Trip to Essaouira

This past weekend we made a quick trip to Essaouira. Essaouira is a small town on the west coast of Morocco a little over 2 hours north of Agadir and is really beautiful.

In the old days, the entire city was completely walled in and every night at 8 pm the gates would close and if you weren't inside the walls you were stuck outside until the next morning! Now, the city has grown and the old city within the walls is called the Medina and the new part of Essaouira is called The New City.

People still live inside the Medina but now it also has hotels, restaurants and shops selling all kinds of artisan things for tourists like me. I loved all the colors and smells that were around every corner. Essaouira is not super crowded and the vendors at the little shops are not pushy or in your face so it was a really nice and relaxing experience.

We were there for less than 36 hours but ended up with hundreds of pictures. It is really nice to have a personal photographer with us at all times! Ahmed loves to take pictures so he normally takes the camera the minute we get somewhere and is on picture duty.

Day 1:

On the road to Essaouira we ran into some goats hanging out in the argan trees eating some nuts.




Who needs Paris when you can get crepes with Nutella and banana here in Morocco!



Lunch time! You just walk up to the little restaurants and pick what you want them to cook for you.



After lunch we went to look at carpets and put Lily to work testing them out.



Ahmed loves taking pictures of birds so we always find random pictures on our camera. I thought this one was actually really beautiful!



Uncooperative child…



Book exchange. This pic is for you, Katie!



My treasures from day one were a pair of boots and a purse. They are made with leather and old rugs which I thought was so neat!





After a full day walking around the Medina, we finally went to check into our hotel for the night. Danny continued the Valentine celebration by requesting our room be decorated with flowers. Lily loved it and made a mess with those rose petals!

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We stayed at a golf resort and had a great view of the golf course and the ocean. Maybe seeing pictures of golf courses will get my dad to come visit us soon!



Day Two:

We took our time at the hotel in the morning before heading back to the Medina to walk around and do a little more shopping and exploring.





I am kind of obsessed with looking in rug shops here. We ended up getting another big rug at this last shop. It was too good of a price to pass up!



At this point in the day, I had spent all the money we had brought with us so it was time to head back to Agadir.

Essaouira is definitely a place we will be visiting again!