Finally made it to my first African country. We arrived in Casablanca, Morocco last night and the driver drove us 3 hours to Marrakech. This makes for an extremely long travel day but it was worth it. The trip will be split up between Morocco and Portugal. The Morocco part was designed by a tour guide and I’m excited to see everything she has planned for us.

On the flight in, we saw a lot of farmland. Casablanca is the largest city in Morocco with over 6 million residents. We have a driver that will take us an around for the next week. He picked us up and drove us to Marrakech. It was a pretty drive without a lot of traffic. I saw many farmers working in the fields which mostly had sheep.

The first place we are staying is at Riad in Marrakech. The Riad is in the old city and is beautiful. Riads always have a fountain in the middle and that is surrounded by four sides with rooms. The middle is also open to the outside. Since the driver couldn’t drive the narrow alleyways of the old city, someone from the hotel luckily met our driver to walk our luggage to the riad and show us the way. We would have never found it on our own. And you learn very quickly to make sure you always stay on the right side of the streets here. Motorcycles and bikes go very fast down the alleyways and they don’t really care if they might hit you.