first day in MOROCCO! المغرب صدمت في

Good morning everybody, it's Syvel Khair from beautiful Marrakesh here in Morocco

I arrived pretty late last night to the beautiful Riyadh I'm staying out, which is a large traditional house with a courtyard with a small pool of water in the middle

which are often now converted into hotels. I rode here late last night

Let me give you a quick tour of the Riyadh I'm staying at and then we're going to head out and hopefully explore the beautiful historic district here

in the central part of Marrakesh. Hopefully meet some incredible locals along the way

and also eat some good traditional food. So yalla, let's go. welcome

wow beautiful hey everybody welcome to Le Jardin's Secret here in the center of the medina in Marrakesh

dating back to over 400 years back to the Sa'dan dynasty a Riyadh here in Marrakesh is basically a traditional manor house

which centers around a huge water basically an oasis in the center of the Riyadh

Riyadh gives you, especially here in the centre of Medina, an oasis of quiet and peace

And as you can tell, it's beautiful. Let's take a look around. So just to the right of the main gardens, beautiful gardens, there's the huge pavilion

behind me is an amazing photography exhibit and it's stunning so much detail

and so much peace in what is a very crazy and busy market it's definitely

worthwhile coming here and spending just a bit of time in the morning relaxing

before taking on the very busy but very beautiful market Of course here in Marrakesh I had to come to the Ben Yusuf Madrasa

Madrasa literally translates to Islamic school and it's one of the best historic sites here

in Marrakesh dating back to the 16th century. As you can see it's filled with beautiful Islamic tiles and colours and beautiful detailing

It's in this afternoon light stunning. I am really just in awe of the incredible details

in this place. It really just offers you an oasis of peace in the middle of the crazy

market and you can see the tiling behind me All of the beautiful colours And this sculpture is sublime The detail is magnificent

Look at this. All around the edges. All around here. Beautiful panelling

All carved from wood. And the central piece. Just like the Riadzia in Marrakesh and Morocco

they all centre around a pool of water. offering it offering again an oasis of calm and also relief from the heat which comes here in the

middle of summer it gets pretty intensive but well coming to Marrakesh this has to be a good spot

smell the tunnel the barber gas mask Because the tunnel will have smell right inside

Smell the leather. Take it, man. Have a good time, man. Thank you, man

Bring us to the smell. Thank you. Nice to meet you. So the leather process here in Morocco is very, very famous

especially here in Marrakesh. And right now it's currently Friday. and every friday apparently the berbers from the atlas mountains they come here and bring the leather

to be processed here in the leather tannery and i've just arrived let's check it out let's see how

the process is made i've just been explained that the leather goes into the calc which is

then processed which actually makes the leather a lot softer and it's then put outside for 25 days

to dry and become a lot softer let's take a look around

so the entire process actually takes around roughly 50 days to make one piece of leather

which then goes for sale right behind me is cow and sheep and also camel leather which is being

processed right now so it goes into the calc and is air dried in the pretty scorching moroccan heat

so this right here is an example of the leather which is being dry that's cow leather

all the work is out here in the boiling heat okay so after the entire process this is one of the final results this is made from sheepskin

and they actually hand make the dyes from natural pigments so this right here is made from nettles

so there's two types of nettles one that is stinging and the other which is not they also

make nettle soup with that one and they actually make the green dye from that material this one

right here is from goat skin hand dyed with poppies and this right here is from the camel stomach

other examples this one here is made from the camel at the back of the camel all different

amazing materials all handmade here in the market so over 450 people individual people work to hand

produce all of the garments the bags everything else in between wallets handbags 450 people work

every single day to produce what you see in the store. And to be honest, actually incredible prices

for the amount of work that goes into hand processing, hand dyeing

and getting to this final resort. It's pretty amazing craftsmanship, which is pretty lost actually in this modern day work

of factories and machines. It's amazing traditions that I hope are never lost

What's the name? This? Limogran? Wow, really nice

Like baklava. incredible mosque which is over a thousand years old almost a thousand years old and i'm walking

through souk laksua i think the real name is pretty much a soup that you'll find anywhere here in

arabic countries filled with beautiful fresh fruit and vegetables beautiful clothing ceramics

handmade leather obviously fresh produce and it's incredible actually pomegranates right now i think

are in season so as you can see all around me there are beautiful fresh pomegranate juices being sold

shops like this as i experienced earlier leather here in morocco and especially marrakesh is

incredible all handmade with such delicacy and intricacy so many amazing shops around here

take a look at this wow I came here last night quickly for a quick walk around. I didn't actually bring my camera, but the things I saw were

Amazing so much culture and history right here in this place and I've arrived here around 6 p.m

One and a half hours before sunset We can check out hopefully a lot of amazing street food fresh fruit fresh fruit juices and hopefully a lot of nice people we can meet

along the way. What is the name? This is... Mixed. Mixed? Yeah, this gives us a go

I've just walked past and straight away I've already been given an amazing mix of fresh fruit

Whoa! That is... That is mango, apple and orange. Hello

There's a live snake. Whoa. No. Okay, I just arrived to this huge square, which is here so far

Unlike last night, which is a bit later, there's no live music just yet. All you can hear are the continuous whistles of the flute

which they use to enhance the cobras into dancing. I just came across one

Didn't expect to see them right here. Can you hear it? That's all the noise you can hear, it's just filling the entire area

And I can see so many stores with the cobalt. Wow, it's intense

And there are also monkeys too so they're not eating real life

Wow, monkeys, cobras all in the first five minutes of arriving. There are monkeys everywhere

Cobras here. Music I am also bumping into so many of you

So if you're coming up and saying hi, thank you. I appreciate every single one of you so much

This is such a special day to be here. Wow. Welcome. Shukran

Everyone here is so welcoming and so friendly. So this is one of the main streets heading off from the main square

And I came here last night and there was an incredible amount of people here. Huge bazaars, people selling things for a very cheap rate

And people go pretty much crazy here. And usually, as I've found in most Arabic countries, they come alive at night

So right now I'm just about to have some dinner before the sun sets. It's about an hour until the sunset

I'm going to head up and meet some of my good friends. And then we're going to spend the evening wandering around

seeing who we can meet. Hopefully tasting some good street food and sweets, of course. We're in an Arabic country

Sweets are the best. Morocco is very nice. Morocco is the best

Nice to meet you. If you guys are here, come to number 52

The guys are great. As I explained earlier, here, really in the Arab world, the streets come alive at night

And obviously, so do the Marrakesh, the incredible people I just met. That is the vibes you get from Marrakesh so far

Just lovely, kind-hearted people. Source here, competition. gyms, they're all setting lights here

And then there's a lot of amazing music, live bands everywhere. People here are just hanging out

hanging out with their families. And I guess getting a bit of a respite from the heat

Like today has been pretty close to 40 degrees, which has been very, very intense, but it's been amazing

Such a good day. It's such a good first day. And I can't wait, inshallah

to continue this epic journey across Morocco. okay and that right there was the first day in beautiful marrakesh here in morocco tomorrow i

actually leave i'm not 100 sure what i'm doing just yet but i think in just under 12 hours maybe

let's see I'll be heading to the desert to spend two days camping in the desert I'm not 100% sure

if not I'll head up north to Megnes or Fez and then maybe head my way up to the coast I'm not

sure not 100% sure what I'm doing just yet but I'm sure we'll find out soon I can't wait to

continue exploring this beautiful country let's see what we can get up to see you soon