Wednesday afternoon we took the train to Marrakesh from Rabat. Marrakesh is quintessential Maroc... a crazy big Medina with winding streets, souks, food stalls, masses of people, and mad chaos in general.

Medina means the old town before colonization so the streets are narrow (sometimes very, like I have to stop and turn sideways when a motorbike comes through) and cobbled and the buildings are quaint and frequently crumbling. Souk means market. Our French is improving every day here, although with the Moroccans' aptitude for languages we would probably have survived on English and Spanish. We did take a tour of the Palais De la Bahia today which was a relief. We'd started with the French speaking tour but I heard spanish drifting over from another room and promptly pulled Cammie over to it.

Cammie's theme is cats... so she has a lot of pictures of cats and I'm ending up with a lot of pictures of Cammie playingwith cats.
The attention to detail in the palaces is amazing. This ceiling is carved cedar wood and full of intricate geometric patterns.

p.s. Maroc is amazing, internet is sometimes questionable. I'm trying to get photos posted but if not, I'm uploading them to facebook for safekeeping of some form so if you want more photos check there.

p.s.s. Some of my posts were pre-published while I was still in the states so the dry, informative posts are those and the rushed posts with pictures and poor grammar are published from the scene.

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