Travel Snapshot / Marrakech Travel by juliab
Yesterday, we got on a plane from London-Heathrow to Marrakech. Reading the papers on the plane, we noted that it was International Women’s Day, and thought no more of it. That is, until we got off the plane and noticed a line of women at the entrance to the airport, dressed in pink and holding bunches of pink roses. OMG, we thought, either we’re on the plane with someone who merits a pink carpet arrival, or this is to do with IWD.
And so it was. Each and every woman disembarking the plane was handed a pink rose and told, “Happy International Women’s Day, Madame.” Once everyone was off the plane, the pink ambassadors came out to baggage claim to prowl around the carousel in case they’d missed anyone. As an introduction to Morocco, they did their country proud.
Not that that was the end—later in the day we popped out to the mall near our hotel for lunch, and received a thick book of coupons to use in all the mall stores for the next month (March is women’s month at the Al Mazar mall, apparently); and that evening, we noticed that women got free entrance to the local movie theater—the Megarama—so we toddled off there, to watch Un Moroccain a Paris. About 98% of the audience was female, and despite it being in French (which we haven’t spoken since school) and Arabic (of which we know one word), it was awesome.
Ladies, see you at the baggage carousel in 2013!
[Photos: julia b]
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