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Local Products Marrakesh
27 Reviews Good buys include fashion accesories, fabrics, spices, natural oils, pottery, and leather goods, especially shoes and slippers. In the souks it's like a market place which specialises in particular...
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Food and Drink Marrakesh
17 Reviews Moroccan, is now one of my favourite cuisines, with it's tasty tagines, cous cous, etc. Whenever I travel, I usually try to buy spices, a recipe book or other food related objects. On this trip I...
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Clothes & Shoes Marrakesh
11 Reviews The Jalaba or Jellabas is a traditional dress of Morocco. It is more like an robe or overcoat with a hood. Both men and women wear the Jalaba but can be different colours and materials. The Jabador is...
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Carpets Marrakesh
8 Reviews Should you decide to buy, they will package the rug up into such a small square, it is amazing but easier for transporting back home. Of course the size doesn’t not equate to the weight which of...
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Souvenir Shops Marrakesh
5 Reviews A trip to Marrakesh isn’t complete without a visit to the souks, and bargaining there is a holiday experience in itself. But it’s not one that everyone enjoys, and even if you do, sometimes it’s good...
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Lamps Marrakesh
4 Reviews The industry of local arts and crafts that goes on in the souk is highly regarded - industrious, talented, artistic and wide ranging in selection for the customer. Shop for what you like, then you...
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Music & Musical Instruments Marrakesh
5 Reviews Whenever I travel, I like to listen to the local music. I usually return from my holidays with a few cd's. Morocco has a variety of styles - Arabic, Arabic-Andalucian, Berber, Gnawa or Gnaoua(a...
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Perfume Marrakesh
2 Reviews Our local guide took our group to a local Cosmetic Pharmacy during the tour of the medina. The display of cosmetics manufactured from local herbs was amazing, creams, deodourants, potions to clear...
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Paintings Marrakesh
1 Review I bought this small oil painting on canvas of a Marrakesh street scene fom a shop near Dar Si Said- as a souvenir of my trip, it was easy to carry, lightweight, and reminded me of my wanderings around...
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Tatoos Marrakesh
1 Review This is a must. Tattoo yourself with the local J'ma Al-Fna main square. don't pay more than 20 dirhams to a harm tattoo. 2€. od course that if you ant to be nice just pay 30 dirhamns. it's actually up...
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Souks are the local shops you mainly meet in medinas, I guess they are the best place to buy local products, just train your bargain skills before starting and stop only where you see something you are really interested in as, otherwise you could waste a lot of time discussing a price or watching many goods you are not interested in. Do not think to ask how much and go as those guys will not let you:)) start offering the half of what the seller asks.
the cheapest shops are in the small village. you will find lots of hand craft, china, good leather clothes and lugages , etc... look at prices in Official Markets and negociate for this maximum prices in the other markets.
Carpets are found in many places, but these " Sacs à Camel " were rather rare, and did not have an own name, but I always had to explain it in French and finally I found the right thing. These Camelbags have a great front-side with patterns that are different for the different tribes (see the 1st pic )But this is the backside, just brown in different tones, as this is the part beeing turned towards the saddle of the camel, and nobiody will see the ornaments... depends on the size, but simply considder the amount of work for such a rare thing
Carpet shops are found all over Maroc - but while you may bargain in other countries, and finally leave the shop without buying......THIS would be a big problem here in Maroc : Start to bargain ONLY if you are planning to really buy the carpet/Kilim Camel-bags were used by the nomades to transport their goods and their whole household, when moving from one place to another they are rather cheap1m x 0,80 m = ca. 40 € ( in 1990 )
Try not to get lost in the labyrinth of small streets with plenty of exotic and tempting shops maybe you get yourself a " Chellabah " - maybe for the next carneval - or simply to try out the feeling Chellabahs might be rather expensive, when you look for good quality - so you better bargain...
Be aware of the fact, that you might come into a shop for Lady's underwear - and there will be ONLY MALE STAFF and they will simply NOT deal with women - you would need a man to order, what you want - - and while you may stand next to that man - - HE would have to ask for it and pay - - and whenever a lady askes someting, they will simply not understand....This will be better in modern towns of course - but it happened to an elderly lady on my bus - in a very small shop in Fes, outside of the tourist's path
Watch out for "unusual gifts" ;-)).if you click on the pic, you will see what I mean.....and you may see animal's heads like this often sold that way in Maroc - and of course it will NOT be refrigerated, lots of flys will be sitting on it...
Go and have a look in the bazars - and even if not everything looks like the latest fashion for you - - maybe you buy some clothes for your next costume-ball at home... Some goods have a price-label sticked on it, underneath.......and I remember that I wanted to buy a small wooden box, and the merchant started to argue about the price with me.......and after we settled the price on his "very very LAST OFFER - and it was ONLY that cheap, because I was the FIRST customer of that day and it would bring luck, if the first business goes fine........"....and then I accidentally turned around the box and saw a price-label underneath, and it was just half of his very very last offer....Then the merchant sent me away, sceaming and shouting at me to leave his shop immediately...
You can find hundreds of kind Moroccen gift here. They can be a bit more expensive from the square but definetely worth to see here...
Don't shop at night, the light is bad and shop keepers off load their most badly made/marked goods. Morning is best, If yours is the first sale of the day you can bargain for a better price.
Riad Aguerzame Marrakesh
2 Reviews and 144 Opinions Situé dans la médina de Marrakech, près du palais Moulay Idriss, le Riad Aguerzame, entièrement...
Hyatt Regency Casablanca
5 Reviews and 111 Opinions I worked very hard during the day in a office witout air conditioned. You can understand how I was...
Villa Maroc Essaouira
4 Reviews and 100 Opinions Suites #27, #29,#30 are built around an open central light well. There is no way to insulate any of...
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Q: Hi, I'm flying to Marrakech on a 19 July for 10 days, I've been to Morocco before but not during Ramadan so I'm quite looking...
A: We toured Morocco during Ramadan about 15 years ago. We were only in the touristy areas of the cities and desert so I think we got a lot of slack. As I recall it was only...
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