Monday, September 14, 2009

Hokay, so, I have many things to comment on, it was a very exciting weekend.

McDonald's Adventure
It's one of the only places serving food at lunch in Rabat. So firstly, the cashiers wear fezs (or whatever that plural is) with big M's on them, I unfortunately did not get a picture. But I did get a picture of the several interesting menu items.
The one most interesting to us was the McArabia, a meat patty with spices, pepper tomato sauce, in a pita bread.There was also Chicken Mystic....basically just a chicken sandwich.Overall, a great adventure.

Meknes:
It is one of the four imperial cities, inland of Rabat. We actually got to go into a mosque! That was cool. Also there's a golf course there...it was very strange to see bright green grass next to dirty medina. It is only 200 MAD to play ($25).

Volubilis:
Roman ruins. This place was pretty legit. Very much the same as the ruins in Turkey except for a few awesome differences. One, there were completely intacked mosaics.
This one was of Hercules' life (I know that apostrophe's gonna drive Brenna crazy). You can see the two snakes when he was a baby, Haites' three headed dog, and Pegasus. Thus, basically the rest of our tour was me thinking, so this is what it would be like to live in a Disney movie.
They had INDOOR HOTTUBS.And finally the "arrows" that pointed out brothels. Arrows are a stretch....

Fez
This is the coolest city we've been to by far. The medina (old city) is the biggest in the country and crazy confusing. There were single person wide streets, completely covered passageways, and a TON of people. Although, the coolest part was the tanneries.

They take off all that is not the skin in the white stuff (pidegeon excremint, because it is apparantly very acidic), then the different colors (all natural sources) are for dieing the leather (the yellow dye on the roof was made from saffron). It smelled terrible but was SO COOL.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

ughhhh, you drive me crazy!! that mosaic is pretty legit though

Katie said...

chelsea

computers have spell check, i promise

Jill Thaw said...

Hey, it's your turn to comment on other peoples' blogs

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