Morocco Day 3 (February 5, 2009)

I hate to say it but the third day in Morocco was nowhere near as adventurous as the previous. Breakfast was great though: fresh fruit, Moroccan pancakes (similar to crepes), hard-boiled eggs, and great coffee – everything incredibly fresh. Our bus was scheduled to head back to Casablanca at 12:30, so we had about an hour and a half to walk around Marrakech for the last time. This time we got the address of the market, took a cab, and it ended up being much easier than yesterday. Walking around the market was pretty amazing. Like I stated in my previous entry, we saw produce stands, boot-leg movies and music for sale, a number of vendors selling clothes, snake charmers, and guys with chained up monkeys doing tricks. These men would physically hold the monkey’s arm out to you, and ask you to touch it. I ended up getting a great picture of this, but there is no way that I was touching one of those animals. We also noticed that one of the monkeys was wearing a diaper. It turns out that before being strapped up with a diaper, this monkey had a problem with throwing his…well…you know…at people. This diapered monkey was a pretty funny sight and story. We ended up stopping by a few stores to do some bartering and I ended up buying only a pair of fake sunglasses. The rest of the day was left for the bus ride back to Casablanca.