RIAD LA PORTE ROUGE 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.

Lite senare. Mätta och ...

... significantly cheaper and their Trans went quite a bit further. We have run into the Oasis truck on numerous occasions and yes it is much nicer with coach seats and a better sound system but I'd rather sacrifice such things to be able to do more on my trip. I mean over $1000 in savings can go quite a long ways in side trips like rafting and shark diving. I would advise if you are choosing an overlanding trip that if you need the extra comfort to go with ...

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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.

... 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 ...

... The other downside of the town is its rapid growth and corresponding smog/traffic/motorbikes-running-over-to urists issue which were a shock after carless Chefchaouen and Fes. We were glad we got to see Marrakesh now as according to the locals these are new considerations which means they can only get worse as developers are developing as rapidly as possible throughout and outside the city. What few annoyances we suffered were more than compensated for by ...

After breakfast crossed the main square and headed for the souks of which there are many, dyers souk, shoes makers souk, metal workers souk, bad lampshade souk, honest my friend would I lie to you antique carpet souk,etc. Very full on experience as we knew what we wanted but didn't know in which direction to go. An hour later armed with a table that no doubt will not fit in our case and a throw we emerged exhausted. Just in time for a ...

... Nuestra primera impresion de este lugar es que es demasiado turistico y por lo tanto los vendedores estan re malcriados, queriendo cobrar barbaridades por un jugo, un dulce, unos datiles, un plato de cous cous, 2 km en taxi o por una foto con unas pobres cobras medio muertas, que estamos seguros muchos turistas poco cautos y bastante sonzos deben pagar sin regatear! Ademas son re insistentes, te agarran del brazo para que entres a sus locales y esto ...