Asilah

Our second day in Morocco we woke up early to head to Asilah, a smaller town also along the coast, but further south of Tangier. Since it is so small, we didn't actually have a group tour, and were just free to wander around town. At first we walked around as a big group, and found the area where most of the shops were. We all ended up buying cheap shoes there - they have tons of shops in Morocco where they sell rip offs of brand name shoes like Pumas, Adidas, Nike, etc. And one of the Spanish guys with us talked the shopkeeper into giving us a group discount, so they were only 13 Euros per pair!

Afterwards we walked over to the market, where they were selling tons of fruit, spices, and even live chickens! Another Moroccan specialty is their olives. You find stands of them everywhere in the markets, and they have all different kinds of olives, some in different spices as well. We kept wandering and by the end of the day we had seen most of Asilah. All in all it was a pretty unexciting but interesting day.


That night we had dinner in our hotel in what seemed to be a more typical Moroccan setting. Since Moroccans, and Muslims in general are forbidden to drink alcohol, it can be pretty hard to come by there. You can't buy it at most restaurants and bars, only in some supermarkets and bigger shops. That wasn't a problem for us however, since some of the people in the group had though ahead and brought their own drinks, so we stayed downstairs for awhile hanging out with the group.