Alone is not boring in Morocco
Due to unforeseen circumstances, I went alone. I bought tickets Samara-Moscow-Kas $550, hotels for 10 nights in 5 different cities $200. Casablanca, Fes, Marrakesh, Agadir, Essaouira. After going through passport control, I change dollars for dinars, buy a ticket for the 40DH train to Casa Voyager, departure at 23.45. And after an hour and a half I am at the hotel. A connected phone with WI-FI I tell the family - I'm alive, healthy, tired, but I got there. In the morning I have breakfast on the terrace. Tryndets. . . Not a single woman in the hotel, not a single tourist. We'll have to get used to the society of local men. If you don't want too much attention from them, just dress modestly. I wore jeans and a skirt below the knee, T-shirts/T-shirts and sometimes threw a light scarf around my shoulders and arms. By the way, I didn’t buy any SIM cards, the Internet was free in all hotels / riads and at railway stations. If you have a smartphone, download the map and with gps you can walk without fear of getting lost. Even in medinas, all the small streets were on maps. I walked on Mohamed V Square and at the Hassan II Mosque, then I go to the station. Train to Fes 110DH 5h on the road. The schedule can be found on the onfc website. ma. On the trail. the day is already in Fez, the rest of the evening I rest, inspect the nearest streets of the medina, and in the morning I take a walk to the dye houses, I found two of them in the city. after I go to the mountain north of the old medina. Beautiful view of the whole city and the local cemetery. Transfer to Marrakesh 10h! It was hard for me, but it was worth it. Ticket 195DH. In the morning I go to the ruined palace of El Badi 10DH, then through Cyber Park to the Majorelle Garden 50DH. The distances are not small, but I like to walk. In the evening, stroll through Djemaa El Fna Square. The place is very atmospheric, a must to visit. My riad is two minutes from this square, and when I went out onto the terrace for the first time, I sat in almost complete darkness, soaking up the smells that hovered in the air. On the trail. day Menara garden, not very impressed, but you can see it once. Then I go to the medina. She is huge. . . after wandering for about five minutes, the streets changed from tourist to "residential". Here I felt uneasy, again crowds of local men, no women, no tourists. Bonfires in which they burn wool, the skins of dead animals in carts and very unpleasant odors. I tried to get back to the square as soon as possible. Then my path lay in Agadir. Bus ticket 110DH by Supratours. My hotel was absolutely touristic, without hints of local flavor, in general, I booked all hotels / riads the most modest. So there was a bathroom with a podium! the size of my whole room in Marrakech)) Having scattered all my few things, one backpack and a bag with a camera, weighing about 4 kg all together, I ran faster to the ocean. Seeing the ocean for the first time, you feel something completely indescribable, for me it was the most emotional moment of the whole vacation. And the only thing I regretted was that the person closest to me was not there, to share this moment with me. The rest of the evening and the whole next day I walked along the beach, sunbathed, swam, if jumping on the waves is considered swimming)) I bought an excursion to Legzira Beach 350DH. In the morning, barely having time to have breakfast, a minibus arrived for me, where there were 4 more tourists. on the way we stopped at the reservoir, a great view))) On the beach itself it was completely deserted, not counting the local dogs. Wander, take pictures, unrealistically beautiful, there is time. Track. listed city Essaouira 65DH ticket. The road there is one continuous serpentine, if you are seasick. The bus drove carefully, but very quickly, apparently in order to torment people less) By the way, I fell on this bus, and Supratours has only one flight a day to Essaouira at 9.00 in the morning. If something like this happens, the most helpful advice I can give is don't panic. There are plenty of other local bus companies, ask for tickets, there will definitely be a bus. The city has a beautiful medina, and there is a fortress, the city itself is small, but it seemed very cozy to me. Very wide beach when there are no tides. I spent the whole day and a half there. I will definitely come back here again. My vacation was coming to an end, in the morning I went to the STM station, in 5 hours I reached Casablanca, ticket 100DH. Many people wrote dissatisfied reviews that Supratours sells tickets to Casa through Marrakesh with a 9-hour transfer, and who is stopping you from buying another ticket, you ask, from another company? )) In Casa Voyager I take a ticket to the airport and rather home. This is where my adventure ended. Questions will be written : )
