Sensory overload

Ahh Marrakesh! We LOVE this place! It was a total blast to bring Mum and Dad along. From the moment we stepped off the Easyjet flight to the moment we stepped back on it three days later our senses were in total overload. The smells - spices, meat, leather, wool, tajines. The sounds - call to prayer, horns, yelling, haggling, arabic music, drums, laughing, kids running through the narrow streets. The visual - rainbows of slippers, rugs, blankets, beads, painted walls, burkas, skies, tiles, people walking, riding, running past, horses, asses. The taste buds - Chicken and lemon tajine, beef and pear tajine, mint tea, fresh orange juice, nuts.
Amazing! The first two days we spent wandering around in a bit of a daze, shopping, site seeing and the last day we hired a guide (Rashid) to drive us into the Atlas mountains for a bit of country life site seeing. It was a very chilled out (and chilly) good way to see a bit more of Morocco. We had mint tea with a Burba in his village, lunch in the mountains and a flat tyre.

Mum and Dad thoroughly enjoyed themselves as did we! I hope we'll be back again one day! In the souq's...
The wool production area is fascinating
Dad getting swallowed up in the souq crowds
Lachie chilling out on the roof terrace of our Riad
The riad dog, watching the world go by...
Inside an old Arabic school
Mum in a doorway of the school

Having a crazy fun dinner in the main square
Getting in on the action
Visiting a woman's refuge where they produce oil
With Mum and Dad in a little village heading into the mountains
A local style sauna

How many men to change a tyre?
A pool in Richard Bronson's Kasbah (the most amazing hotel!)
A view down the mountains
In the Palm grove back on the edge of Marrakesh
Looking over the roof tops of Marrakesh at sunset...

Till next time...