Marrakech: El-Badi Palace, Cyber Gardens,

Posted on 3/15/2012

El-Badi Palace is right outside the Marrakech city walls, so I walked over one morning not knowing at all what to expect. It is basically a ruin at this point, but was built in the 1570's and it is HUGE. All homes in Marrakech are centered around a courtyard and this palace is as well, with the rooms situated around it. The courtyard of this palace is enormous, with a sunken pool and even sunken gardens for lemon and orange trees-
I bet when it was built it was completely amazing, I thought it was still really beautiful and impressive just imagining what it must have been like.
& how cute is this kitten that I saw right outside the palace-

I also visited the "Cyber Gardens" by accident, and yes it is a park sponsored by IBM, Intel, etc. right in the middle of the city-
so random in the middle of this giant, dry, hot and dusty city to have a gorgeous green park. 

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