Marrakech, Morocco, Africa We finished our trip off with a nice relaxing day in Marrakech riding camels. We found out yesterday that our camel trek today was going to pick us up at 10:20am rather than 9am, so that was a nice bonus. We were able to sleep late, get packed up and ready to check out of the hotel and go trekking. Our tour guide was right on time and we were greeted by the smiling faces of Patty…
Ouzoud, Morocco, Africa Today started off much better than yesterday. After breakfast, we found our tour guide waiting for us in the lobby…early! We got in the van and met the two English girls we would be sharing today’s excursion with. Patty and Kate were from Bristol, and are just travelling around the same as us, trying to find the touristy places. We settled in for the 3 hour drive ahead of us to the Ouzoud Cascades. We drove for…
Marrakech, Morocco, Africa Our second day in Marrakech didn’t get off to the best start. We were planning on going on a half day camel trek, which was booked and paid for a couple months ago. The tour guide showed up at 9am, picked us up and we went off in the van with a couple of other French people. We went to a very dodgy crossroads and waited for about 10 minutes. No other guests came, so the driver…
Marrakech, Morocco, Africa We arrived in Marrakesh at 6:00pm and walked off the plane to be hit in the face with a wall of heat. At that point it was only about 90*F (30*C). I can just imagine what tomorrow is going to be like out in the middle of the desert, on a dirty camel, in the beating sun, in the middle of the day. It’s gonna be great! We walked around the Marrakesh airport for about 30 minutes…