Koutoubia minaret
This place over look Djemaa el-Fna & medina. I was told not to take photos of the minaret by our taxi driver as it was forbidden ? can some tell me if this is true as you see i did, sorry if i offend anyone, walk in peace.
Bd Hassan II, Gueliz, Marrakech, Morocco
Spice Market
Outside room at Las Borjs De Las Kasbah, Marrakesh
Ait Benhaddou
Marrakech 2007
We are four adults travelling with a 16 month old boy in December. Can anyone recommend a reasonably priced hotel/riad that would be good for a toddler and not cause other guests undue stress with noise etc. I understand the riads are quite open and maybe not so soundproof.
I stayed at this riad and it was really nice and not expensive.
The owner speaks both english and french:
www.riad-johenna.com
Riad de la Vie is a brand new riad where I had stayed at in Marrakech. It's worth your looking into and highly recommend it. The riad is owned and operated by the German/American artist Rita Kallerhoff and is situated right in the heart of the city's medina. It's beautiful riad with each room decorated artistically by the artist herself who lives and works in the house next door. And since it's brand new, so few have managed so far to stay here.
You may contact the place thru: www.ritakallerhoff.com or call her directly in Marrakech at: 212524387164.
I have a little review of it in my Marrakech page if you want to find out more.
Happy trails.
This place over look Djemaa el-Fna & medina. I was told not to take photos of the minaret by our taxi driver as it was forbidden ? can some tell me if this is true as you see i did, sorry if i offend anyone, walk in peace.
We walked around at the market, exploring and trying to discover the different sections of the market. The market was spread out in the whole village, so it took some time before we had visited all the sections with animals, vegetables, local craft and more.
We enjoyed the special atmosphere and ambiance in the village.
Just walk into the main square during the evening and the entire place will be alive with food stalls and shows. Kids boxing, snake charmers, you name it, there here. Just walk around and find a bench, sit down, and order from whatever is on showcase. The best choice are kababs and couscous.
After you've wandered around the stalls, gorged on all the mouthwatering food and watched everything on the square it's time to retreat to one of the many cafes and watch the goings-on from a distance. In terms of views, though not of food, the best are the rooftop cafes. From here you can see the entire square: the smoky and brightly lit food stalls are the centre, but circles of locals form all around the square watching storytellers and actors, and around the edges are the juice stalls selling fresh orange juice. On the northern side are the souks - full of anything you could possibly want to buy, and lots of things you definitely don't!
There are tourists aplenty in Djemaa el-Fna and it's tempting to dismiss it all as a commercial show, but the stories are all in Arabic and Berber and plenty of locals come here regularly as well. The monkeys, snake charmers and fortune tellers seem purely for the benefit of tourists though and you might find one evening here is enough - although most vistors come back night after night.
Attached to the Medersa ben Youssef is its namesake mosque, which preceeded the medersa itself. It is the second largest mosque in Marrakech, and was originally built in the 12th century in honour of Sidi Ali ben Youssef, one of seven patron saints of the city. Successive restorations in the 16th and 19th centuries have left little of the original mosque to admire. However, the only remaining structure from the original mosque, Qubba Ba'adiyn, was discovered and unearthed only in 1948, and is located just outside the mosque.
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