Our guide recommended a sidecar tour of Marrakech so we could see some areas outside of the old city.

The tour didn’t disappoint and I was excited to hear that we would be going to a park of palm trees. Palmeraie is a palm oasis of several hundred thousand trees which was man made hundreds of years ago. The area is now protected and nobody can build there. It felt more like a very hot desert and sand to me but was nice to get out of the city. The area around the park has very nice houses that are owned by very famous international celebrities. We also saw some of the new part of Marrakech. And at the end, the guide drove us back through the old town. We saw flea markets where you can literally find anything to buy, through a leather making district (I learned they make leather using pigeon poop) and then ended with a smoothie.