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Customary mint tea poured high. |
What would you do if you landed in Marrakech and walked into your hotel to see this:
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The Courtyard: Pure Bliss! |
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Entryway to our Room! |
We had to wait awhile for our room and enjoyed exploring our hotel:
Almaha Riad. A riad is small boutique hotel, house style popular in the olden days: always has a courtyard (open air area-usually with a fountain) and several common rooms downstairs and bedrooms upstairs.
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Lunch |
Afternoon sightseeing with our guide Mustapha included Koutoubia Mosque (non-Muslims can't go in we had to look from outside), Bahia Palace, The Djema El Fna square the "greatest spectacle on earth" with snake charmers, drummers, jugglers, a market, food, fortune tellers.
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My first impression of the city, overwhelming, traffic, hustle & bustle, fights in the street!
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Koutoubia Mosque is in the center of the city & you can see it from most anywhere.
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Intricate wood carving - a feature of all mosques |
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Fountain in the center |
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Gorgeous tile everywhere--in the olden days Morocco's traded sugar for Italian marble. I think the Moroccans got the better deal. 😉
This is the Djema El Fna Square. We were warned to not take pictures as the locals get mad and demand a tip. |
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At the end of the day we enjoyed a glass of wine on the roof. Some room had access to their own patio on the roof (ours didn't) |
Pictures from below are day 2, when we had time to enjoy the roof after sightseeing. Cats everywhere, this one followed us around asking for food.
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Even David enjoyed the pool. Look at the rooftops of Marrakech in the background, full of satellite dishes |
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