Date: 28 April 2009
Woke up in the morning......
Had breakfast on the rooftop.
and off I went exploring this Unesco old town!!
Either staying too long in nice and easy Europe had made me lost my ability to navigate or this place is simply too difficult to find the right direction!! I had not face much problem in finding my way across china, no problems in wondering around Kazakhstan and Krygyzstan but when it comes to the streets of Marrakech central medina, I am lost. It doesn't help even if i have a map. I dont know where I am going. It is a spiderweb of lanes... It is a maze!!!!
There are help ofcourse. And these help came without me needing to find it. Everytime I pulled out a map looking for something, and even before I can open my mouth to ask, tons of people flocked to me asking where I wanna go. They even lead me to my destination. Thats good yeah? HAHA!!! NO!!!! everything seems good until they start asking u for money. Everyone will bug u till u feel very irritated. To the extend that I did gave this guy some money because he was pestering me for a long time but it was not as much as he wants So he scolded me " You no good!!" What the hell!!! I give him money and he still scold me.....
So like I said... be prepared for lots of harassement... lots of "hello sir"... and be prepared to get lost.....
But getting lost isnt a bad thing afterall. In the process I discover lots of charming parts of the town. Friendly Morrocans who are not after your money do exist too. I shall not let the bad experience spoilt my day.
Other than getting lost most of the time, I went to the Ali Ben Youssef Medersa, the Ali Ben Youssef Museum, Koubba Ba Adiyn, I saw some Fondouqs, the Mouassine Fountain, some mosques, etc etc....
Lunch...Dont even know what I ordered... and when the food came, I also dont know what is it mixed with. Taste ok....
Me with a local head dress for the desert.
As I wondered around the spiderweb lanes, I chanced upon the houses of the local...
Back on the main streets... Can you find me?
The weather here in Africa is so hot that even this donkey cant take it. I reckon that it was kept standing here for hours!!! Poor thing...
Some Fondouqs......
Back on the streets again...
Then it was back on the Djemma El-Fna to see the interesting snake charmers, potion sellers, story tellers, acrobats, musicians, fortune-tellers and dancers....
I then went back to my "hotel" to take a rest.
Saw this in a book!!! SO interesting!!! GIANT PENIS!!!!! haha.. Must see it for myself someday in Japan...
Had Tajine for dinner and once again was amazed by the night scene at Djemma El-Fna.
OH ya... I get lots of " Japan?" "china?" "Korea?" on the streets. When I tell then singapore they will go "SINGAPORE??? hmm.... in china?" Hahaha.. They never seems to know where singapore is. but I had a new name today... Some funny... Other than all these countries name who they refered me to, people started calling me Jackie Chan!!!! *Faint*
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