 Hello everybody. I hope you're having a wonderful day. If you're new here, my name's Habiba. I'm a full-time adventure traveler, and this is my YouTube channel, Checking Pels, where I share my adventures around the world. Today, I'm coming to you from the beautiful medieval city of Rabat, the capital of Morocco after I had a wonderful adventure in the city of El Jidida. And I'm coming to you exactly from Hassan Tower. This tower right behind me was supposed to be the minaret of a mosque that was supposed to be the largest mosque in the Islamic world. Unfortunately, the sponsor of this project, yeah, Kubel Mansour, died in the 12th century before completing the construction of this mosque. But it's still standing right here at 44 meters high surrounded by walls from centuries ago, and there are about 348 columns right here. This is a must-see if you are adventuring in Rabat. I'm so happy to start my adventure out here, and I cannot wait to show you more of the beautiful city of Rabat. Right next to Hassan Tower is the Moslem of Muhammad Fit. It's right there, right behind me, and right there is where King Muhammad Fit is buried alongside with his two sons, late King Hassan II and Moulay Abdullah. It's closed right now. It's under construction. You can usually go inside and take a look, but it's unfortunately closed right now, but it's a beautiful building. There is another building right next to it. I'm not sure what it is, but the architecture right here is top notch. It's so very captivating. There's a really neat view as you cross Hassan Tower, as you cross the street. You get a wonderful view overlooking the river, some of the highways. There's some construction going on. I'm not sure what that building is, but it looks pretty neat. It looks like the Salesforce building in San Francisco. I have to check what that building is about, but the view from out here is so incredible. You can also get some really neat spots if you are into photography of the tower. You can see it right there. You can really take some cool photos of the tower from across the street. Wow, this exceeded my expectations. I've been to Rabat so many times, but I never had the chance to come to Hassan Tower. I am so impressed by the architecture, the design, the engineering of all of these highways and gardens surrounding the site right here. Good morning from Marina Burgrig. This is the Marina between Rabat and Saleh. Saleh is an adjacent city to Rabat, so we made our way here earlier for breakfast. There are so many wonderful restaurants, neatly decorated, so many options to choose from for breakfast, brunch, or for lunch. So we had breakfast in one of them, and then we just walked around the Marina. I love the view from out here. You can even rent kayaks if you're up for it to just go on a little stroll on the water. As you can see, there are so many boats behind me. We got here from Rabat earlier using Indrive, which is a rideshare application here in Morocco because you can't use Uber. Honestly, I've been so pleased using it here in Rabat and in El Jidida. What I like the most about the Marina right here is the view of Hassan Tower, which is really neat. This building behind me is under construction. We're going to wander around for a little bit, and then we're going to make our way to catch boats so that we can traverse from Saleh back to Rabat, which is something that I've been really, really excited to try. We're just catching a ride from the Marina in Saleh to cross to the other side. We're leaving Saleh behind us, and we're crossing to Rabat. It's a pretty short ride, two and a half dirhams, which is very reasonably priced, but a fun short ride nonetheless. And just like that, we are back to Rabat. That was a pretty short ride, but if you want to take a longer ride, they range from 50 dirhams, 80 dirhams, and I think 120 dirhams. You can catch a ride all the way to Udaya. This wooden ship behind me has been there for years, and it's a restaurant with a really neat view on Bur Greg, the river right here. I've never been there, but I'll probably try it at some point. Let's see. We just walked by Qasbah Udaya behind me, but we're not going to go in yet. We're going to make our way to the old market of Rabat. We're going to stroll around for a little bit, and then we'll leave Qasbah for later in the day. Maybe we'll be here for the sunset. I was told that the sunsets from Qasbah are pretty incredible, but we'll see if that's going to work out. But for right now, let's go to the old markets of Rabat. We're inside the old markets in Rabat. This is pretty typical in pretty much every city in Morocco. You would find a market like this or an old Medina with a lot of vendors of Moroccan artwork. But what I like about the Medina here in Rabat, or the old market here in Rabat, is the fact that it's not as overwhelming as other cities, especially Marrakech comes to my mind. You feel like everyone is trying to make you buy stuff while it's pretty chill right here in Rabat. No one is after you. You can just buy whatever you want or just stroll around peacefully, which is pretty nice. I stopped by the store to get myself a pair of travel pants. I've been wanting to get one for a bit now. This is what I'm trying right now. Super comfortable. What do you guys think? I think I'm going to go for it. Lunch today is at the Albeya restaurant near Marche Central for the tramway station for the Medina. We just found this restaurant randomly, but I'm really happy with how everything looks like so far. They have a nice seating area inside and out. And we're starting off with a salad of the with a lot of vegetables. And then we're going to dig in and enjoy some grilled meat, fries, fries and vegetables. So excited to eat. It's been a long morning. I am so excited today. I'm joining the community of Le Voyageuse in Rabat. This is a community of female travelers, mostly Moroccans, but also travelers from all around the world. This is Nadia. She is the founder of Le Voyageuse and she invited me to this event. So I'm going to join them for yoga today. And I'm going to leave more information about this community. This has been a wonderful community of travelers. Really, really helpful. You guys should check it out. I'm going to start the yoga session and I'm super excited. We're out here in Ibnussina forest in Rabat. Yay, let's go. I just had a wonderful session with Le Voyageuse and I got a free hat. It felt so good to practice yoga again. It's been a long while and we followed with some meditation. There are a lot of kids just playing soccer right there in the field. I'm going to make my way back to my Airbnb to relax for the rest of the day and I will see you guys tomorrow. Good morning from Rabat. I'm getting ready this morning to check out of the Airbnb where I've been staying for the past four days. And I was really happy with the location. We were lucky to find this cute small Airbnb near the train station of Medina, Rabat. So we literally got dropped off by the train and walked to our Airbnb, which is pretty convenient. Unfortunately, I have to check out today and move to a different one. But before I do that, I want to give you a tour of this cozy little Airbnb. This is the room. They've got a king-size bed. There's some storage over there and some drawers. And this is the entrance of the door. This is the bathroom. The shower over there was really tidy and neatly decorated. That's another view of the room. And on the other side, there's the living room. I really love the turquoise blue with the black and white. That's a little flower that I bought yesterday. I'm going to leave it out there. That's the view from the window. It gets a lot of light. And this is the kitchenette, which was pretty well equipped. We cooked a lot during this trip to be honest. Or at least we're striking a balance between eating it out and cooking. That's been really nice and my mom's been really helpful. And that's a mini fridge. So cute. And from the window, you can literally see the train station right there. You can literally walk to it. And that's been super convenient. But for right now, I'm going to move to the next Airbnb and continue our adventure in Rabat. Hello from Rabat. I've been a little bit quiet the past few days. We took a few days to just relax and unwind, but I'm out again exploring and at least following and sharing with you some of the places I'm visiting here in Rabat. We are at Kasbah Udaya. And behind me is the main door of the Kasbah. I've been wanting to make my way to this monument for a very long time. It's a UNESCO World Heritage alongside with many other sites here in Rabat. So I'm really, really excited to go inside and show you what the Kasbah looks like. This is the view from the Kasbah from up top. You can see where river Burgrat connects with the ocean. The view from up here is pretty neat. There's also a small beach on the other side. I can see some people, I think, surfing right there. The sun is going down and I'm pretty sure that the sun sets from up here are pretty neat. This view is so special. From this other side, you can pretty much see every other monument that we've been to over the past few days. You can see Hassan Tower. You can see the Mosul-e-Muhammad fit. You can see the bridge. You can see the boat that takes you to Traverse from Rabat to Saleh and vice versa. The view is so neat from here. And there's also the building that's still under construction. This is incredible.