Masters in ripping off tourists

Surrounded by tourists who can afford a vacation, expensive brands and restaurants, you want to have a piece of this wealth if you live in poor surroundings. In order to get this, the fantasy of the Moroccan have no limits that what they have proved to us within the 2 week trip. We were surprised that we had so many "friends" in a country, which we haven't visited before. The simplest one is to get money for being our guide through the narrow alleys in the Medina of Marrakesh even if we did not ask for it.

This started when we looking for our hotel. It did not even take 10 secs and we had 5 kids who helped us to find the Riad Hadika Maria.

And of course they wanted to have money for it. They wanted 2 euro each and were shocked when we said no. More clever is the technique that they say that they are gentlemen, that only want to help and don`t want money.

The guy who said that to us at least 10 times at the end wanted money anyway and was not happy to get only 3 Euro for 15 minutes. Next day when we ran into him again, he was really aggressive towards us as we were not paying him enough money and we gave him another 1.5 Euro just to get rid of him. Of course he was again not happy but we ignored him. Even officials don´t mind to take some money. Coming back from shopping in one of the exclusive supermarkets...

...we realized that we were parking wrongly and that one of the tires of our car was blocked. All other cars – parked incorrect as well – were fine. Well the guy who had the key to unblock our car wanted 10 Euro.

During the whole discussion we realized that one of the others took the shopping car, which was empty by then, however the coin for it was of course gone. And before leaving Morocco we had to go through security… I had to put my cell phone, keys, and coins into a box. Although the detector was making noises when I passed, the officer said it was fine and handed me my cell phone and keys personally. Well, it took me some time to realize that he did not hand over the coins. Maybe he thought this was the tip from rich guys… Unbelievable!