Marrakech | Traveling Humans

/ DESTINATION #8 /

MARRAKECH

/ JULY 3–8, 2017 /

After Merzouga, we were excited to get back to a city. Marrakech is chaotic and beautiful. We decided to buy most of our souvenirs for the trip here, so we did a lot of shopping.

I don't have pictures of the cafe our van stopped at on the way from Merzouga to Marrakech, but I do remember that Brandon and I each ordered spaghetti. We were so. sick. of tagine. Also these puppies were there.

Jemaa el-Fnaa square, where we met our riad host so he could show us the way to the hotel. We were a couple hours late because a girl in our van had gotten really carsick on the hilly roads and had to stop several times to throw up. (She was the only local in the van; the rest of us were tourists. We tried giving her water and GinGins, but it was pretty hopeless and obviously miserable...we felt so bad).

Out on the town with our giant bottle of water! We found someone selling coconut and pineapple slices, too.

More street kittens

On the way to see some architecture

Palais de la Bahia, a beautifully decorated 19th century palace

This courtyard was way too cool.

Ceiling decorations

Brandon getting the perfect ceiling shot

Plaster decorations

In the garden

So many nooks!

At a hippie cafe

Cracking open a fizzy water — a major treat in the heat.

The market

After our local hammam experience in Fes, we decided to try out a touristy one. It was more like a spa, and they gave us cookies!

Ladies selling cookies in the street. They come out every night and sell chewy coconut cookies for twenty cents.

Brandon joined in this game in the square. The goal was to hook a ring over one of the soda bottles. It was super hard; no soda for us!

There were only one or two other guys who had any luck.

This was a very strange passageway decorated in honor of Morocco's king, Mohammad VI.

Our riad

Common area

Rooftop lounge

The train station, where we had to go to buy our tickets to Tangier in advance.

There were shops like this all over the place.

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