Farah 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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... 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.

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We have been in Marrakech for three days now and I just finally made it into town because first I was sick then it was pouring down rain. What a drag. Anywho just thought I'd give a quick update since we aren't sure if we will have internet for the next couple weeks.

Thought I'd put in some general stuff

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... waiting with my name on a card ha. The taxi drove us to the edge of the medina as you cant get in with cars then the owner of the hotel turned up and a man with a large cart took our bags and started off down lots of small streets making turns here and there I am sure that we are going to get lost. We did get to the Riad and Mohammad who looks after the place told us to take a seat so we sat and he went in the kitchen and made us some amazing food and hot coffee it was ...

... 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 ...

... a big basket for our things and instructed to strip down to our underpants. We were then lead through a series of rooms where we had water thrown on us, oil rubbed on us and our skin scrubbed to within an inch of its life. At times we were directed to sit in a hot steam room with our skin covered in a spicy smelling mud. It was a very surreal experience. When it was over we were given robes and led into a semi dark room, splashed with rose water and allowed to lie ...

... The Palace Complex There are dozens of Palaces in use in Marrakesh, many of them are not open to the public, there is a whole complex of them surrounded by grand walls, we decided to walk around them and it really is like a maze, it was fun but a little pointless :-) Expect!!!!! If you ask for directions, expect the person to ask for money at some point, if they help you lots and are ...

... tourists in a vague attempt for monetary handouts or food. That sort of thing gets you thinking and sets you back. We had a stickybeak at some more historical sites, the Saadian tombs, the palace of Bahia, and generally just roasted around in the serious heat of the Moroccan sun. Consumed a meal for lunch, served by an effervescent and welcoming restaurant host, then more or less chilled on the terrace of Hotel Chella, watching as the afternoon slipped us by ...