0307. Castle Overload... (Mor 140--new)
Finally I reach Rissani--I'm thirsty and hungry so I go ahead and go straight to the market area for a tagine... Take an hour or so to chill out at a local cybercafe and then head out to explore the town.
It's the middle of the day, the market is shut down, it's hot--and there's not a whole lot going on here in town... so I continue on towards outside to the countryside... and find a castle... and then another castle... and then another... So many castles that I can't possible explore them all! In fact, folks in these hinterlands don't live in regular, houses--they just all live in castles and work the fields around them...
It's an amazing region--and I scurry in and out of each castle trying to discover everything I can about this unique culture. Unfortunately, a lot of these castles have only dead ends inside--people have separate doors from their houses directly to the outside--so invariably I find myself in awkward situations coming to a dead end--running into a very perplexed lady and asking "uh... I'm sorry... this is a dead end, isn't it?"
Finally I reached my mud castle saturation point and just couldn't keep on discovering any more...
Maybe I'll have to come back this way some other time...
