End of Morocco

My blog feels a bit neglected as I've been home for a while now and I never wrote a final post for Morocco. The last few days were some of the best! I think just the fact that everyone knew each other really well by then made them so good! After Chefchauen we went to Asilah, a beach town, for two nights. Here we went to 'paradise beach' and had a really nice day..... aside from the mode of transport we used to get there and back. Having been told it would be 'fun' to get a horse and carridge (hardly a carridge more of a plank with nothing to hold on to) we jumped on board. Although I've found animal rides in the past pretty cruel (and scary), I thought it was just me being a vegetarian and having concern over animals, however with this one all members of my group found it very cruel and a pretty uncomfortable journey! It did make for a funny story afterwards though.... We had a final night dinner in Morocco as a group and the next morning we made our way over to Spain, by ferry. Then we got ready for a night out, a much needed one having not been able to get any alcohol for the majority of the trip! We went on a night out in Gibraltar (England abroad) and had a good dance and a laugh, before getting slightly lost and finally finding our way back to the bus, where we were expected to sleep for the night! Slightly uncomfortable but I think the consumed alcohol stopped most people caring. The next day we had lunch and mooched around Gibraltar, before heading home. Was very sad saying goodbye to everyone :( ..... coming on my own actually turned out to be an invaluable experience as I think I probably formed closer friendships with people than I would have done going with friends, it is definitely something I would do again. Character building one might say! Don't get me wrong the first few days were very hard and if you'd asked me then if I was enjoying going by myself I would definitely have said no but after a few days I pretty much stopped feeling like I'd gone by myself, as although it sounds cliche the group felt like 'one big family'. Having a reunion with most people from the trip on the 1st of September so hoping that means I will stay in contact with some of them! Goodbye for now........ will blog again when I have plans of what I'm doing next summer! Hoping for a slightly longer trip next summer, to celebrate finishing university and put off getting a graduate job! I would really like to go back to South East Asia and explore further, going to countries like Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia etc or I may go somewhere completely different.. South America could even be on the cards!

Here are some of my favourite photos from Morocco: