Morocco – fun facts part 3

1. Many German car dealerships along the freeways.

2. So far, we saw 1 Tesla (car, not a dealership).

3. Honking is the way to express your inner feelings.

4. Our driver for the whole trip, Abdul, does all the driving without a GPS. Of course.

5. Walking across the street teaches you to walk fast. Better run!

6. Big cruise ship outside our hotel. I wonder if it’s the ship my aunt Hannelore is on for her cruise around Africa?!?

7. Cork trees and banana trees are grown everywhere! It takes 25 years before cork can be harvested for the 1st time, after that, you only have to wait 9 years before the next harvest and so on…

8. Fruit stand along the freeway (we saw ~15 of them between Tangier and Chefchaouen, all with the same assortment

Morocco – fun facts part 2

1. Don’t drink tea out of a cup, tea needs to be drunk out by of a glass, mostly the size of a shot glass

2. Yoghurt is provided at every breakfast, but no spoons. 🧐 🥄

3. Freshly squeezed orange juice is a must!

4. Don’t eat with your left hand. The right hand is the clean, good one. The left hand is the dirty one. Hint: they don’t have toilet paper at public bathrooms. Not even toilet paper holders or anything…

5. In mens public bathrooms the way to go is using the hole in the floor

6. Instead of salt & pepper, you get salt & cumin.

7. Tea is sweetened if you don’t order otherwise.

8. Pancakes are crepes that are folded square.

9. Moroccans have a sweet tooth. At every market you see those machines where they feed in sugarcane and sell the juice. Very popular!

10. Cell phone towers are the size and shape of palm trees.

11. We finally found a bookstore!

12. … and a plumber!