Les Jardins D Ines 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 ...

... kollat in staden ordentligt och irrat runt bland alla små gator och torg där de säljer allt möjligt och omöjligt bl.a. på jakt efter fina tofflor som Astrid vill ha med sig till Sverige. Jag (Karin) har redan blivit pålurad en henna-tatuering vars pris varierade mellan gratis och 400 dirham (knappt 400 sek). Slutligen kom vi ”överens” om 50 dir (försäljerskan var inte så nöjd med detta). Här är många sköna m ...

... 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.

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... a pic and Ian did not want the snake around his neck. He was demanding that we go to the bank and get some money and being really nasty so in the end I just dumped the 2d in his had and grabbed Ian and walked off.

We ended up having a walk around and going to the restaurant that we had seen in the day it was an oasis of calm after the street sellers. Ian had tajine of lamb and I had chicken we both had 3 courses and it cost us about 13 pounds and the food was lovely.

Met a fine fellow from Wales as a hopped off the bus in Marrakech (from Essouria). He was looking for an economical riad to stay and I knew just the place - the riad I'd dumped my rugs at just days prior.

After settling in, I invited him to tag along w/ me to grab a geocache at Menara Gardens. LOL ...

I arrive today very early in Marrakech, one of the most cosmopolitan cities of Morocco I'm told... after only a few hours spent wondering around its streets and ...

... tell us all of the history of Morocco and its famous cities, in addition to ask us for the social structure and history of our country. Unfortunately, instead of being able to enjoy a conversation with a person of our age and sex, the young woman spent most of the train ride translating for this curious man. However, the four hour train ride went by relatively fast and we were in Rabat in no time. When she picked us up, Dr. Kachani was pretty upset because ...

... lunch I called Issam (CouchSurfer) again, and he and his friend came to pick me up on motorcycles. He asked me if I didn't want to sit on his friend's bike, but preferred to sit on his, as he's a member of CouchSurfing and can be made reliable for anything that happens. His friend not, and I had no idea who he was. So off we went. It was my first-ever time on a motorcycle, and it wasn't the smoothest of starts!! He gave me his helmet, and drove like a complete ...