Trip to Rabat

    The first thing that happened when the group got to Rabat was that we went into the medina to find our hotel. Finding the hotel was harder than we anticipated, and we ended up walking around the medina for about an hour. It was nice to see a lot of the main part of the medina during this hour, but it might have been funner if I did not have my bag still with me. A member of the group who speaks French eventually started asking people for directions, and we finally found our hotel. After we had been settled two people stayed to wait for the other two people to arrive (they took a bus separately from us), and the rest of us walked around the medina more.

    The medina is an excellent place to walk around. There are many different shops all selling interesting items. There is more stuff to choose from in the medina than there is in regular stores in cities. The feel of the medina is great, and that makes it an awesome place to walk around. The medina was definitely one of the highlights of the trip.

    When the rest of the crew arrived, we all went out for dinner. After supper, we went to see the ocean. The ocean was great to watch as it had the waves crashing on the jagged coast spraying water everywhere, but it was hard to see at night when we first saw it. The next another of the group and I went to watch the waves during the daylight. It was a lot better seeing them in the day.

    We also went to the place were one of the former Kings are resting. It was cool, and there were beautiful views of the city. There is also a guy who reads from the Quran all day, but I did not get to see that.

    We explored different sites around the coast for the rest of the day and then walked around the medina some more. For supper, we ended up eating at an Italian restaurant, and it was good.

   The next day we saw a couple of protests but did not participate. Then we went to the Royal Palace and walked around its courtyard area. All we had to do to enter the Royal Palace was hand the guard our passports, and then we got to walk around. We could not get too close to the actual palace because the guard stopped us. There was almost no one there, so it was nice to explore in peace.

   Then everyone went to some mall for lunch, and the main group left. Then one other person and I left on the train to Fes. When we got to Fes, we took a grand taxi back to the university, and we got ripped off. We paid waaaaay to much for that grand taxi.

    That was the trip to Rabat!!!