Ouarzazate - Marrakech, Day 1

Drove through the High Atlas Mountains to Marrakesh. The mountains are rocky and pretty much bare as the trees have been cut down (for firewood, building, etc.) And there isn't much rain even before the current drought. The valleys are plush, well irrigated farms.

Once at Marrakesh, went to our Riad for lunch and got settled in our rooms. Then an introductory walking tour that took us through some market streets to the extremely ornate, 19th century Bahia Palace. Dinner was a variety of delicious street food in the Djemaa al Fna (the giant square that is full of everything from foodstalls of every kind to people selling everything to people who want to hang a snake around your neck and charge you for it.

Sensory overload! 

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