So we took a bit of a slow pace today. We started by going to the post office to mail our purchases home. That was a bit of a process but it got done. I hope it arrives safely. We then went to the Marrakesh museum which was in a beautiful old palace. It was not what I expected. I was told that it told the history of Marrakesh. It was really just a selection of artifacts and pictures. We then went to the martekesh house of photography. Basically it’s a colle...

So we went to the story telling tonight. The first two stories were told i English by twenty something university students. And the last one was told in Arabic by a 75 ish year old master story teller. None of the stories told were particularly great. However, I enjoyed every minute of it as the story tellers were so engaging without having any audience participation. Each story was about half an hour long and by far the most entertaining one was the Arabic one w...

So we made it to marrekesh yesterday afternoon. We checked in to the hotel and grabbed a lunch. We then met up with the group for our final bus ride. We got dropped off at the Medina and said good bye to the bus driver. We then had a tour of Saladin tombs and of the nearby palace. Each grave had a tile floor above it and some had buildings constructed around it. The palace was beautiful and had beautiful tile and stucco work. We then had some free time in the...

As we are on our last long bus ride of our tour (headed for Marekesh) I feel like I should write some of the themes. It was much colder than the normal temperatures for Morocco. Days were probably below 10. The hotels had insufficient heating to keep up. We were very cold in our tent in the Sahara and most other nights we were just very cold getting into bed but once the blankets were warmed up we were cozy. Hotels were inconsistent in providing hot water. So...

So today we left the toudra gorge at a reasonable hour and started driving towards Ait-Ben-Haddou. We stopped to check out several kashbas, Which are morrocan fortified houses. Most of the building were made of mud and straw bricks. We think that our hotels last night and tonight are made of the bricks as well. Though there is a part of me that wants to believe it is a fake treatment they have just applied to the walls. Upon arriving in Ait-Ben-Haddou we walked...