The rest of Morocco

Hi all!


Well I left us off after we got back from our super hokey night show.  So Sunday we woke up at around 8 and headed out at 9 to go get our picturesque view of Tangier.  We drove about 30 min outside the city and ended up seeing the Atlantic Ocean.  Throughout the ride there it was very pretty and eventually we got to a point where we got to get off the bus and take pictures.  Seeing as our tour guide wasn't very good, so when we saw the caves of Hercules he just said "here's some caves".  haha luckily I knew what I was looking for so I got to see the Caves of Hercules!  For those of you who don't know what that is, legend has it that Hercules slept there before he completed his 12 tasks.  So that's pretty cool that I saw something of legends.  The beach was also just plain gorgeous and I was so excited to see the Atlanice, I just kept thinking "on the other side is my home!!!"
So we hung around there for a while and I got to take in the view.  Every time I travel I get excited to see green grass, and the ocean, just because I see so little of it here in Granada.  So it was really nice to just take it all in and look at the ocean.  These beaches are also really popular in the summer time, our guide told us that they're all full of people, which I believe because they are gorgeous.

From there we got back on the bus and headed towards our CAMEL RIDE.  Yup, the thing that pretty much everyone was looking forward too.  We saw camels just chillin' on the side of the road on our way over there, we saw more beach, and some other animals as well.  When we finally arrived everyone was very excited and rushed over to the camels.  Well, I wasn't the first to go, merely because I'm not quite as cut throat about getting to places, haha.  But I hang around, watch people go and soak in the beautiful beach view, again. The camels were on the beach, so it was a very nice wait.

Besides the four camels that people could ride there were also about 4 camels that weren't doing any work and were just tied down for us to hang out with, pet, take pictures of/with.  Our tour guide had no fear and untied the baby camel, which was a very noisy baby camel and gave it to people to pet and hang on to.  The poor thing really hated us all.  haha but the others were much more docile and just didn't really care that we were there.  So between waiting around for our own individual camel ride we got to hang out with them.

Camels are smelly animals, let me tell you that.  Smelly and loud, the baby camel was always bleating, it was slightly annoying.  But it was really cool to see how the camels can like fold themselves up, their legs at least.  To watch them get up and down is really cool because they have so many joints in their legs.

Soooo I'm really sorry to everyone but I wanted to get this posted before I left.  I didn't get to finish it but you have the majority of the main things that happened.  I will elaborate and finish it when I return.  In the meantime, all the pictures are up on FB so you can go look at them to see the rest of my trip.  Basically the only other things that happened is that we went to a small fishing town where they paint a lot of the walls every august, so the paintings are beautiful.  Then we got time to hang out, get henna, buy gifts and what not.

THEN we went to the port and ended up waiting for 3 hours!! Because we were there during"special winds", like 80 mph winds and the boat couldn't leave because it was too dangerous.  We finally left at 11:30, when our original departure time was 5.  We got back to Granada at around 4 AM because of all the delays, it was certainly quite the trip. 

Love you all!!