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Morocco is an excellent time. North Africa in general is my favorite place to be.
Start in Tangier, take a ferry from Algeciras in southern Spain if you have time.
Tangier is an extension of Madrid or Barcelona in many ways. Best opium tea i ever had was there. you can buy it in the old market. look for the old fat ladies selling herbs...keep it on the down low. Tangier at sunset on hasisheeshay is a wonderful memory...
In the kasbah beware of cons... In general I would say its worth 2-5 bucks to hire 1 fly to keep 1000 off you...either that or be fluent french, spanish or arabic. i know the last. little of first two...keep a sharp instrument, not knife, close at hand at night in old medina...and be hard. softies get taken for more than a ride. not up to it? go in a tourist group. boring but safer.
liquor is sold by jews but dont get wasted in public. drink in restaurants or in your room.
hookers are usually in the sidestreet cafes and restaurants off the main boulevard...you will recognize them. for the most part, only chicks who will openly check you out.
Hang out in cafes, hike around Cap Spartel...take a taxi or bus down to Larache is cool as well...
Berbers towns along Med coast are fun but pretty wild. Be prepared for a lot of fighting. Hand to hand. Keeps you alert...its all for fun.
Some cool art galleries and what remains of the old literary scene can be ok. Most are dead or moved on. In tangier.
Going south, take a train... do the overnight sleeper or 2nd class, kill 2 birds with one stone - travel/sleep.
check roman ruins...mind blowing...volibulis, fez, around northern coast...
Marrakech is my favorite city. Next to Fes, next to Tangier, lol.
if you have time, test your guts and go up into the Middle Atlas. Women are amazingly beautiful...but berber dudes are hardcore badass. Got into a hotel fight once there, Started inside went outside...cops...aint no cops up there. lol.
Met a couple working girls who followed my partner and i from rabat, the capitol. Girls were trying to pose as journalists, no one bought it. Got ugly but lead, a few days later to an orgy up in the mountains...chicks look asian up there. saudis fly in all the time, drop 50k$ US and buy one or 3. they are really, really, beautiful. really.
These/berbers are the dudes who stopped romans dead in their tracks... and just about every other invader since.
Marrakech is where africa meets arab world meets mediterranean...
beautiful women, great food. Place to hang is djemaa el fna. Easy to get laid - tourists and locals...But dont act like a cock on the walk...they will knock you down with datura leaves or knives...worst is datura leaves...
ex-wife was from there. Met her at a "leila."
Feeling bold - go into the sahara...
I've taken trucks and land rovers into western sahara, mauritania, mali and east into chad and sudan...its a fun ride. my cover was counting sheep for CIA bt was actually recording music and dance for film and music companies. still my side gig.
plan on several months....key to morocco is stay in few places long time or go for a long time period. if you have only 1-2 weeks hit 3-4 towns max. otherwise, not as fun.
if you are cool, they will know it. if you are not, they will know it. you will meet many guys in the street never been to school a day in their lives but they fluently speak 8-10 languages...
Been to Siwa, place of cleopatra's well...thats at Libya/Egypt border. wait for that trip.
If you go now, they will think you are radio america/usis.
Japan is cool, have lived there...take money. You will need lots unless you slum it...and i would not...perhaps. ;)
DWB has Thai covered... I like Malay and Burma border areas too.
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