The first one was Imourzzar, where we entered a traditional Berber Family Home, which was in a cave. We were welcomed in by a warm old lady offering us green mint tea and biscuits.
In her home, it was decorated by their traditional weaving, carpets, Moroccan crafts, paintings and portraits of family and the Prince of Morocco (they loved their Prince!).
Samir shows us the art of pouring green tea into the small cups...
The second place we went to was Gite De Moyntane. We were in the van and was welcomed by local kids with their donkeys. We stopped for some photo taking and headed to the lake. We rented out 2 paddle boats, Jainnie, Samir & I in one and Tine, Tim, Vi in the other. We got to competitive racing each other out far. Man it was a work out! Samir was sitting relaxing! Boo!...
We gave some change to the kids when we left. There was the cutest baby donkey!!!
Third place was Swiss Morocco (Ifrane), where we posted our postcards and had lunch at La Rose.
We were starving! We knew that we would be satisfied here at La Rose where Samir had recommended.
The Menu!....
Dessert!!!...
We headed off to the next town... stopped by the road to take some pictures for the view.
The fourth place we went to was The Cedar Forest. We were there to feed peanuts to the Berber Macqaw (Monkeys!)... We headed up the hill on foot. Hearing the movement in the distance and noises freaked us out!
Tine and Jainnie were scared to feed them. The little ones were more gentle in getting the peanuts off your hand, but the older ones, you could feel their nails while they quickly grabed as much as they could. They were pretty smart.
They'd even pull your pants, and your pockets!! And I was wearing harem pants, thinking they'd pull them down due to their strength! lol.
I got freaked out once a group would go up to you scavenging for nuts! I freaked and chucked the nuts and it accidentally hit the baby on in the head. It made a hollow noise! Everyone said how mean I was for doing that - but they all laughed it off!
Samir was being a smart-a** grabbing the bottom of our leg pretending a monkey was harassing you! Tine and I screamed!!!
Last fifth town was Azrou.
The view would have been awesome here, but I was too scared to climb it. The rocks were getting tricky and my knee wasn't up to it. Tim and Vi were up for the challenge with Samir, who didn't have a problem jumping for one end to the other. The boys couldn't keep up! It was funny how Tim was explaining how Samir jumped to the other side where the crown was. Tim freaked out with the length he had leaped over. And this guys was wearing a suit and dressy shoes!!!
Sammy-Blue-Eyes!! Man, this photo does not do his real eye colour any justice... :(
It was a long day, sleeping in the van on the way back home. We chilled up on the roof, ate our snacks, sweets and nuts. It was a beautiful evening in Morocco. I ended the evening reading my book in the room.
Good night Morocco!!
