Squeaky clean

In every district in every town of Morocco, you will find four things - a mosque, a religious school for kids, a communal bakery and a hammam, or traditional tiled bathhouse.

The hammam is always close to the mosque so they can share a common water source. For locals, they are social places where women (and men, but not at the same time - there are shifts to separate genders) get together to gossip, relax and wash (probably in that order).

For westerners, it takes a little longer to shed years of inhibitions and give yourself over to the hammam experience, but is well worth the initial blushing.

Many suds and buckets of water on, I have a few dozen layers less of dead skin and soft nut-scented skin. Squeaky clean, jelly bean!