Blogs from Meknès-Tafilalet, Morocco, Africa - page 18

Woke up early and I went to this cafe I had seen last night. The owner was nice man and spoke English. I had something called Feve its like a lentil soup. I think anything with the right amount of salt will taste nice. Checked email and thereafter checked out of the hotel and took a grand taxi to Meknes. The trip took around 1.5hours. I met this girl in the taxi who spoke English and we got chatting. She said her dream was to go to London what a shock !!!! she was studying at the Ismail university in Meknes and her home town was Ifran. Ifran also has a big university but thats for the beautiful and rich as lonely planet puts it. But she did tell me its extremely expensive. She also mentioned ... read more

I woke up around 8am and took a shower. Had mint tea and had a chat with the owners son. I said what I can afford is Dhm550. He said the lowest is 650 and then after bargaining it became 600 and then I said come on I am a student from Sri Lanka I don’t have much money and that he wouldn’t have to spend much money on food because I'm vegetarian and lets do this for 550. He said let me go and check and came back after 2 mins and said ok 550 and deal. Afterwards I met Daniel from Sweden who had already spent 2 nights in the desert and asked him how his experience was and he said it was soo good he can’t explain it in words. I wanted to ... read more

We are in Rabat but camping in the next town across the river called Sale, it is next to the river front and you can smell the delicious fish being cooked from the various food stalls, we took a walk for a bit around the ocean front and it was full of rubbish and next to slum looking area, some people are fishing as well. The people are very nice and greet us politely as we walk along, Mark almost got bitten by a dog but didnnt so that was good. We are staying here mainly to apply for visas to Mauritania and Mali, we stayed for three nights , we cant really go around town until after noon to make sure we are around if problems with visas arise. We drove as far as we ... read more

It has been a whirlwind of activity since the last post. We finished up our Sociology and Arabic courses with a pretty brutal final exam in Arabic, and a quite lax one for Sociology. We spend the previous weekend studying, and making last minute stops to shops, interesting sites, and Marjane—a very large supermarket that gave us a little slice of the huge supermarket scene we were accustomed to at home. In Morocco, most stores are specialized and often quite small, so it was very rare for us to see something this large. If we weren’t making it on foot in the Medina, we were most likely traveling around by Taxi—an experience in which a co-traveler, Monica, documents quite well in this narrative. http://docs.google.com/View?docID=dd4bh73x_1fh66km&revision=_latest In Morocco, I have felt that I have made a stronger connection ... read more

The lake to Fes..Dan. OK I just have to say camping at the lake was great, mate. The thing was massive, and in a dry desert like Morocco even more appealing than a nice lake in NZ. There were dead fish, each about a metre in length scattered around the shore line but the local campers who aside from being high on hashish seemed very reliable, assured us it was safe to swim. So after dinner, of sponge cakes and dry biscuits, which Kees rudely decided to throw up later in the night, we headed down to the shore for a swim. Boy that water was beautiful, the temp was about perfect and after a no. of days at critical body temp, I couldn't think of anywhere better to be. Went for a swim again in ... read more