Morocco!

Hola a todos,

This weekend I went on a trip with a bunch of people from Tech and some Europeans that we met along the way to Morocco. We left on friday afternoon and drove down the coast and took a 35 minute ferry across to Morocco. It was crazy to think that I can wake up in Europe in be in Africa before dinner! On Saturday we went to to Tetuan and took a tour of the old part of the city built before the north part of the country became a Spanish colony. The streets were tiny and lined with shops and vendors in the street (sometimes just an old woman selling vegetables on a mat). You could also buy live chickens to take home a cook up for dinner, that was a bit of a culture shock seeing people carry them off by their legs. We also went to a spice shop and tried out a few herbal remedies. I was a little sceptical but the one to clear your sinuses worked pretty well so I went ahead and splurged the 50 dirhams (5 euros) for it. Then we had lunch at a restaraunt that was really good but had a lot of dancers and to me that's just kind of awkward, maybe I'm just boring though. After lunch we drove to the coast and saw where the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea meet. The best part of the afternoon though was the camel ride on the beach. On Sunday we drove to a small town called Chefchaouen. It's famous for having lots of buildings painted blue and it's views of the coast. Unfortunately it poured the day we were there. However we did get to eat in a really good restaraunt so it wasn't entirely a lost cause. After that we had a pretty long drive back to the port. I got back to Sevilla at 11 and was in bed not long after.