Trip to Dahkla

    To get to Dakhla, the group took a plane from Casablanca. To get to Casablanca, I took a bus and then a train to the airport. My friend Leo, who has actually planned and booked hotels for most of the place I have been, gave me some rough directions to how to get to the train station from the bus station. The directions were completely wrong, and after a while, of following them, I decided to start asking random people where the train station was. When I arrived at the station, I phoned Leo, and he was happy that I found my way because he realized he gave me the wrong directions. Leo is very nice, and he would have felt bad if I did not get to the train station.

   At the airport, there was trouble with some of our bookings. We had to wait for an extra half hour-ish before we got our tickets.

   We then got on the plane to Dakhla. When we arrived, we checked into the hotel and got settled. Then most people went to sleep to get ready for the next day.

  On the second day, we took a bunch of SUVs to a place located quite a ways from the hotel. It was a beautiful beach. It was part of a lagoon so the water was very calm and it did not get very deep fast. It was a very nice place to go swimming. Some people went over to a big white dune. Myself and others did not get to see it close up because we spent too much time swimming. I was fine with that because I really like swimming. Some of us got a water massage from hot spring water. The massage was fun. Everyone then went to get some stuff to eat. The was fish, oysters, and other seafood. My roommate for the trip, Caleb, got a really bad sunburn that day.

   The next day we did lots of interesting stuff. We got a fish pedicure. A fish pedicure is when you stick your feet in a pond and fish nibble at them to get the crap off your feet. We had to go to the middle of the desert get this. Our drivers made us southern tea to try before we left to the next activity. The tea was much more to my liking than the tea made in the north, because it was a lot stronger tasting. 

   The next activity was the ostrich farm. The was a bunch of ostriches, and they would bite fingers when fingers were close enough. It felt really weird when they bit them. The mouth would scrape against the finger as they tried to swallow it. I thought it felt really cool. 

   We also went to a different beach. This beach was a lot more volatile, and it was windy that day. I went swimming for a bit, but most people did not. For lunch, we went to this subpar place to eat. I ordered a pizza that had almost no cheese, and it took forever to come out. I would not recommend it (the restaurant). 

  Caleb left the following morning to go to London.

  We spent the last day at a nice resort relaxing. There was some swimming. The tide had to come in before to go swimming. It took about two hours for it to come in and then it was good for swimming. I went swimming with a couple of people (Mika and Katherin). Katherin has been to Brasil too, so I got to talk to her about that.

The next morning we left to go back to Casablanca.

    I went to Ifrane and had supper with Leo and Thomas. Thomas is a French guy who has been on most trips with me. They had been on the university campus while I was at Dahkla. I spent the second part of my break with them and others in Tangier. My next post will be about Tangier.