Stairs of Morocco.

For someone with arthritic knees, Morocco was a challenge, BUT I DID IT. Even at home, going down stairs is difficult, but Moroccan stairs don't have any fixed step-to-riser ratio. Often there are no handrails, and tile designs make it hard to judge the distances. As you can see by the photos, sometimes the ratio of riser to step is not even consistent in a single staircase. Here are photos of both indoor and outdoor stairs. The first one is enough to give one vertigo. Not too bad going up, but you certainly would not want to be drunk or stoned going down.

Even the outside steps at the Hassan II Mosque, which were even and had low risers, were a bit hard to see in the late afternoon light.

The blue steps are in the city of Chefchouen, also known as the Blue City.

Stairs to my room in Fez. The door is at the the top left and the doorstep was about 2 inches wide.  I stood on the step below and reached up to put the key in.  Fortunately the staff of the riad carried everyone's bags for them.

You can hardly see where the edge of the steps are