Morocco

Marrakech markets are quite insane. There are snake charmers, palm readers, lots of spices and dried fruits and even more orange juice. There are also heaps of people that will hassle you out, but there's even a few funny ones to. I had one kid call out that they were selling 'fish and chips' in their stall which was obviously only selling spices. Anyway, I replied that I wasn't English and he quickly changed his mind and told me they were selling Kangaroo. haha

Here's a pic of one of the nicer looking shops that you would see on a postcard:)

We also saw this little guy trying to escape. And guess what? He made it! I think I even saw him at the airport as there was a very similar looking tortoise in one of the pot plants. Seriously.

Anyway, this is a picture of Nate standing outside our riad. You can probably hardly believe it's nice inside, but it was!

After Croatia I didn't think I would find another place with more cats. Well Marrakech is a big contender, but they had kittens. Millions of them! Here's a few, but there were at least 10 living in the streets near us.

Morocco also has lots of tagines. Lots. Although we only got couscous with one meal so I think I've been lied to about Moroccans eating couscous.

As we only had 4 days in Morocco I had booked a 3 day 4WD tour. It was good as we got to see a lot in a small amount of time, and I didn't have to drive. Anyway, as soon as we got out of Marrakech there was heaps of little shops selling fossils and rocks.

Some of the stuff was quite cool although the prices varied wildly.

We also went to a famous Kasbah where they have filmed movies like Lawrence of Arabia. It's called Ait Benhaddou and if you check the link you can see all the movies filmed there. It was pretty cool and is also a UNESCO World Heritage site (I told you we've been to a few!). We also saw a backlot in the middle of nowhere. There was an entire castle and also heaps of stuff for the Mummy movies too.

Anyway, here's a baby camel that I saw. How cute:)

The next day we went out to the Sahara Desert (although Nate and I are not convinced but we don't have a GPS to prove anything). Anyway, they had sand dunes and it was hot so who are we to argue. We went on a camel trek to our camp site and they gave us some head scarf things to wear. Apparently they had heaps of dark blue ones but Nate ended up with bright purple. He rocked it though...

We stopped along the way so people could sand board if they wanted to. And I think everyone did except us. haha.

Here's a picture of us on our camels while we were on our trek to our camp site(with no showers!). I stank like a dirty camel by the time we got there and still had to endure driving back to Marrakech the next day feeling filthy.

And here's a picture of Nate with one of the camels in the morning. It was pretty scary. I was convinced this one hated me and was on the verge of spitting.