Morocco / Day 8

We had a little sleep in before heading back to town with a couple others. Our first stop was the Jardin Majorelle. Again another one of Marrakesh’s most visited sites. It took French painter Jacques Majorelle (1886-1962) forty years of passion and dedication to create the garden in the heart of the city. My favourite part was all the cactus! But there were also ponds with water lillies and lotus flowers and trees and other exotic plants.

It is probably more famous after Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Bergé purchased the garden in 1980 and saved it from being sold and replaced by a hotel. Read more about it here, its quite interesting!

We then walked from the garden back to the Medina and through the Souks. Monita and I left the others and went back to Nomad for lunch and managed to get a spot on the roof terrace, it made the meal even better!

A stand out moment was when we walked past this spice shop in the Souk. The owner didn’t pester us or ask us to come into his shop, he just sat out the front in peace. We had walked past and we both turned to each other and thought how cool of a photo the spices made. We went back and asked if we could take a photo and he was happy for me to do so, then I asked if I could take a photo of him, he said yes and didn’t even accept any coins (unlike anyone else in that area!)

We then headed to Bahia Palace walking through some questionable streets that were void of tourists, but eventually we made it there. It is a big old house and set of houses that were collected and converted into a palace in the late nineteenth century. It was very cool and detailed.

With our flight time looming closer we headed back to the hotel, hung out by the pool before saying final goodbyes to those who were flying out after us. It was sad to say goodbye but it was definitely this group of people that made our Moroccan experience so fun.