Marrakech: My Perspective….So Far :)

It was my first official day in Marrakech 😉 After breakfast our Riad host generously took us out into the labyrinth of winding alleyways filled with honking and yelling, people talking in every language to one another, pockets of air containing exotic spices and other less pleasant pockets that smell of your friend the Honey Bucket. With so much going on its hard not to be completely overwhelmed and suffocated by all there is to see. Sooner or later you just start to see colors blending together. That doesn’t go on for long though, since you have to be alert in this city or else you’re going to get either run over by a motorbike, helplessly lost, or find that you’ve just spent your last dirham on the guy who eagerly placed his monkey on you and is now asking for money in exchange (that didn’t happen to us… yet).

As we were walking through the Spice Market we came to a cage filled with baby turtles and chameleons. I would say this was very strange and odd but here in Marrakech, everyone is selling such extravagantly random things! There were three cages; the bottom one holding the biggest turtles and the top one holding the babies. Mom, Dad, and Otto had been out into the craziness the day before the camel trek so they already had a sense of the place and had seen the turtles and chameleons. Well, like Tortuga in Seville, these turtles were green and had a shell. Nothing about them was extraordinarily different except that they were babies which make them so much more cuter, or should I say quooter?! We didn’t buy any, but we did snag a few spices and soaps to bring back to our quiet, comforting Riad. Hopefully I’ll soon be able to weave my way around Marrakech.