Since we thought the Insead graduation trip was a bit expensive for what it was (and we weren't the only ones with this opinion) me & Alice decided to take our guys to Marrakesh for a few days.
What did we learn from this experience: never believe an airline that says "any identification - as long as it has a photograph" is sufficient ... the result was pretty disappointing: we had to leave Alice and Jon behind in Charles de Gaulle :-(
After a delay of about 2 hours we arrived in Marrakesh in Riad La Maison Rouge. It was this small riad with fifteen rooms, all very cosy. You couldn't lock any of the doors there and if you were thirsty (which happened a lot in temperatures of 48°C) you could just take anything from the fridge and write it down on a piece of paper.
The day after we arrived we explored Marrakesh. Everything was walking distance from the hotel that was in the old part of town, but in this heat we decided to take a day ticket on this open-roof tourist bus.
I was really surprised: I never expected that Marrakesh would still be thàt poor. After visiting Asia we thought we would not easily be surprised anymore by poverty etc ... but here we were ... people still transporting food by mule and carriage and the cars and the taxis there were even worse than the ones we saw in Thailand or Cambodia.
We visited the main must-sees of Marrakesh like the El Bahia Palace, Jardin Majorelle, Koutoubia Mosque, Djemaa el-Fna-square, etc.
The food was also great ... we had this great discovery meal on this rooftop terrace ... they just kept on bringing the little tajines pots for hours :-)
The last day we were all sweated out in the burning sun and awful heat and we decided to spend our last hours by the tiny little rooftop pool.
We had a good flight back and when we arrived back in Charles de Gaulle at around midnight they noticed that all the staff in charge of passport control had already left ... so of course they decided to make us wait until they came back.
The trip started bad with Jon and Alice who couldn't join us and ended funny in Charles de Gaulle without the right staff to let us out of the airport building ... but in between Marrakesh was really beautiful and worth visiting.
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