Sorry it has taken me so ABSOLUTELY long to post this next post! I have been so busy catching up after fall break this week. I wish I wasn't so good at procrastinating until the last minute on everything!
Anyway, back to Morocco! :)
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| A picture I took from our terrace at sunset. This picture just doesn't do any justice to how beautiful it was. |
The next day, we talked Aziz into giving us a tour of the coastline and a small fishing village near Tangier. We were able to stop quite a few times and take some pretty great shots. It was so beautiful and the little town was pretty great! This lasted most of the day, and we then returned to our hotel. We hung out until dinner time and then headed over to a local restaurant recommended to us by our hotel. We had soup, amazing "moroccan salads" (much different than the salad you're picturing. It's much closer to salsa than salad.) and yummy chicken on long skewers. The chicken was grilled and basted with some kind of a yummy curry sauce. Oh how I wish I had a big cookbook of all the wonderful foods I've had the opportunity to try here! There was also a live band playing all night. They each had a variation of some kind of a guitar, and one man had huge bongos. The music totally set the atmosphere for a great dinner.
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| The band that played at dinner. They were so great! |
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| One of the beautiful coastlines shots I was able to take. |
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| Inside the mosque we visited. We also recieved an e-mail today that said our flight from Madrid to Paris had been canceled, because of the recent strikes (as well as terrorist threats) that have been going on in Paris. We were all very bummed but agreed that we should not risk it, especially if they were trying to keep us out. We thought about alternative plans all evening (Portugal, Brussels, London, Berlin, and Cape Town all made it on the "list" of possibilities) but in the end, decided to stay in Tangier for the remainder of the week and fly back on Sunday. We felt this would be a great opportunity to get a real taste of Morocco and the culture. |
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| A newspaper in the vehicle we took on our coastline tour. So cool to see it written in Arabic, even though we will never know what was happening that day! |
We spent the next few days exploring around Tangier and relaxing at the hotel, which was much needed after our adventures in Spain. We were able to check out all the markets (without Aziz) and even got a little sun up on the terrace. We visited a Muslim Mosque, which was very interesting. I have never learned much about this religion, so it was a great eye opener. The Mosque was huge and had a large garden/terrace area in the middle. We would have never known about this beautiful oasis in the middle of the city! We walked down to the beach one day, and returned to numerous restaurants for yummy dinners in the evening. When all was said and done, we decided that we made a great decision in staying. Morocco is sure is an amazing place!
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| One of the women who worked at our hotel. Her name was Amel and she was so sweet! She has two children and showed us many pictures of them. She gave me a bracelet, which was SO NICE! I loved Amel! |
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| A long line of slippers they decorated our floor with. |
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| Our daily breakfast at the hotel. I miss it! |
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| A few of the buildings downtown in Tangier. |
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| A bedroom my friends stayed in at the hotel. So cute! |
That breakfast looks amazing! Were the slippers for you to actually wear or just for decoration? The sky in the mosque is SO blue. Wow!
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