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Surviving on £100 in Morocco - Day 1
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Mar 27, 2025
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I've managed to haggle this down to 70 lira
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70 lira. Okay, give 70. You can back and give me 30 more
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You can also wear it as a scarf. I think I prefer it as a head tie
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although it feels like cultural appropriation. All right, so I set out to pay 70
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ended up paying 90. All is well, 90 isn't too bad. I do feel slightly inappropriate walking around like this
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Okay, so one thing I've noticed is people here are definitely very aggressive with their haggling
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They'll haggle and haggle and push until you pay that extra pound. Or Durham, and they'll coax you into making you pay extra more than you wanted to
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Ah, so it's just falling off and I've gone to like redo it
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Can you help me fix this? Do you know how to do this properly? okay so one thing i've learned is as much as we might feel like it's cultural appropriation
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the locals actually don't mind if anything they encourage you welcome to morocco thank you so
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much bro you see what i mean all right so we're in marrakesh for the next three days and we have
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a thousand dirham to survive depending on how cheap or how expensive it is here it might be
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a challenge or a luxury. Now I've spent 90 dirhams already on this scarf. Now a
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thousand dirhams is around 80 pounds. So right now I'm just gonna walk around, find
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somewhere to stay, get some food, explore the city, see what activities we can do
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ETC. Let's go! Oh my lord look at this another example of people being really
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nice. They've just connected my phone to the Wi-Fi in this square. Not a restaurant
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or anywhere. I need to find somewhere to check into and like drop all this stuff off
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Okay so I found some pretty decent hostels. Now some fancy looking ones for about 12 and
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19 euros and the cheapest one I could find was 4 euros
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What the heck? It's fair to say it's very economical in Marrakesh. Now for 5 euros you get a bed in a deluxe
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six bed mixed door. Okay looks good let's head there. Okie doggs. The door closed at 1am. Okay so I've just got into the hostel
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Looks pretty standard. This is the main reception slash staging area and right across are windows directly to the rooms So if we just go in here the rooms are in here just right here looks pretty standard by these calculations um it costs 40 dirham for a night for a room four euros don sound too bad
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happy days yes please i book two nights please okay so i've just booked two nights in a six bed
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mixed dorm um which cost me 160 lira so 80 dirhams a night that should equate to about eight pounds
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or eight euros but apparently it is four euros including like city tax and other fees it goes
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up to eight my flippin heck just like that but anyways it's all good we'll sew it for the next
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two days i'm gonna drop my bag off then we can walk around explore to say maybe find some things
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to do ETC. All right, so I've just been given the tour of the hostel. I am at the rooftop
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Looks pretty chilled. Standard hostel, it's got everything you need. Not the fanciest
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but hey, for four euros or eight euros, however much I paid. But listen, you get what you pay
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for, right? Right now, we're going to head out, explore the city, get some food. Can I
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find out the prices of these? Okay, I can give you the price. How much is the cheapest one
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You want what exactly? Okay, you have one in Panmuri. What you want just for 40 euro
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Two hours. 40 euro? Yeah. I can only spend 100 dirham on something to do
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Okay, I can give you this. Camel? Yeah. 150, yeah, you know. 150
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I only have 100, though. No takers. It's a complete madhouse over here
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The city is buzzing. Here, we are different from Bastilla, Tarjean, Tarjean
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Okay, so there are a few vegetarian options on the menu. There's the tagine vegetarian and couscous vegetarian. I've gone for the tagine
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I'm not sure what it is, but let's give it a go Only for 70 dirhams. So happy days. All right. I found myself a seat outside
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with a view Vegetarian tagine has arrived And I must say it looks very impressive
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We've got some bread to go along with it. Let's eat So this is the chef that cooks the tagine
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And this is Amin. Thank you. Thank you so much, guys. All right So lunch costs those 70 dirham for the vegetable tagine and 18 dirham for the juice so that brings us all down to 660 dirham Now we are flying through the
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budget so I need to put the brakes on, I need to slow down but right now my belly is
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full I want to find something fun to do, an activity. Oh my lord, look
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No, I do feel bad taking part in that Because those animals don't choose to be tourist attractions
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So I'm trying to find something to do For 150 dirham Can I go to the waterfall
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Waterfall for 150, it's impossible Last price, 200 No Alright so I've just booked a day trip to the waterfall tomorrow morning at 8am
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Cost me $1.90. Initially they said $200. I tried to haggle down to like $1.80, $1.70
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They said no. We ended up at $1.90 so not bad at all
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That's tomorrow morning. Today I'm just going to walk around and see what else I can do in the meantime
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This is the reality of things like this. That turtle is like fighting to get out of that cage
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It's unfortunate. Alright, so I found somewhere selling baklava, pistachios. We've come to an agreement of 2 for 15
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So, let's have a go at it. Sickeningly sweet
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That's the best way I can describe it. Alright, so I went in a hostel to chill for a bit
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Gonna head out, look for dinner, and possibly something to do. Hi bro
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How are you brother? I'm good, thanks. Look at this. I'm looking for somewhere to have dinner
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Yeah, you have dinner. I'm like vegetarian, so I can't... You have vegetarian
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Falafel vegetarian. No, I can't have... No, falafel is... Tajin vegetarian. You have couscous vegetarian
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Pizza vegetarian. I've been got. How are you? What a haramander. What a haramander. Yeah
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We have two options. Couscous vegetarian or tajin vegetarian. We had the tajin for lunch, so..
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We can go for couscous for dinner. It's either that or pizza
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He's about to help me put my scarf on properly. I actually need to learn how to do it
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Amazing. Thank you so much. Thank you so much, bro. I really appreciate it. Thank you
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Our couscous tajin has arrived. I must say it looks very impressive
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Oh my lord that was absolutely delicious I have to stop myself from licking the plate clean couscous tagine and orange juice came to 57 dirham so we can round it up to 60 okay so i
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just walked into a barbershop i've used their mirror to help me fix the look it looks a lot
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better now thank you so much bro it looks like the market comes alive at night
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Hey bro. I'm sorry. Alright, so I was just walking past and I found a crepe stall
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Can I have syrup and banana please? Okay. Alright, so we've just gone for a crepe for 10 dirham
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Syrup and banana. I just found something interesting. It seems to be a game where you're fishing for drinks
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I don't know how it works. I don't know if you pay for it, but I'm hooked. Right, so I'm guessing the objective is to get the little rubber tube onto the bottle
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And then if you can get it onto the bottle, I'm guessing you win the drink. Now, let's find out how much it is to take part and see if it's worth it or not
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It does look easy, but no one seems to be getting it
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So it's making me think I probably shouldn't waste my money going for it
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But how many times do you visit Morocco and get to do something like this
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So why not, right? Okay, so it is tender to play the game
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And if you can get the tube around the bottle, you get the..
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I don't know if you get the bottle for free, but you just get to keep playing
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Okay, I've been trying for a little bit. Sometimes I've been really close to getting it in, but then it just slips by
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and you do kind of get frustrated at times but I guess that's part of the fun of it right
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I've just left the game I'm pretty sure I was the one that stood there the longest
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for about 40 minutes everyone left I'm like flipping heck when am I going to get it in
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I've left with a bit of a sour taste in my mouth that I didn't get it in
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but hey if not I would have just stood there all night until I got it in but right now I'm tired
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Alright, it's 10.30pm and people are just starting to set up shop
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So I'm guessing it probably comes alive at night. Gonna head back to the hostel and call it a day
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And I'll see you in the next one. Peace
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