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Aug. 20th, 2009 05:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Had a wonderful night's sleep. The Marrakesh Express may be one of the great train journies of the world, all 10 hours of it, but it's also hotba d sweaty, even in the first class 4 berth couchettes. We only had one cabin mate, a heavily muscled skinhead with "Islam" tatooed across his shoulders. He looked at the cabin, shrugged, swung himself onto a top bunk without using the ladder, sighed "just like prison" and that was the last we heard from him.
Marrakech has been a mixture of Arabian Nights and the Barras. Last night we got chased out of the square by a massive lightning storm, and waded our way back to the riad. Today we shopped in the souks. Mikey picked up a pair of harem pants and a somewhat geographicLly challenged palistinian shawl. I got the djebella and slippers I had promised myself. We both felt ok about the prices , which is the main thing when haggling. Mikey wanted to buy a blanket for what he thought was a fair price, but I told him to put it off until we get out of Marrakech.
Our plans are shaping up to be two more nights in Marrakech and then hire a car and do the trip through the high Atlas to the edge of the desert, then to the coast.
That's subject to finding somewhere to stay tomorrow night, and getting a good deal on car hire...
Marrakech has been a mixture of Arabian Nights and the Barras. Last night we got chased out of the square by a massive lightning storm, and waded our way back to the riad. Today we shopped in the souks. Mikey picked up a pair of harem pants and a somewhat geographicLly challenged palistinian shawl. I got the djebella and slippers I had promised myself. We both felt ok about the prices , which is the main thing when haggling. Mikey wanted to buy a blanket for what he thought was a fair price, but I told him to put it off until we get out of Marrakech.
Our plans are shaping up to be two more nights in Marrakech and then hire a car and do the trip through the high Atlas to the edge of the desert, then to the coast.
That's subject to finding somewhere to stay tomorrow night, and getting a good deal on car hire...
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