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Day 4: Dealing with the merciless moneygrabbers
When we woke up, Aarathi was freezing with the extra blankets not having provided her the same warmth as extra blankets. She categorically refused to stay their another night, so we added that to the list of items we needed to take care of that day. Sure enough right on time Hajj the driver showed up with the highly recommended guide Mohammed, via …
Day 5: Voubilis/Meknes, Spice Guy gets Comeuppance
A little more rest this time, as we only needed to get out by 10. Fresh from the disappointment of being taken for a (not so good) ride yesterday, Aarathi made a couple of calls and found out that Moubarak from Hotel Maamoura could still rent us a car for 120 Euros a day for the desert, which seemed to be a fairly big savings on the quote we got …
Tannery! Tannery! Come! Come!
... insisted in a friendly way to take us to a tannery that he showed us from the rooftop. It looked exotic and we allowed him to take us there.
Touts: "My friend, Tannery? Tannery?"
We heard this line at least 100 times a day! Okay, maybe not exactly that many times but it felt like it! You see if a Moroccan brought a tourist to the Fez tannery they would receive a comission off of anything the tourist bought. That is why so many people ...
In Fes medina without a compass
... by Muslims. Mostly the water sellers are now purely decorative. Tourists can pose for photos with them for a fee. Water fountains are plentiful in the medina. Thry are tiled and colourful. Children fill plastic buckets. This is water for the house. Many homes in the medina don't have running water. Bathing is done at the hamman and water for drinking and cooking is collected from the fountain. We walk towards the Blue Gate, Bruce's attention is drawn to the music that people ...
"Can we pay them to leave us alone?"
... it with some more mud. She brushed extremely vigorously and we could see it on each other's faces as she pulled our hair backwards. At this point, there were about four locals on the other side of the room laughing at us as well.
We finally finished our bathing excursion and redressed. Upon getting back to our hostel, we immediately took showers with real soap. Overall, it was a hilarious experience ...
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