We just got back from the hammam which was an excellent way to end our time here in Marrakech. It's an interesting experience - we went to a typical hammam, not a luxe spa, though we did have attendants from our riad with us. Given how covered up Moroccan ladies are when they're outside, it was surprising to see how loose they were in the hammam.
You're in a steamy room, and first you get covered in this savon noire, which smells kind of like oil, and looks a bit like mud. After getting rinsed off with buckets of hot water, you get exfoliated with a rough mitten, which honestly took off the entire top layer of my skin, after which you rinse and wash your hair. Currently I feel all soft and shiny, though immediately after I was a bit light headed from being in he steamy room for so long. I downed something like a litre of water when we got back to our riad.
Plans for the evening are to have dinner back in the riad, where we are going to learn about making tajines. We've had them so often here, that I'm honesty a bit tired of them, but I think I'll miss them when I'm gone. Though, there's some spice in them that I don't quite like - maybe too much cinnamon? Hopefully I'll figure out what it is tonight, so if I do it myself I can avoid it.
Later tonight we might head out to meet some friends for drinks at a restaurant. Shopping this morning, we happened to run in to these three Malaysian girls that we met in the desert. They sat beside us by the fire, and then were part of the same caravan back to the hotel for showers and breakfast after playing in the sand dunes over sunrise. Of all the souks in Marrakech, running into possibly the only three people in Morocco that we know is pretty incredible.
After that the only plan is to pack all our things and head to bed early, since we have a ridiculously early departure tomorrow morning to get to Casablanca and catch our flight.
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