Ok so I figured I would write a bit about my trip to Morocco with Sara cause it was pretty cool ...and also kinda not so cool haha :P . So the thing is we were actually supposed to go to Brazil over the christmas break and we had been looking forwards to it so much and had the whole thing planned and everything until we arrived at the aiport .... Mr Skelton do you have your visa here ..... I dont need a visa do i? ....yes sir you need a visa .....oh FUCK !!! Still cannot beleive that me or Sara didint check if we needed visas but it turns out Brazil is the only country in South America where I actually need a visa THE ONLY FUCKING ONE !!! I could have gone to Bolivia or Chille or Colombia but not bloody Brazil ...anyways long story short we ended up going to Morocco instead for 2 weeks and it was pretty cool :)
Ok so first of all EVERYONE is trying to rip tourists off in this country and its just stupid that they do that because their economy relies so heavily on the tourist trade ....it really fucking annoys me because they are just stupid in thinking they can treat everyone like a piece of shit and expect them to go back home and tell everyone how amazing it was ....seriously think of the future you stupid people .
Ok so im just gunna rave on for a bit about all the different ways they try and rip you off lol . First thing we did was jump in a taxi and there was a guy yelling at us " YOU NEED TAXI YOU NEED TAXI " and we said yes we do so he showed us to a taxi about 50m away and then demanded we give him some money just for finding the taxi ...then when we got out of the taxi the driver ripped us off with the change ... I knew he was doing it but just couldnt be fucked arguing about 2.5 Euros so I just let it be.
All of the tours we went on were totally fucking shite , we booked a heap of tours through this one agency and they showed us pictures and explained everything very nicely and it genuinely seemed like they all would be fantastic and a life changing experience almost ....they were not. We went on a "Sahara" tour which involved being driven around by the guides and stopping at all these stupid argan oil shops and pottery places that were obviously run by their friends and they all just push you in and expect you to spend money and there are so many of them its unbeleivable ... rug stores , silverware stores , pottery stores , argan oil places and so on , we only actually ended up spending about 30 minutes on the "Sahara" and it was not the fucking Sahara they just drove right to the very edge of it and then said there you go this is it and then we went on a camel ride for about 10 mins and at the end of course they wanted about 20 Euros EACH for a fucking 10 minute camel ride ...we ended up giving them about 10 Euros all up . The next tour we went on was a camel ride tour which was supposed to be in a nice forest next to a river ....it was not ....they just dropped us off about 20 mins drive out of town with these weird people with camels and then we proceeded to take a camel ride THROUGH SLUMS !!! Seriously there was rubbish piled up everywhere and kids playing soccer on a patch of dirt in amongst all the mess ...I mean it was cool to see a different side of things but not when u paid for it and paid a fair bit of money ...I think this tour cost about 30 Euros each . The last tour was to Marrakech stopping at some town where Jimi Hendrix used to chill out in his day and we stopped there for about 2 hours of course in between getting shuffled off the bus and into these stupid shops of their friends ....in the end Sara and I just refused to go with them and said we will wait here by the bus and we would walk around a little by ourselves . But on this tour we walked through some amazing markets and small alleyways in a really old area of the town and the guide was so shit and boring and monotonous and if you stopped to take a picture of something or look at something he would actually get pissed off ... fucking shit tours .... but it was not all bad and now I will tell you about the good ;)
So we went to Marrakech and it was just freaken AMAZING as we stayed pretty much on the main square of the town which is just a huge melting pot of people and animals and crazy shit going on haha , in the day they have people with monkeys basically throwing the monkeys ( literally ) onto you and trying to get you to take a picture so they can try and rip you off haha and they also did the same with snakes aswel which I did not apprectiate ...one morning I woke up and this guy wanted to put his stupid Moroccan hat on me and I was so hungover and he just wouldnt stop I ended up throwing it on the ground and yelling at this guy and nearly punching him in the face ...glad I didint . But this square was amazing as it was also attached to a huge market with seriously everything you could ever imagine and we spent a lot of time in the souk ( Moroccan market ) barganing with people and no doubt getting ripped off in the process but happy to because it was so much fun and the people were actually nice ....apart from the fact that nearly everyone would drag you into their store ....you get used to that after a while. At night the square basically turns into one huge restuarant as they set up about 100 really small restuarants in the sqaure and cook and serve the food right there in the same place ...one restuarant would probably be the size of an average living room . The atmosphere in these places is amazing with all the smells and the music and the people , we actually ended up sitting next to a couple from Brisbane where im from in Australia on one of the nights which was really random and cool so we had a good chat and then went our ways :)
Sara and I with some of the snakes in the square ....I was shitting my pants about the cobra haha
One of the best things we did when we were there was to take a horse and carriage ride around Marrakech with this really nice old man who charged us about 20 Euros for a 2 hour tour which was amazing ....he offerered me 100 camels for Sara as a wife but I said it would have to be 500 and then we would have a deal haha . It was so nice to meet someone who was genuinely friendly and didnt try and rip us off so in the end we gave him 30 Euros for being so nice and taking us on a great tour , he was very happy and so were we ....if only the rest of the people in his country would realise that being friendly actually gets you a long way , but unfortunately I dont think this will ever happen and im sure this means that for a lot of people Morocco will be a one time destination ... I have talked to a lot of people about it and they all think the same as me unfortunately :(
Anyways all in all its a nice and very interesting place with a lot of weird and wonderful shit but you just got to be careful of all the people trying to scam you ....there were many other times we did get ripped off or they attempted to rip us off but I just didint want to go on about it for to long . Anyways thats enough rambling thanks for reading it all if you came to here and hopefully I will see you soon with another post in me mega awesome blog yo ;) :P
That is all , Peace out , Catch :)
This whole meal cost about 7 Euros and it tastes as good as it looks !!! Amazingly awesome !!! :) :)
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