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World Cup

We passed the stadium where the World Cup was held.
Leaving Marrakesh
Back on the bus

A 4-hour ride back to the ship.
Abdul

He was nice. He didn't speak much English.
Sales

The problem with standing still to wait for the bus is, anyone who was selling anything came by: art, people tried to put necklace…
Back early

Most people came back before the 40 minutes were up. The bus wasn't there so we waited by the wall. That's our tour guide Najit in…
Unhappy monkey

The monkeys didn't seem very happy. They were on chains and I felt sorry for the one in the dress.
Monkeys

We made it around to the corner with the monkeys. There was even a monkey in a pink dress.
More snakes

We took a secret picture of some different guys with snakes so they wouldn't charge us. These guys had a drum and I think a snake…
Food stall

Steam and probably smoke coming from a food stall. They started cooking for the night.
Fruit and nuts

There were a lot of orange juice stands all around the square. The nuts looked good but we didn't buy anything. We just walked aro…
Locals and tourists

This is the main square of Marrakesh. It's used both by locals and tourists.
Souk El Jadid

A "souk" is an open-air market or bazaar. Each souk sells different wares such as spices, leather goods, etc. This souk sells trad…
Argana Restaurant

On the second story in 2011 there was a bombing at the Argana cafe. It's all fixed now and it's the Argana Restaurant. I didn't fe…
Night time

As it gets darker the snake charmers and monkeys move out in favor of dancing boys, magicians, more story tellers and food tents.…
Happy!

I'm very happy that I got my cobra photo!
Awesome!

I just loved the snakes!
Snake Charmer

We got a lot of photos of the snake charmer. I was hoping he would be on the ground with the cobra, like in the movies, but he put…
Cobra

I really wanted a photo of the snake charmer with a cobra. We settled on $2 and he immediately tried to put the cobra on Bill's sh…
Baby snakes

As soon as we walked up he put two small snakes around my neck. They were just babies.
Snakes!

The main thing I wanted to see...a snake charmer!