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I've just returned from two weeks in Morocco where our small tour group was saturated in the history, languages, culture, agriculture and architecture of the country.  The dominant tongues are Arabic, Berber and French and our guide spoke all three.  He was a font of information, shifting easily from one topic to another and enlivening bus trips with observations about the countryside we were passing. Morocco is a poor country striving to emerge in the 20th Century and not yet in the 21st.  There are still a prevalence of donkeys, mules and horses used as beasts of burden with men pulling two-wheel carts to the marketplaces.  Cars, motorcycles and three-wheeled bikes abound.  Streets are chaotic.  Soldiers and police are everywhere as a guard against terrorism.  There is a king and a parliament and they are working to move the country forward, but it is hard.  Morocco's dominant industries are phosphate mining and agriculture, but the country is in the worst drought of the last 40 years. It is struggling to feed its people.  Water is everything.  The country is dry and on the edge of the Sahara.  Its condition today is a testament to climate change and what it can do to populations.  All in all, an instructive trip and well worth 14 days.