Casablanca!! We are in Morocco

So Katie and I made it to Morocco! We met up at the airport and made our way to Casablanca by train (35 min). We stayed at the youth hostel there and wandered the medina (old part of the city) We got ourselves lost and found again, basically just exploring away the hours until we just couldn't walk anymore. It was at this point we walked some more to find food where we ate for only 5 Dh which is approx. 85cents!!.

Fruits and vegetable in the medina

This morning, Katie along with a fellow traveler we picked up named Rachel made our way to the Hassan II Mosque. It is the third largest mosque in the world holding up to 25,000 worshipers at one time. It was stunning, and of course huge! The coolest part is the roof opens to allow the heat to escape, because as you can imagine, 25,000 people get quite hot in there. All the building materials used were from Morocco - all except some white marble and glass which came from Italy, but really that was a super tiny part of the mosque. Another impressive point is that it was constructed in just 6 years. Of course it faces toward Mecca, so we at least knew which way east was!

The huge doors to the mosque - see how small I am!!

Katie and I standing outside the mosque, it has the highest religious minaret in the world standing 200 meters high! It was beautiful!

My artistic shot through a multitude of arches, very Islamic in nature, and so pretty.

All set to head out of Casablanca! Katie, along with Rachel, and myself are off to Fes by train! There is a lot to explore and see there as well. We are pumped!