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salamualikum' and welcome to this new mini budget tear series here in Morocco in the next three episodes me and Damon here we're gonna try and show you as many cool sides of Morocco as possible we are gonna prove that you can travel Morocco on the cheap budget ear style and help you discover all variety of things this Islamic country has to offer from experiencing Moroccan life in the ancient cities trying out the public transport leading the local people tracking the highest summit in the Atlas Mountains and exploring the coast of the Atlantic Ocean so be sure to check out this miniseries of the budgeteers before we start a big thank you to audible for sponsoring this series go to audible.com
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the three of us a really big thank you we love reading your comments and hearing your travel stories that's why we want to create even more travel series in the future that's the reason why I'm making this surprise miniseries in our first African country Morocco and yes Marathas maybe not that well-known as everyone all I know is that it's an Islamic country in the north of Africa in between Western Europe and one of the biggest deserts in the world the Sahara I have no idea what travel America is really like so I'm actually quite nervous and excited when I'm heading to the airport
hello guys and welcome to a new budget tear series a miniseries because petting aleena aren't on here they're working Lina's in Colombia and pedis working back in Thailand and I'm doing a trip by myself but not really alone I'm bringing someone new I'm bringing a subscriber me I meet Damien he's also from Belgium but that's all our I'm gonna tell you guys for now you'll meet him later right now we're gonna board our flights to Fez to Morocco see you there all right we made it to Morocco it is now three or four hours later on a ryanair flight so that wasn't very fun plus we made it cheap Thai see his first time in Africa yeah he has been here before so that means he can guide me a
little bit around I hope last time I was here in low season so everything was wait now it's heist high season so it's gonna be a little bit more difficult to you know watch all the street vendors and stuff so prepare yourself we have checked out we've got our baggage our backpacks and we've got some money out the exchange rate is pretty simple it is 10 didim which is the local currency 10 didim for 1 euro or one dollar almost which is really easy to count but now we're gonna find our driver we found the driver we thought my name is Alberto Ramos I know I look Spanish but and multi-family Salam alikoum
hello good morning guys Salam alaikum whoo excuse us for being tired but we arrived late last night and we immediately went to sleep but then we woke up to this we didn't really go to sleep we have some really interesting actually ancients with some people here yeah we met some nice people already actually yeah we met a writer and get some hippie guy explaining us somebody read me about I don't know out-of-body experiences and stuff but cool people I think it's gonna be really really interested yeah for Morocco does attract there are different kind of travelers my opinion you won't need the typical backpacker here that you find in Thailand chug beer all the way know you'll find some really interesting
travelers you exactly that's what we want to show you in this series if you're on a backpacker from Europe and you've got some spare time Morocco is the place to be because it's cheap to fly here it's almost the same timezone and the weather is amazing yes yeah and super cheap budget-friendly Cheers breakfast was so good we've actually went for a second one second refill because it's all free so need to go for but first taste of American cuisine very good hey guys so the plan for today is we're gonna go buy some bus tickets to chip Shaolin because we're leaving early morning tomorrow they were gonna do a tour around the medina the old center of the city of Fez we're staying at this beautiful hostel called funky
fest yeah it's hidden behind this door it's really hard to find in the dark yeah luckily we had our taxi driver yesterday you really need the locals to find your hostel around the old century because it's crazier now we're gonna explore and the Dena probably get lost so we'll see how it goes yeah it's impossible not to get lost in this maze of busy little streets and alleys all filled with little shops and sell pretty much anything after a while we found ourselves in the neighborhood had a really bad smell in the air and we
decided to investigate okay we just got invited into this small leather shop and went through the shop and came out outside and now we're in the tanneries of Fez this is where they make the leather the old-fashioned way apparently this is the biggest and oldest tannery in Morocco and you can smell it because they gave us this these mint leaves or three or knows it really helps yeah and we're gonna have a look around while we were on the roof the shopkeeper gave us an explanation on how did tanneries work and why they gave off such a sharp stench vision cook digital while the pigeon traditionally has natural ammonia like a signal to make leather socks and support the fact that's why this man is under
vision after they washed second time another bad smell in the washing machine is it the most famous the one for the color pictures first dark is this one this is very common it's from 14th century how always yes every seven days and maybe change the color and all the color natural become from the plunge and the natural pigment red color they come from poppy flower because I believe some indicator on English stone which means the black from the cold ground to the cellar would light ground from the moon's a flower and the most expensive color is yellow from saffron and escape of pomegranate component than the one they don't put excited effect expensively make by hand in the terrace yes it's really cool to see how they keep history alive he'll invest and
stick to all traditions yes and afterwards we ended up back down to see where the Moroccan carpets were moving right there right off your ass and we really got to see the local way of life the traditional workers making their crowds as well and enjoying the whole atmosphere that really seemed like stepping back in time a few centuries saw some cool stuff in there and we didn't have to pay once again well now well we went out before they offered us tea and displayed all their carpets in front of us we saw a lot of people that were sitting there and they were
dripping all the carpets in front of them forcing them to buy something then again worth going in there is always - it's like they always say no because they don't trust anyone sometimes you have to say yeah let's just take the risk and just see what they offer this Medina is hectic guys we've been walking around for an hour now we already circled around once that we know luckily there are signs but we've asked for directions already more than 10 times and we're still not even near the blue gate finally we were able to reach Babu slew the blue gates there we found a nice roof terrace with a good view and a really cheap vegetable tagine from four euros our first BT and our first
again afterwards we wanted to escape the busy streets and check out the Botanical Gardens where we found peace and quiet okay there's gone by very well people are very friendly we have seen a lot but we're on to our next challenge we're gonna try and take a PT taxi which means small taxi around town and we're gonna see how easy that'll be so stay tuned isn't even going there I don't even know if he understood what I said our mission was to leech these ruins on top of the hill that we had spotted earlier so after some haggling a little finding found taxi what's your name nice to meet
alright that was cool viewpoint of the hill right now we're walking down a cemetery I bet this place is called Cemetery Hill and now we're gonna try and find our way back to the hostel it's totally worth the 20 Darren we paid for the taxi we still have to find our way through the maze of the Medina but once we will back out funky face we enjoyed a root meal with all our new friends and stayed up way too late talking and I had only a few are asleep we had to get up early and next day good morning in the morning we're checking out because we need to take the bus in like an hour's worth because we're going to Jeff Joe in the Blues Eddy it's still dark have you got woken up by the call
to prayer all right what about dignity took the bus I don't know I like I'm really hungry right now and I'm reading the whisper bacon yeah but I'm like I'm like in the last country where you can get some babe I'm taking the eggs okay it's now hour half an hour later turns out finding a taxi at six o'clock in the morning like there's pretty difficult while saying that actually a taxi okay that was another example of being completely full look at that donkey sometimes you see some crazy things on the streets of Morocco and eventually we did find a taxi and managed to get to the bus terminal in time the bus sir costs us about seven euros each which was a good deal since this bus we go directly to the famous blue city for hours so we
made ourselves comfortable and enjoy the views of Morocco's countryside once we arrived in chef show and we got in a taxi to meet up with someone we contacted through couchsurfing because you know we want to meet the locals and fortunately our host Mohammad turned out to be a really cool guy although he wasn't able to host us that day he still helped us find cheap hostel first impressions of chef Java is that a bit smaller than fest but very cool and the typical thing is that everything color blue but we're here for one day so we're gonna try and do as much as we can
on one day and see what there is to explore right so that's why having a local guide is the perfect thing to do thanks for caring once again and since we were starving after that bus ride Mohammad show is a small place where we could get cheap food we're trying the local food now so cheap and when the restaurant is filled with all local people you know you're in the right spot Cheers yeah this is like it was just like seven the soup is like seven bit himself even one euro and fish and it's 12 so there's like one year old since about a meal Ennis and soup they're like two euros bread I think I added a little bit too much spice comes right up a simple meal very good been a really nice meal in there what we couldn't show you is that there was a
little grandpa like cooking all the meals people don't really like to be filmed so we didn't want to intrude but it's really good and now these guys are taking us for a walk turns out have a YouTube channel can you explain what you make yeah sure what we do here in chef Shaolin is always many new people because ship salad is done the most famous like silly almost famous one is in Morocco so a lot of tourists comes here so we meet new people always exchanging culture languages so she shares with Moroccan working guys so they really like to see other culture other languages and that's what they see they make the opposite side of like the travellers here the locals that want to meet the travellers
exactly that's course and you make your videos in English or in Iraq arriving but sometimes I don't they do prank videos so thank you in English and I put there subside tools in there yeah that's cool yeah everyone on earth is doing YouTube be inspiring for the rest of the day Mahmoud and Mohammad showed us around this beautiful blue city which is actually really calm and peaceful if there are any instagramers around and vomit notes of cool places to tourists didn't know yeah so we took this outside of the city to get the best that tower was the perfect spot you'll see the Sun go down afterwards we went to a cliff to have a magnificent view
over the city so after that really cool experience we came down the mountain and we went to the main square to treat ourselves to a nice we're eating at our gene the gene Takuya for all the Arab viewers I don't know the pronunciation is right but that's Leah I think so it's a tagine with goats honey raisins almonds and vegetables it's super good yeah that was an amazing dinner a bit fancy but it only cost us eight euros so to end that really long and eventful day we listen to the street musicians in the main square going to bed
the next day we woke up to this pretty view we discovered that it's possible to sleep on the roof which is way cheaper but that wasn't a big problem for us since we managed to catch up on some much-needed sleep and so we were fully energized to get the most of our last few hours in Chefchaouen okay we found some breakfast in the medina and now my food is taking us outside the medina up the hill we're going did I have a look at the Spanish mosque outside of town very salty but a very beautiful day here in sha Shan when we arrived at the Spanish mosque we thought Mahmoud a few Dutch words and he wanted to teach us a few Arabic words two basic arabica words that our viewers you viewers could use if they come to
Morocco like some basic vocabulary what you like Arabic or broken accents Moroccan lamb broccoli broken accent I see what pretty simple hello hey sell my day cool Salam alaikum Salam alayka we already know now or just Salam if you can remember Salaam aleikom just like Salam oh yeah goodbye like Schlemmer miss lemma slam Oh miss lemon I didn't know that one sorry isn't bismillah vice mean that's like this is Mila yeah like by the name of Ally the name of my god if you're just starting to because you ever like sha allah and you have some yeah that's like a I know what the difference yeah ham dunno he's like thanks to Allah yeah and Allah is yeah how are you nervous love us you say you ask me lepers
love us for Kutner handle the Shambala handle is Salam from Salaam aleikum Salam aleykum Selam oh it's mala very basic choice remember this works yeah and you will be perfectly going here okay all right thank you for you guys man yeah well we'll practice by now our time is chef Shawn was up and we needed to rush back down to catch our bus which also men say goodbye to our new friends say man thanks for everything all right so we're back at the bus station our bus leaves in 20 minutes but they mean well what were your thoughts on the TIF: chips shelwyn was quite amazing
yeah really cool place the thing I love the most about chip chowin is that we met some locals and they noticed some places where we did we would have never found it you know about yourself yeah we wouldn't have gone out of the Medina climbed the tower blind on several roofs really cool like it's a really beautiful city and really calm really peaceful so it's really touristy maybe we would have been bored here if you were first a long time we were always in search with search of adventure but these guys made it for us yeah they did so thanks again you guys mahmoud mohamed and the other guy and i'm against me thanks a lot really cool experience here in morocco yeah so really happy that we came all this way
I can't I just yeah I'm so tired already yeah it's it's as though intense but it's amazing but it's intense yeah that's why we came here for so we're really glad that we are able to show this to you guys and we learned some rockin words as well so that's cool yeah okay but now we need to drop off our baggage and then get in the bus for hours and then we'll arrive at nights best all right let's go okay guys actually this is a good moment to talk about our sponsor we are sponsored this time and that's all because you guys are loyal subscribers have watched our videos have told your friends and I've shown us so much support that we can attract this big sponsor and I'm so happy we brought the sponsor on board because I have been
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since it takes place in this region and the narration of Jeremy Irons will I fully immerse into the story while you sit back look out the window and see the miles pass by while the Sun sinks away behind the eyes the bus tracks into the night in the next episode our train gets stuck in the blistering hot desert it is crazy train ride has been pretty crazy so far what a challenge but we can still smile
