Ok... for those of you who haven't been to Morocco I'm going to give you a lesson on taxis. Here there are two types of taxis, petit (small) and grande (large).
The petit taxis take you around town and do short little distances much like at home, there is not much you need to know. You can tell its a petit taxi because its usually the size of an old Nissan Micra.
The grande taxis, usually older Mercedes-Benz 4 door sedans, will take you longer distances, quite often inbetween towns and over a few hundred kms. You bargain for the price you want to pay rather than have a meter, so do your research before hand to know you're getting a good deal.
What you dont expect in the grande taxis is that they usually cram 7 passengers plus the driver into this 5 seater sedan. And then they attempt to push this car as hard and fast around crazy corners and around slower vehicles (which is everyone else on the road). Most of these passing tactics are executed on the said corners and through villages with slow spee signs.
Lastly to top it off, not one of us are wearing seatbelts during this journey; I did get to help fix a flat tire enroute though. So needless to say is that I had a great time.
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