till moppe nog är det perfekta färdmedlet för oss. Imorgon fortsätter toffeljakten!

Massa kramar!

... through. This is not your average tour. An overlanding tour is you plus twenty or more of your new closest friends living off an overlanding truck, a huge truck with a passenger compartment with flaps as windows and well worn seats all facing inward. Cooking gear and truck stuff goes in the undercarriage compartments while our stuff, tents and food go in compartments found under the seats and floors of the cab. Essentially you are hauled from place to ...

... 1088; 77;лом стай чаек. И по дорог 77; назад в Марра 82;еш, когда я слуша 83; Penny Lane и почем 91;-то был увере ...

... 1077;дро воды (или помое 74; – это кому как), то Марра 82;еш - это бейсб 86;льной битой по роже со вс ...

... went to ring Danielle and then went to look at a restaurant that we had got a flyer for in the day it did not open until 7 so we went to the square in the evening it comes alive with street food sellers and snake charmers Ian made the mistake of taking a picture then that was it the snake man came over and started putting the snake around Ians neck and they were demanding that I take a picture I said no as I know then that they want money and I only had 2d and I did not even ...

... 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 ...

... up) watched by the bag guy and collect both suitcases. Exit.

Now it gets better. I spot a guy with a limp holding a "Ric************" sign. He’s been there 2 hours 'cause our plane was late arriving and…. But, now we’re off to Marrakesh and, believe me, THIS AIN’T KANSAS, Toto!

You first see the traffic is different. Unlike Spain where motorcycles are often muscular, this is the Cuba ...

... where there wasnt any thing! We thought we might be better off doing it in town anyway so we fought through the taxidrivers trying to get our custom and jumped on the bus: it was twenty dirhams for the ride into town and we got a little map ,which shown us where we needed to get off: the hostel we were aiming for was just before the main square so we thought we:d get off a stop early and then walk up the road to it: this proved to be more difficult than ...

... place. In fact, we're hoping for a chance to hijack one of the old wooden carts to re-enact the plague scene from the Holy Grail. We haven't decided yet who will yell "Bring out your dead!" and who gets to say "I'm not quite dead yet. In fact, I'm feeling much better." Anyway, time to go. We plan to putz around here for a couple days, letting our bodies recuperate, and then finish off back in Marrakesh before starting our marathon return flight late Saturday night. Talk to you later.