Kotoubia Minaret was not constructed to mirror la Giralda simply because Kotoubia was constructed before la Giralda. And they both were constructed by the Almohad Dynasty who ruled both Morocco and Al Andalous. There is a third minaret in Rabat called Hassan tower which has the same style. Hope u had a good stay in Morocco.
Thank you! We learned this from another commenter too, we just misheard from other people I think. We visited the Hassan tower and will show it the next video on Wednesday! I hope you stick around to watch!!! Thanks for watching :)
Thank you very very much absolutely Fantastic for not sowing any animal abuse I’m a moroccan and i have cats and dogs and hate to see any one treating animal they way they do in the square on many occasions no food or drinking water all day so the animal lover association in morocco are doing they are best to stop this cruelty and the only person can do that is the king because he loves animals too we hope so one day Thank very much have a great time Enjoy your stay in our country 👍🙏🤲🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦👁️👀
Thank you!!! Unfortunately animal abuse is still deep rooted in a lot of cultures/traditions and it’ll take a lot of educating until it’s changed. We don’t like it advertised at all and I think the very least we can do is show no evidence of it on our videos. We’re really grateful that you appreciated that!!! Thanks for watching ❤
I have just arrived back from Morocco and left heartbroken over the strays etc , one man in Tagazhout picked a cat up who just minding its own business and put it in a box then put it it a bin Weighed down with bricks. Had no way out but I knew he was going to do something because of the way he was . I turned round and saw him in and shouted at him , I released the cat , it was frantic . Just absolutely no need for the cruelty . I fed all of the cats and dogs I encountered on my travels . They deserve kindness and not to be beaten x
@@vanyabriggs4521 so sorry to hear this! Morocco has an overwhelming amount of positives but also some negatives. Unfortunately the animal abuse issue is a big problem, we feel thankful that the only time we experienced any abuse was in the markets in both Marrakech & Fes. Totally agree that they need kindness, we do the same to stray cats & dogs! All we can do as tourists is stop it if we can & not to give attention or money to any of the animal street performers. It’s awful I know, i shed some tears over the monkeys - Livvy x
Morocco is a tourist country, a beautiful country. There are many cities, such as the city of Dakhla, located in the Moroccan desert, as well as the city of Ifrane, the city of Tetouan, Tangier, and many Moroccan cities.🇲🇦❤️🎪🪂🚋✈️🛬🛫🚃🏄🏿
Greetings from the U.S. New subscriber here! This video is so timely. My husband and I are vegan and pretty sensitive to animal exploitation. We want to travel to Marrakech this fall and so I'm doing research now into how animals are treated there. Is there a large homeless animal problem? Thank you for the heads up on animals for so-called entertainment and for speaking up for them. You're exactly right - it's extremely cruel and the animals don't want to be doing it. I hope tourists take your advice! Safe travels and thanks for any advice you would like to give me.
Hey!! Thanks so much for commenting. Despite being meat eaters we’re very sensitive to how animals are treated and hate any exploitation of animals for entertainment. There are a lot of stray cats but we didn’t see so many dogs about! Personally we didn’t see any stray animals being treated badly. I personally feel that Marrakech is slowly catering itself more for tourists and not having certain things on display - for example in the city Fes, the markets have quite gruesome animal products both alive and not / whereas Marrakech it’s primarily the things we stated & horse drawn carriages (equally bad!) I hope this gives you a clear answer, it’s better to be transparent than not! We loved Morocco but certain issues definitely are there.
@@ConnorandLivvy Hey!!! Thanks for the your take on this issue, guys! Very helpful and really do appreciate the honesty. Better to be upfront. I'll stay away from Fes for sure. The horse drawn carriages are bothersome for me, too, as the horses are equally exploited. Thank you for your continued efforts to steer tourists away from paying money for cruelty to animals!
Hey! We just buy a local SIM card, it’s cheaper in the town/city but often easier at the airport. I think ours were unlimited data for one month for £20
Lovely video as always and I’ve really enjoyed your new travels starting In Morocco. I’ve enjoyed Morocco but we are 100 per cent the same as you regarding animals, it’s an absolute no no for us in any way and frankly angers me and sickens us both but It’s certainly not just Morocco . People seem amazing aswell. Can’t wait for the next one and safe travels you beautiful people 👍
The animal issue definitely bothered us in Morocco and took a lot of adjusting, we found you could stay out of the way of them rather than other places but still was rough. Unfortunately it’s a cultural thing ❤
We were not returning to London for a very long time so wanted to exchange our pounds as they were not useful to us! We used bank cards at all other times but of course some people wouldn’t want to use their bank cards 😅 no big deal!
The koutoubia mosquee was built to celebrate a huge victory over christians . The sultan built 3 mosquees actually .this mosquee, the rabat mosquee and Sevilla mosquee. Which was transformed to cathedrale later . Please check your history books before you share your info
Not sure if you’re aware but we’re human, humans make mistakes - I have corrected myself many times in the comments & we also never claimed to be a history channel. Take your negativity elsewhere, my response to you would be “please check the comments before sharing yours”
Yeah , i appreciate your keenness on animal welfare. I wish your late kings had the same attitude towards animals , then our now extinct lions would still be roaming their natural habitat.
What a strange attitude to have? If someone gets this defensive over us not liking animal abuse it says a lot about that person. Do you think we support the death of the lions? Just because we haven’t denounced every case of animal abuse doesn’t mean we agree with it.
Hi! If you’re talking about the horse carriages, we didn’t as it’s unethical for us personally! not sure how much you should expect to pay, I’m sorry!❤️
@Connor and Livvy I understand, I wouldn't entertain the snake charmers/monkeys but I thought the horses would be o.k, as they would actually be providing a service & hopefully being treated well 🙏🏽
am British and I got raped in Marrakesh last month in a public place while I walked to the toilet alone!! Be careful and don’t go to a nightclub called 555s - I flew back to English unshowered for the nightclub to refuse to show cctv and cover up the entire thing. Gangs run a lot of nightclubs and literally nobody wanted to know. Great holiday up until that point - but safety isn’t a priority in these places.
We’re so sorry this happened to you - We hope you can heal well both mentally & physically. Heartbroken for you that your holiday ended in such devastation & of course we realise that just because we had a good experience doesn’t mean it reflects to everyone.
That is the vast majority of mosques (we would know we have been to tons) - but for the Koutoubia mosque ‘non Muslims can’t go inside the mosque or the minaret, but can walk around the exterior’ We can reference about five different information sources & different tour guides - you can find this information yourself as well which I’d love for you to do before sharing!!
La Giralda was a mosque before it became a cathedral, and the Koutoubia mosque is a bit older than La Giralda, but build by the same Moroccan dynasty (almohads), infact they built 3 of them, 1 Seville(la Giralda), 1 in Marakech(Koutobia), and 1 unfinished in Rabat (hassan tower)
Thanks for correcting!!! We were repeating what we heard so is nice to know the facts, I think people get easily confused. We actually head to the Hassan Tower in a future video! We hope you’ll stick around to watch it!
What’s the name of the place where you ate the Tajine it lookend very nice . Can you recomend more places for lunch and diner where the don’t charge crazy tourist prices 😄👍🏼
9:20 tagine prices depends what type of tagine is (chicken with veggies or lamb or eggs with kefta ..) also depends on the size, enjoy your stay :D
Haha! We know lots of Tagines were eaten in Morocco! Just some restaurants are also more catered & higher priced for tourists! Thanks for watching!
Kotoubia Minaret was not constructed to mirror la Giralda simply because Kotoubia was constructed before la Giralda. And they both were constructed by the Almohad Dynasty who ruled both Morocco and Al Andalous. There is a third minaret in Rabat called Hassan tower which has the same style. Hope u had a good stay in Morocco.
Thank you! We learned this from another commenter too, we just misheard from other people I think.
We visited the Hassan tower and will show it the next video on Wednesday! I hope you stick around to watch!!!
Thanks for watching :)
Great video..amazing Marrakech
Thank you!!! It’s pretty great!!
bienvenue au Maroc 🇲🇦❤🇲🇦👍
Shukran!!!
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Lovely video of marakesh thanks for all the tips.
What's the exchange app you used for this holiday?
We use an app called currency converter plus has worked well for us so far :)
Im going here in 7 weeks ❤ im hoping ill love it
Thank you very very much absolutely
Fantastic for not sowing any animal abuse I’m a moroccan and i have cats and dogs and hate to see any one treating animal they way they do in the square on many occasions no food or drinking water all day so the animal lover association in morocco are doing they are best to stop this cruelty and the only person can do that is the king because he loves animals too we hope so one day
Thank very much have a great time
Enjoy your stay in our country 👍🙏🤲🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦👁️👀
Thank you!!! Unfortunately animal abuse is still deep rooted in a lot of cultures/traditions and it’ll take a lot of educating until it’s changed.
We don’t like it advertised at all and I think the very least we can do is show no evidence of it on our videos.
We’re really grateful that you appreciated that!!!
Thanks for watching ❤
I have just arrived back from Morocco and left heartbroken over the strays etc , one man in Tagazhout picked a cat up who just minding its own business and put it in a box then put it it a bin Weighed down with bricks. Had no way out but I knew he was going to do something because of the way he was . I turned round and saw him in and shouted at him , I released the cat , it was frantic . Just absolutely no need for the cruelty . I fed all of the cats and dogs I encountered on my travels . They deserve kindness and not to be beaten x
@@vanyabriggs4521 so sorry to hear this! Morocco has an overwhelming amount of positives but also some negatives. Unfortunately the animal abuse issue is a big problem, we feel thankful that the only time we experienced any abuse was in the markets in both Marrakech & Fes.
Totally agree that they need kindness, we do the same to stray cats & dogs!
All we can do as tourists is stop it if we can & not to give attention or money to any of the animal street performers.
It’s awful I know, i shed some tears over the monkeys - Livvy x
Morocco is a tourist country, a beautiful country. There are many cities, such as the city of Dakhla, located in the Moroccan desert, as well as the city of Ifrane, the city of Tetouan, Tangier, and many Moroccan cities.🇲🇦❤️🎪🪂🚋✈️🛬🛫🚃🏄🏿
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@ConnorandLivvy Thanks for the great video! Any idea about the availability of electric kettles in riads and hotels there? Thanks!
Hey! It’s all dependent on your hotel or riad. Our riad did & so did our friends hotel!
Greetings from the U.S. New subscriber here! This video is so timely. My husband and I are vegan and pretty sensitive to animal exploitation. We want to travel to Marrakech this fall and so I'm doing research now into how animals are treated there. Is there a large homeless animal problem? Thank you for the heads up on animals for so-called entertainment and for speaking up for them. You're exactly right - it's extremely cruel and the animals don't want to be doing it. I hope tourists take your advice! Safe travels and thanks for any advice you would like to give me.
Hey!! Thanks so much for commenting.
Despite being meat eaters we’re very sensitive to how animals are treated and hate any exploitation of animals for entertainment.
There are a lot of stray cats but we didn’t see so many dogs about! Personally we didn’t see any stray animals being treated badly.
I personally feel that Marrakech is slowly catering itself more for tourists and not having certain things on display - for example in the city Fes, the markets have quite gruesome animal products both alive and not / whereas Marrakech it’s primarily the things we stated & horse drawn carriages (equally bad!)
I hope this gives you a clear answer, it’s better to be transparent than not!
We loved Morocco but certain issues definitely are there.
@@ConnorandLivvy Hey!!! Thanks for the your take on this issue, guys! Very helpful and really do appreciate the honesty. Better to be upfront. I'll stay away from Fes for sure. The horse drawn carriages are bothersome for me, too, as the horses are equally exploited. Thank you for your continued efforts to steer tourists away from paying money for cruelty to animals!
@@pacoandellie no problem! Thank you for joining us ❤
Hello. What is the restaurant called & the food.. I'm going in 2 weeks.. that food looks gorge 😂
omgg im going next year
Enjoy! Morocco is amazing ❤️
What's the name of the restaurant that serves the good cuisine in the medina please?
My TAHER ❤️
What do you advise about phone roaming?
Hey! We just buy a local SIM card, it’s cheaper in the town/city but often easier at the airport.
I think ours were unlimited data for one month for £20
Lovely video as always and I’ve really enjoyed your new travels starting In Morocco. I’ve enjoyed Morocco but we are 100 per cent the same as you regarding animals, it’s an absolute no no for us in any way and frankly angers me and sickens us both but It’s certainly not just Morocco . People seem amazing aswell. Can’t wait for the next one and safe travels you beautiful people 👍
The animal issue definitely bothered us in Morocco and took a lot of adjusting, we found you could stay out of the way of them rather than other places but still was rough. Unfortunately it’s a cultural thing ❤
really good no pretentious video . thankyou guys x defoe subscribe
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just use your bank card for Moroccan money and even tho Moroccan cash is a closed currency you can still easily exchange it back in london.
We were not returning to London for a very long time so wanted to exchange our pounds as they were not useful to us!
We used bank cards at all other times but of course some people wouldn’t want to use their bank cards 😅 no big deal!
The koutoubia mosquee was built to celebrate a huge victory over christians . The sultan built 3 mosquees actually .this mosquee, the rabat mosquee and Sevilla mosquee. Which was transformed to cathedrale later . Please check your history books before you share your info
Not sure if you’re aware but we’re human, humans make mistakes - I have corrected myself many times in the comments & we also never claimed to be a history channel. Take your negativity elsewhere, my response to you would be “please check the comments before sharing yours”
What's track ID??
Yeah , i appreciate your keenness on animal welfare. I wish your late kings had the same attitude towards animals , then our now extinct lions would still be roaming their natural habitat.
What a strange attitude to have? If someone gets this defensive over us not liking animal abuse it says a lot about that person.
Do you think we support the death of the lions? Just because we haven’t denounced every case of animal abuse doesn’t mean we agree with it.
Hi! Did you guys get a carriage ride? If so, how much would you expect to pay?
Hi! If you’re talking about the horse carriages, we didn’t as it’s unethical for us personally! not sure how much you should expect to pay, I’m sorry!❤️
@Connor and Livvy I understand, I wouldn't entertain the snake charmers/monkeys but I thought the horses would be o.k, as they would actually be providing a service & hopefully being treated well 🙏🏽
am British and I got raped in Marrakesh last month in a public place while I walked to the toilet alone!!
Be careful and don’t go to a nightclub called 555s - I flew back to English unshowered for the nightclub to refuse to show cctv and cover up the entire thing. Gangs run a lot of nightclubs and literally nobody wanted to know.
Great holiday up until that point - but safety isn’t a priority in these places.
We’re so sorry this happened to you - We hope you can heal well both mentally & physically.
Heartbroken for you that your holiday ended in such devastation & of course we realise that just because we had a good experience doesn’t mean it reflects to everyone.
Can't abide people who don't feed their horses.
no!! everyone is welcomed to enter a mosque , you just need to have appropriate clothing! which most foreigners don't have at the spot
That is the vast majority of mosques (we would know we have been to tons) - but for the Koutoubia mosque ‘non Muslims can’t go inside the mosque or the minaret, but can walk around the exterior’
We can reference about five different information sources & different tour guides - you can find this information yourself as well which I’d love for you to do before sharing!!
La Giralda was a mosque before it became a cathedral, and the Koutoubia mosque is a bit older than La Giralda, but build by the same Moroccan dynasty (almohads), infact they built 3 of them, 1 Seville(la Giralda), 1 in Marakech(Koutobia), and 1 unfinished in Rabat (hassan tower)
Thanks for correcting!!! We were repeating what we heard so is nice to know the facts, I think people get easily confused. We actually head to the Hassan Tower in a future video! We hope you’ll stick around to watch it!
Morocco looks fab! You’re doing really well with your travels, notching up the countries now 👍🏻👍🏻
I know!!! We feel so lucky. Morocco is awesome ❤ thanks for watching as always
Hi, could you possibly tell me the name of the apartment you were in, in Marrakesh please?
Thanks.
Of course. We stayed here: abnb.me/xKfFMbkvuBb
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What’s the name of the place where you ate the Tajine it lookend very nice . Can you recomend more places for lunch and diner where the don’t charge crazy tourist prices 😄👍🏼
Hey! It’s called My TAHER ✌🏼
We’re visiting next week. What made you poorly? Was it drinking tap water?
No! We never drank the tap water in Morocco as a precaution.
In Tagazhout we got food poisoning and it made us really ill for a while :)
Thanks! I am not for the reptile charmers.
Neither! Thanks for watching!