Tuesday 27 May 2014

Marrakesh - The land of God - the land for tourists

Marrakesh - one of the most beautiful cities in the world. We reached around 10 pm and the city was still on high. We were little lost in locating our hotel. I had to take lead to search hotel, this search was a thrilling experience. We were strolling through some dark and weird looking streets. We followed an old person through narrow & dark streets. One street was completely dark, no sign of any human existence; we were about to turn back but decided to continue for the final and last stretch. Luck favored us and we finally found the hotel. It was decent hotel with nice people. Owner holds a strong sense of humor and staff is very cooperative and focused to the service. We had our breakfast on terrace with full team. It was just amazing, breeze and breakfast both were superb. 

Team Breakfast
We roam around to visit tombs, palaces and Medina of Marrakesh. 

Team looking for places
In queue for tomb
Marrakesh Medina is amazing. It is full of life. Very touristy place with lots many shops, everyone offering something unique. Dresses, shoes, leather goods and spices. We had lunch on terrace with amazing view of spice market. Post lunch strolled through souke, shopping couple of items with best bargainer in team.

Moroccan spices
Spice Market

Evening we visited square for snacks and dinner followed a disaster experience at one restaurant.

Nice place but disastrous experience


Next day after breakfast started our journey to the Atlas mountain. One of the amazing places to visit in Morocco. We can do hiking till top most points of Atlas mountains. It takes around 2 days and night of journey through some typical Berber villages. You can feel the strong Berber culture and cuisines on this happening route. We did not have time to go so deep inside so we decided to visit near by village and a water fall near by.

We climbed up to the fall. It was quite thrilling & fun experience with the team. Our guide Said is a big Bollywood fan, he kept everyone entertained through his songs and SRK poses. We exchanged and sang some of the Bollywood songs. Finally we traced back to Casablanca.

Michael and Hamid posing SRK

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