Amazingly, we had seen much of the Medina that first day. So this day became our shopping days. The souks can be a shopper's paradise. Hundreds of stalls in miles of streets that twist around in a labyrinth. Thhere are no prices; everything is done by bargaining. And it's hard to know what really is a good price. I suppose it's if you are happy with the price you pay then it's good. I can't imagine we were especially good at bargaining…
The biggest purchase we made was of some ceramic tagines and bowls. Some are glazed a partictularly energetic shade of dark red. We couldn't find a similar shade anywhere else in the medina; or rather that's what we told ourselves when we paid more than we planned!
For lunch, we ate at a terraced restaurant that had a nice view of the medina. I tried one thing I had wanted to in Marrakesh for a while -- a tride of pigeon. It waw basically a whole pigeon over a few layers of pasta-like crepes. I fear I wasn't very good at picking the meat off the bird.
Our one last tourist stop was the Saadian Tombs. They were equisitely decorated tombs from the 15th Century. But I think at this point we were saturated on sites. It didn't help that we had to wait 30m for a 5m view of the interior tombs.
We returned to our landmark cafe, Café Arabe, for a coffee and ran into the father and daughter, Chris and Rachel, again. The doorman there had been very helpful during our trip. Here I am with him. Apparently, he was an extra for Gladiator, The Mummy, and a few more movies.
We had a very rushed dinner at our riad before heading to our overnight train to Tangers. More later…
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