After trying to explain the more serious side of my trip to Morocco, I will now tell you a little more about the more light-hearted side. As I stated in my other post, we spent a LOT of time in a bus or on a boat. Driving through the mountains was absolutely gorgeous, but sometimes terrifying. There were times when I thought our big coach bus would fall right off the side of the cliff it was driving on.
The hotel we stayed in was a four star hotel, and it was actually very nice. We got to have Moroccan-style buffet a few times, so it was fun to try the different foods. On Saturday night after spending the whole day in Medina, Kayla and I went with some other girls out to dinner. At the restaurant, the very friendly owner, named Abdul (all of the men that I met in Morocco were either named Muhammad or Abdul!), was very helpful and made our evening quite enjoyable. It was really fun to be able to talk to a Moroccan man and learn a little bit about his life in Fez.
On Sunday, the highlight of my day was my ride on a camel. When I heard there was a camel ride included in this trip, I got super excited about it and could not wait to have that experience. I was imagining a one or two hour ride on a camel into the sunset in the Moroccan desert…
Well, that didn’t exactly happen. When it came time for our camel ride, our bus pulled over to the side of a highway and met up with a man standing in the middle of a field with two sad-looking camels. We all lined up, and then two by two we took our turns riding the camels for approximately two minutes. Basically, we got on the camels, they got pulled around in a circle by the Moroccan man, and then we got off. Haha… not what I had originally pictured. It was still pretty fun and now I can proudly say that I have ridden a camel!
Bjork and I laughed out loud about your camel experience. :)
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