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by Rebecca and Rachael Xoxo
On our third day in Morocco, we woke up early in the morning and set out to see the sights of Rabat. We first traveled to the Hassan Tower Mosque where we saw the ruins of the original mosque from the twelfth century as well as the tombs of the father and uncle of the current King, Mohamed VI. After visiting the tombs of the Kings family, we visited the Palace of Rabat where the King handles Morocco's political matters. We were not allowed to enter into the palace, although we were allowed to take pictures of the many guards, which stood at all entrances. They had Huge guns! Finally after a few photo stops, we headed to Oudaïa, a walled in city near the ocean. Its architecture resembles that of the Greek Island of Santorini style. Within the first five minutes of being there, a woman forcibly attacked our hands with Henna and then charged us from zero to a hundred Dirhams for each piece of “art work”. We took a nice stroll along the coast line, capturing moments, almost adopting abandoned cats along the way and taking every moment with our happy snappys. We retreated to the bus and headed for lunch were we quickly finished and headed to the candy store outside.
On our third day in Morocco, we woke up early in the morning and set out to see the sights of Rabat. We first traveled to the Hassan Tower Mosque where we saw the ruins of the original mosque from the twelfth century as well as the tombs of the father and uncle of the current King, Mohamed VI. After visiting the tombs of the Kings family, we visited the Palace of Rabat where the King handles Morocco's political matters. We were not allowed to enter into the palace, although we were allowed to take pictures of the many guards, which stood at all entrances. They had Huge guns! Finally after a few photo stops, we headed to Oudaïa, a walled in city near the ocean. Its architecture resembles that of the Greek Island of Santorini style. Within the first five minutes of being there, a woman forcibly attacked our hands with Henna and then charged us from zero to a hundred Dirhams for each piece of “art work”. We took a nice stroll along the coast line, capturing moments, almost adopting abandoned cats along the way and taking every moment with our happy snappys. We retreated to the bus and headed for lunch were we quickly finished and headed to the candy store outside.
The bus was loaded with teenagers filling their faces with candy, chocolate surprise eggs to be exact. We also bought a lot of treats for the kids, which we headed off to see. On arrival to the school, we were greeted by our newly found friends from the circus school and we began handing out the pictures we spent all night printing to the mob which surrounded us. We then spent the rest of the evening playing games with the kids and singing songs all together. We had several national anthems that were sung, including the Taiwanese, Korean, American and Moroccan Anthems. We watched the kids perform their circus tricks and married off several of our own to their lovely circus performers. (Don’t worry it’s only a small child’s game.) After fun and games we presented them with a slide show that we had taken of them that day, as well as the day before. This brought laughter throughout the whole room and brought us closer together as we laughed and joked with one another. Being that it was getting late we said our goodbyes and let the children return to their homes, as well as our need for belly filling of food. None of us want to say goodbye, and can’t wait to see them for the last time tomorrow!
