MOROCCO!!!!!

hola,

this weekend was certainly a crazy, fun, exciting weekend for me. four of my girlfriends and i met up at the barajas airport on friday morning and flew to tangier for the weekend. it was so incredible there!

the weather was nice all weekend.. it was hot out, but not unbearably so. friday we walked all around the town, stopping at both tents and little side vendors, buying souvenirs and taking in all of the moroccan culture that the city had to offer us. it was truly incredible interacting with the people there. if you showed any sort of interest in something in their shop, they would bargain with you until it was nearly impossible to say no! it was a good way to get things for cheaper, but sometimes i just wanted to look at something without being bombarded. but that is their culture, and it was certainly very interesting to see how they reacted to foreigners.

saturday, we woke up early and walked in town to get breakfast before starting our day. morocco is two hours behind madrid, so it wasn't hard waking up because it felt later than it actually was. the hotel we stayed at hooked us up with an awesome taxi tour, so we split the 60 euro taxi five ways and settled into the car. our driver took us all around tangier, the outskirts, and into another town not too far away. we also went to the caves of hercules, which was incredibly interesting. once we got back, we went to a little restaurant with genuine moroccan food.. best couscous i have had in my whole life! then we went down to the beach for awhile and hung out, and eventually made our way back to the hotel and stayed in for the night.

on sunday we got up early and had breakfast at the hotel. we checked out and decided to spend a little while on the beach until we headed back to the airport. my friend ana and i had really wanted to ride a camel all weekend, and we saw some on the beach. so we walked down and found them, and we got to ride them back to the rest of our friends. it was so fun! they are very tall though, so it was a little scary for me, too. but overall i loved it and i am so glad ana convinced me to do it. then we went back to the airport and hung around until our flight.

overall, it was a fantastic trip. i learned a lot and saw a ton, and definitely want to do more research on morocco and find out more about its' ways and customs. it was a very interesting weekend and i had so much fun. i am already excited to do more traveling!

hope you enjoy the pictures!!!





sunset in tangier.. so beautiful!


i'm not sure if i was allowed to take this.. but there were tons of people praying in there.


a little bit of the city.


a section of side vendors! this is where we did a bit of shopping.


view from our hotel.. so insane!!



sunset on the beach over the hotel part of the city.


the view frm inside the hercules caves.. they told us that it looks like africa, which it kind of does!


view of the mediterranean sea.