THE ART OF TRAVELING

Does it still exists?

In the words of a Riad owner: "The Internet is killing the art of traveling".

Because with every year that goes by he sees that tourists are more and more prepared.

They know everything, and have prepared everything.

With as a result that, yes, that square looks exactly like on the photos.

And, yes, the atmosphere is like in the video they saw.

And no, nothing surprises them, all is quite OK.

But going back home with a fantastic story, with the feeling the lily in their soul has been crushed... what is that?

Do not prepare!

Go with the flow. You do not have to catch that train at 11:07.

Switch off the cell phone, throw away that map, stop feeling harassed or stressed.

You are on a voyage, you have the possibility to see, smell and wonder.

So you get annoyed by too many businessmen in the souks trying to lure you into their shop.

You could wonder about the why.

An economy in shambles, thousands of competitors, and mouth to feed.

Of course many people do not like it to have to be that way.

How would you feel doing that? How deep would you have to sink?

You have found a treasure that can enrich your insights and test your prejudices.

Live it.

We brightened one up.

Because this is the internet... and heck, that means we have to catch the attention in a blink of an eye.

While you are in a country of subtle and faded colours.

If you've got a photographic eye, or an eye for shades, for details... this is just paradise.

In that case the art is all around you.

Not even 5 years ago, this square in Marrakech was pure magic.

Nowadays it has been cleaned, paved, the smoke is gone, the candles are gone and replaced by electric lights.

The stables have been reduced in number and are neatly lined up. Tourists outnumber the locals by far, and well, it's gone.

Magical Morocco? That is now elsewhere, in general it takes you 10 kms away from the main railroads tracks.

Fortunately there is still so much of it!