Morocco!  Part 1:  Where to begin?  With surprises.  It doesn't stink.  Apart from the smell of exhaust from unleaded gas or whatever they use, it is a pleasantly odoriferous place.  Marrakesh is strewn with trash, spare cats and filthy beggars but it smells like spices and flowers and incense.  It may be because the air is soooo dry.  Or because there is always a light breeze.  Or because there are so many good smells that overpower the bad.  It is definitely a feast for the senses.  The Medina, the old city center, is all color and sounds and scents.  In the very center of the center are the souks, the markets.  There are piles of spices, orange, yellow, red, brown and green.  Woven rugs and bags and clothing.  Metal works and ceramics of all colors.  Then all of the foods!  Mounds of dried fruit, nuts and honey based sweets.  Citrus fruits galore.  Meats (minus pork) hanging from hooks, grilling over open fires, stewing in Tajines.  If it weren't for the cleanliness factor I would have had a field day.  Alas, there is that cleanliness factor....

spices and herbs

dried fruit and nuts

dinner?

veggies

couldn't figure this one out

just dyed yarn for carpets

biggest frickin' lock ever seen