Every tourist tends to be mistaken. Other tourist routes are not popular only because the paid blogger wrote a critical review about them. Others are overestimated, and the number of positive responses about them multiplies only because tourists, subject to someone else's opinion, are afraid to be known as whiners and all disgruntled hypocrites, to whom whatever you give - everything is bad.
Perhaps one of these destinations is the western honor of North Africa, the Moroccan Kingdom. It would seem that there are full of beauty and rarities, the places are not devoid of exoticism, the services are at a high level, and there is no rebound from hotel offers. Nevertheless, we suggest to stop and treat the summer holidays here with caution.
Here's a golden nine of reasons why a trip to Morocco is not the best thought.
9. Excessive simplicity
You can go to this country at any time of the year - climatic conditions allow. Politics also favors: Russians can stay in the country without a tourist visa for three months in a row (then you need to leave and immediately return - the countdown will go from zero).
The flight from Moscow takes about six hours – not comparable to the Caribbean Sea, the Maldives or South Africa.
The summer sun in combination with the sea winds does not make the heat excessive even on days when the thermometer is thirty, and the winter days are still sunny and provide everyone with the temperature regime of the Moscow summer: from sixteen to twenty-four. In a word, it's commonplace.
8. Too much stuff
There is everything and a lot: sea and ocean waves and beaches, deserted wastelands and rocky mountains, several cinema towns and many fragments of the ancient empire centered in Fez.
In addition, there is no getting away from the mix of European and Eastern architectural traditions, ancient markets and new boutiques, national parks and museums bursting with antiquities, appetizing national cuisine, multiplied by the originality of culture.
We should not forget about thousands of kilometers of beaches – we started with them, but we must remind you again, suddenly who forgot. Such abundance is tedious and causes yawning as it becomes saturated.
7. Too seductive
Moroccan wine, which is praised by connoisseurs, the casinos of Tangier, Marrakech and Agadir, a huge amount of sweet (here even a pie with chicken is sprinkled with powdered sugar, and sugar in tea, it seems, is added immediately with sugar bowls) - temptations of various kinds await at every step. The only way to avoid them is not to come to Morocco.
6. Pull on sports
In Suwayra, you can imperceptibly turn into a surfer, because there are very suitable waves for this, and someone else's example is contagious. In Marrakech, a club asks for a hand: the area of golf courses in the city exceeds the territory built up with residential areas. In the Atlas Mountains, you will probably want to ski or snowboard - well, what kind of rest is it?
5. Ripple in the eyes
Accustomed to european measuredness and faded colors of the Central Russian hills of a person from the Moroccan reality ripples in the eyes, as when watching TV with no signal.
There are white cities like Tetouan, blue cities like Chefchaouen, red cities like Marrakech. All this on the sunny palette of deserts, bright inclusions of colors, the blue of ocean waves and a variety of shades of local ceramics, which, it is terrible to imagine, scientists and ethnographers distinguish more than two thousand varieties! And we have not yet touched on spices and paints on fabrics ...
4. Home will have to take the carpet
Among the traditional souvenirs from this country, in addition to the nosed crooked shoes in the style of "Aladdin", a bag-shaped robe and the notorious ceramic and copper embossed dishes, there is its carpet. This is branded, trendy, pop and very expensive on the fig not surrendered to you exotic.
And you have to take it. Very beautiful.
3. Pull wrap in algae
Alder wraps – called thalassotherapy – are among the traditional Moroccan chips. It's not cheap, but it's an attractive pleasure; you will not have time to blink with your eye, as you will put in everything acquired by overwork and postponed.
2. Desert will seem better than beaches
The inhabitants of the country will be able to tell so beautifully and excitingly about their boring life among the sands that tourists are immediately imbued with the desire to look at them with their own eyes.
And they disappear.
Not literally! They plunge into the fragility of dunes, colored by the rays of the pre-dawn sun, in communication with berbers, wild and non-talkative, in diamond placers of stars that seem especially close. Witchcraft is no different.
1. It will be impossible to return to the former life
Moroccan reality under the influence of magic has an amazing and irreversible effect on travelers. Even pragmatists prone to rationality risk being imbued with the balance of prices in local markets, the cost of tours and the delights of a holiday on the coast.
Romantics will never forget the narrow streets of Fez, the stench of leather and dyeing workshops combined with a variety of colors, the heap of Berber dwellings stuck in the jelly of time.
And the rest willy-nilly have to deal with the exotic culture of Africa and Middle Eastern traditions. One has only to contact - and you will remain a wanderer for life. Never come to Morocco!
