[遊記] 071226 Siti Fatma Waterfalls Moroccan's home in Medina

Adventure in Morocco with three ladies


Honestly, travelling with three girls is really a different experience for me. Usually Taiwanese friends will definitely ask me if I have some affairs with any one of them while foreign friends will ask me how come I could stand for so many nights before saying "shame on me!" I am neither a gay nor a malfunction man, I just wanna see what's happening in Morocco with my female travel experts, that is all.




Hiking and being guests in Moroccan's home


In Marrakesh we went hiking among red rocks and mountains with snow on top. Firstly we ate traditional Moroccan food "Tajine" (The bose took amazingly one hour to finish I guess) as our lunch. On the way to the waterfall we enjoyed the spetacular views while taking funny pictures. Most funny of all is that we asked our Moroccan guide, who volunteered to be before asking for a tip for sure, to have Martial Art style post with us. He seemed to enjoy it. Yvonne always has the charming power to be invited as guests in Moroccan's home. So later in the evening we luckily had the chance to a house deep inside Medina (Old city center usually with markets and Mosques) in Marrakesh. I bet very few foreigners have the chance to see what's going on there. We took chances to ask these Moroccans where to buy some souvenirs and how they put on scarfs, ladies like this. However, I am interested in the communication situation because we talk with each other via a translation loop like "Chinese-English-French-Arabic". So sometimes two people actually need the other two translators to talk to each other. They also shared with us their Moroccan style snacks and mint tea. Dancing with them is also very interesting. I wrote a postcard with Chinese signature to Hamza after I learned that he has a cousin studying for Doctor degree of Chinese in Beijing. His cousin also works as an agent for their family firm, which is a window maker importing Aluminum from China, just three km away from the Spanish territory Ceuta in very north Morocco.

[遊記] 071227 Desert trip to Sahara

I did a desert trip two years ago in Tunisia but this time was a totally different experience. Firstly I travelled with a multinational team in which Mandarin, Polish, English, German, Dutch, Abrabic are spoken as our mother tongues. Also many of us can speak other languages so totally more than 10 languages can be recognized by this group. I also met "surprising" Mr. B since his Ethnic backgourds are the most complicated I have ever seen. His father is African-Japanese and his mother is French-Indonesian. He and his siblings have so mixed bloods that each of them gave his/her parents a surprise because his brother looks like an African, his sister looks like a Japanese and he looks like an Indonesian with an African nose.


Secondly, we argued quite a lot on different issues on the bus to the destination since everyone works as different job positions like an artist, a boss, a truck driver, a consultant, an engineer, sales, etc. in different cities like New York, Zurich, Antwerpen, Taipei and Hsinchu. I also found it is really challenging to me to address my point in a structural way on many topics. I feel Taiwanese are not educated to have one's own point so much.


Thirdly, I managed to stay over night beside huge sand dunes with guides playing Moroccan drums for us this time. It is hard to believe the mountains are actually sand when we had a first glance at them far away. We were exhausted when trying to climb up to the top because sand just sunk each step and we just couldn't move upward.