Marrakech
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Blonds really do have a hard time there. I went there with a blond in 2001 and it was hell. Sheer hell.
If you're not used fending off street hawkers, which I wasn't, you will probably have a tumultuous time as you rapidly evolve the appropriate way to deal with them. In my first few days in Morrocco I went from smiling and thanking all the millions of people who approached me in the street to welcome me to their beautiful country, to losing it completely and shouting in rage, to transcending the madness and ignoring them (almost got me stabbed twice), to putting on a psycho face and out-psyching them before they even dared approach me.
They sell stuff. They all sell stuff. None stop bombardment, every single second of every single moment you are outside "HELLO MY FRIEND! WELCOME TO MORROCCO MY FRIEND! I AM MOHAMMED MY FRIEND WHAT IS YOUR NAME MY FRIEND? WHERE ARE YOU FROM MY FRIEND?"... Imagine every single person on Oxford Street on a Saturday afternoon approaching you with a smile and 'befriending' you like that. That's Morrocco.
They hate English people generally. They seem to really really like you until they realsie you are not going to buy whatever they're selling, then they drop the smiles and the bonhomie and threaten to kill you, or spit on you, or shout manically at you and flap their arms around violently, or call your companion a filthy whore for no apparent reason.
With a pretty blond at your side, its a million times more intense.
Also, if you think about getting a henna tattoo, agree the price and write it down on a piece of paper and hand it to them. Make sure they understand and agree that this is the price you will pay.
My companion wanted a henna tattoo, We agreed the price. I even showed them the agreed amount of money to be sure and held it in my hand throughout the process. Then she got the henna tattoo and the price was suddenly 100x higher. We got into a situation there and then and then tattoo making woman (a really hideous looking toothless old crone) started to stab us with her henna syringe. Not nice. We got chased out of Marrakesh by a crazy mob who just seemed to coagulate around us as the woman shreiked.
So have a great time!
Its visually incomprehensible and has to be seen, but I wont be going back there in a hurry.
- When I went to a shopping mall in Lombok (before anyone was going there) we had 50 people just following us...LOLJnr_Madison
- I thought we were going to get either stabbed or raped or both.Jnr_Madison
- nae luck though eh?
lolSkyPoo - Yeah, ruined the holiday. I wanted it up the bum.Jnr_Madison
- HAHAHAHA.SkyPoo