AnaYela 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...

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... 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!

... and left to have your own adventure. Side trips can be taken but they aren’t always organized by the driver. The road conditions vary from paved, dirt, mud, and everything in the middle. Sometimes you wonder how it is physically possible to make it through the narrow passengers that our driver navigates or the streets full of people and parked cars. It puts Austin Powers to shame. But there is really no other way to see Africa, at least for me.

... oils. I actually was subject to the henna con. They say "free" “Free” and you try to figure out how to politely say no thank you but before you know it you are being drawn on in Henna, badly drawn on, and bartering the price that was supposed to be free. My hand looks retarded by the way. Well I won’t fall for it a second time, I hope.

I highly recommend Marrakech for anyone thinking of going to Morocco but beware of cute henna ladies with freckles.

... while it died. Other than that, I was fine watching everything.

It was so intense to watch this sacrifice, in memory of God's test and one man's faith. The story is found in Genesis 22. Vs. 1-2 start: "Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am." Then He said, "Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the ...

... is sweet enough to send you into a sugar coma. Next, we stopped by the side of the road where there were a bunch of camels rolling around in their own poop. Not one to miss out on an adventure we jumped on the camels and went for a 20 minute ride with all the camels hooked together. Hanna's camel was the delinquent of the group and since he was first in line kept causing camel jams the whole ride. After the camel experience we drove ...

... a beer, take what you want and pay by the piece. It's delicious, but quite expensive, with most pieces costing around 1.50 Euro ($2.50) each. After a particularly raucous night at the hostel we were staying in (about a dozen youngsters - all seemingly American Idol wannabes - murdering Red Hot Chilli Peppers and 4-Non-Blondes at 3am in some sort of banshee inspired singalong), we decided we were too old and moved on - eight hours ...