We left Medellin on April 23 towards Panama. After a short stopover we flew to Lisbon, Portugal. We arrived in Lisbon at 11:00pm, took the train and headed to a hostel we found on Booking.com, however it was very hard to find and did not get to bed until 1:30am.
We spent the morning on a free walking tour around Lisbon’s city centre. What a beautiful city, we will have to come back… of course we will come back!
We departed Lisbon at 4:00pm and after an hour we arrived in Casablanca, Morocco; got a free SIM card right at the airport and then took the train to Casa Voyageux train station. At the train station we got onto a taxi and all of a sudden the driver got an additional passenger. We argued with the driver about it because you never know who is getting into a cab with us and what the intentions are, however there was no point because of the language barrier. We decided to stay in the taxi and hope for the best! It was all okay, apparently the driver wanted to make some extra money with an additional passenger, as we paid full price and the other passenger also paid a bit.
We arrived at the hotel and met with Marcela’s aunt, uncle and cousin that were waiting for us. Late that night we went for dinner and then walked around town, the last stop was to see the outside of Hassan II Mosque at night.
We then decided to get a taxi to go back to the hotel and this experience was not short of excitement. We talked to a taxi driver and he agreed to take all five of us, which is apparently illegal (we did not know that), however the other taxi drivers had a different opinion. They started confronting our driver and the altercation almost ended up on a fist fight… we were just pure spectators inside the taxi, well not that much because I came out of it to take pictures. Finally, they agreed to split the fare and take us in two separate cabs.
Not a bad few hours in Morocco, let’s see what tomorrow brings!