Continued from Marrakesh Day 2 Part 3.

Our riad is quite beautiful. Different beauty than our riad in Fes, but still beautiful nonetheless.

Influencer selfie.

RL always makes it down to breakfast much earlier than me. Here’s my spy shot of her as I head downstairs to breakfast.

Eggs, orange juice, and chocolate cake, yes please.

Influencer photo.

Let’s hail a taxi and get our day started. During our drive out of Marrakesh yesterday, RL spotted what looks like an outdoor market that sold lamps and things. She saw no tourists there, so perhaps it’s a place where we can find hidden gems? We’ll see.

Our taxi took us on a route of less traveled roads by tourists.

Open air taxi repair mechanic’s shop.

I did read about what all those holes in the city walls are. They are for the wood scaffolding when they are building the ram earth walls. When the walls are done, they remove the scaffolding and keep the holes there. But…wouldn’t you want to fill in the holes afterwards? The holes makes it possible to climb the walls easier.

Here at the market that RL saw yesterday.

Marrakesh’s version of an antique mall and other general used goods shops. RL is in heaven and almost exploded with excitement. She is a sellers dream shopper as she very obviously falls in love with something and then isn’t capable of haggling over prices.

They’ve got all these amazing antique doors here. Wish we could bring some home to Austin.

This is indeed the place to find old Moroccan lamps and all sorts of other stuff. If only we had easy ways of bringing this stuff back to Austin.

Those were life sized statues!

I came to Morocco with a mission to find a Moroccan style lantern, and I believe I found it. It’s old, it’s dusty, it’s a little dented up, and it was probably not expensive when new, but for $35 dollars, I’ll take it! The hard part will be getting it shipped back to Austin. We thought about getting a big box and just UPS everything back, but some research seemed to indicate that it may be very expensive to do it that way. Our current plan is to get a big box and ship it back in the cargo hold of our flight as oversized luggage.

The shop owner who sold us the large round lantern invited us to visit his shop to see if there’s other items we may be interested in.

RL doing some haggling. Haggling is just part of their culture, and everything without price tags are haggled. There are essentially zero tourists here, and the seller spoke zero english. The only way to negotiate pricing is by writing down numbers using paper and pen. It seems to work…aside from the fact that RL isn’t good at it.

Time to explore more. Now that we bought something, we need to carry this old dusty cumbersome thing around the whole time. Worth it though…I think.

One of the “nicer” shops in the area. Not what RL wants. The older and dustier, the happier she is with the stuff.

Again, wish we could take some home. We love the mix of old and new things being sold here. Love the little tiny stands grilling fish and other food items. If my stomach was feeling better we would have grabbed a bite to eat while strolling around. But since its not, I didn’t want to chance eating at one of these small venders.

I’m carrying a big lamp.

Hand painting clay pots. Why don’t tourists come here? There’s some great treasured to be had here (unlike at the medina).

Restaurant supply section.

Wood working shop.

Look at those antique hand carved doors!!! We want all these doors so bad.

We found Moroccan sinks!! Just not the type RL wants, haha.

I’m carry a giant lamp still. Look at all the dust that got on my shirt from this old lamp.

RL’s turn to carry the big lamp.

Please don’t touch the cats RL. Its something I have to tell her almost constantly as she loves cats.

Those two lamp shades were super awesome and super big. Probably like 5 feet across! They were huge. I want them, even if I have no where to put them.

More Moroccan sinks. We haven’t seen any sinks in the same style that RL wants at all.

Alright, time to head back to our riad with our treasures. So glad we finally found a place that didn’t cater to tourists but instead could find some cool stuff…well, cool to us anyway.

Celebrate our successful shopping trip today. This is our last day in Morocco, tomorrow we start making our way home to Austin. We’ve asked the staff at our riad to help find some sinks like a certain one RL is looking for. One of the guys went on the hunt for us.

A good morning of shopping. Chill out a little bit here, and then more shopping we go. The staff at our riad has found a shop that sells sinks like that ones that RL wants. I wonder if the shop is paying the riad guy a commission or if we should just tip the guy? RL says its our job.

He asked us not to follow him too closely as he works at the riad but isn’t a license tour guide or whatnot, so he doesn’t wanna be bothered by cops. I guess cops bust down locals who are leading tourists around to cut down on the scams?

Here’s the store.

And what a store. It’s basically a nice furniture store, which is exactly what we are looking for. It’s also huge. This was just one room on the first floor, there are three floors to this place.

The sinks! They are nice, but they don’t have two matching bowls, which is what we wanted.

They’ve got some really cool stuff here. At the end, we did end up buying a couple of bowls. They are not matching in height, but are at least matching in diameter. We’ll just need to find a copper ring to elevate one of them to match the same height.

Since the riad staff was headed back to the riad after accompanying us to shop, we asked him to take the sinks back with him (they are not very heavy) while we went out for lunch.

Yup, this will do just fine. Nice to eat something that’s not a tajine.

Sitting right next to a very busy street.

Let’s eat! Not the best falafels I’ve had, but the wraps were great.

To be continued at Marrakesh Day 3 Part 2.