When in Morocco, buy real leather!

Curtains of colorful leather footwear such as these are a common sight at patios of stores at Morocco's bustling souk or marketplaces. What catches the fancy of tourists to this traditional Moroccan shoes are the colors, as these come in vivid hues of deep red, bright tangerine, lemon or mustard yellow, or even brighter shades of aquamarine or sky blue. Fellow travelers I've met during my visit to Morocco in Summer of 2010 said Moroccans -- if not all desert-dwellers in North Africa and other Arab states -- are clad in bold-colored garbs in order to make them much more visible in the middle of the desert. A sea of Moroccans in their traditional clothing, even when not in the desert, indeed makes for a post card-perfect picture!

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