Marrakech, Morocco

This morning we woke up at 6:00 am and walked to the front of the port. Usually buses take us because it's about a 30 min walk but it was too early so we walked. We took a taxi from the front of the port to the train station only to find out that our train left at 8:50 not 8:00. We decided to walk around and look for some food. We never really found any but we saw the call to prayer and that was pretty cool. When we got back to the train station we found out our train was delayed an hour. There were tons of SAS (Semester at Sea) kids at the train station so we kind of just talked to everyone. When the train finally showed up we didn't get seats because there were so many people. We eventually got seats about an hour into the train ride. We arrived in Marrakech about 4 hours later. We checked in to the hostel which was really nice! It looked so authentic and the people were very friendly! When we walked in they made us sit down and served us some delicious mint tea. After getting settled in we went to the marked and shopped for most of the evening. Our group split up and I went with Alyssa and Leah to eat. We had an amazing dinner on a rooftop overlooking the market. I had lemon chicken and it was very good! The next day we woke up and had breakfast at the hostel. Our breakfast was hand made and included several different kinds of bread and crepes. The crepes were a lot thicker than other crepes I've had but they were still good. Then we checked out and went to the gardens. We walked around the gardens for a while and then met up with Kathryn, Jared, and Sarah at the train station. I stayed with them that night because my group was going back to Casablanca. We went back to the market that night and we spent most of our time there. I had a lot of fun in Marrakech and I enjoyed it so much more than I was expecting. In our pre-port meetings I was thinking that I wouldn't like Morocco but it turns out that I loved it! The last day in Marrakech we found camels to ride! We were so excited! We only rode them for half an hour but that was plenty for us. My camel wasn't too happy though and he kept trying to get free. We were all really excited because a lot of our friends went on camel treks in the desert and we wanted to go but it worked out because we still got to ride them.