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Towns /Cities / Sights around Marrakesh: Ouriki, market day
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  • Updated By sachara on August 15, 2004
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  • Towns /Cities / Sights around Marrakesh - Marrakesh
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    We were very excited to have a look in this village at the marketday. When we walked around, it was as if we were back in another era. These pictures are not from 1975, but made in 2000. It was very crowded in the village indeed, but it was also easy to find some more quiet places at the edges of the village with only a few donkeys and local men around.

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    Towns /Cities / Sights around Marrakesh: Essaouira,,,,The Peaceful City,,,!!: )
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  • By khalid_2 on May 3, 2006
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    Essaouira is a lovely contrast to Marrakech in that it is a very relaxed sea-side town and feels more like Africa meets Portugal than the very Arabic Marrakech. In comparison to other resorts on the coast Essaouira is unspoilt and still very charming. It takes about 2 hours to reach it from Marrakech along a straight road across desert-like scenery. The town itself focuses around the old fortified harbour where you can eat grilled sardines freshly from the boats and there are also plenty of seafood restaurants in the town. Wood-carving is famous in this area and the town also has a lovely old souk to explore. Essaouira still has quite a hippy atmosphere as popular in the sixties with Hendrix and the surfing crowd. The beach is a huge crescent of sand enclosing the more modert part of the town. The beach can get quite windy at times and so is popular for windsurfing but is also lovely for long walks in and around the town.

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    Towns /Cities / Sights around Marrakesh: A Berber village
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  • By Minstrelette on July 2, 2005
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  • Berber village - Marrakesh
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    Visit a Berber village, not too far from Marrakesh. You will meet friendly people who will invite you into their home for tea (delicious tea). There will be people asking you to buy their goods, but there is not as much pressure as in the city. It's a nice relaxing visit after being in the Marrakesh markets.

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    Towns /Cities / Sights around Marrakesh: Telouet Kasbah – past glory
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  • Telouet Kasbah, seen from the village - Marrakesh
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    In the past Telouet was an important stop for camel caravans from Marrakech to the Sahara. The Glaoui brothers built a Kasbah on this place controlling the traffic to/from the south. It was the main residence of Al-Thami el-Glaoui, Pasha of Marrakech. It was built in the 19th and 20th century and housed up to 1000 people. After the independence of Morocco in 1956 the Kasbah deteriorated and nowadays is more or less a ruin, although our guide told the building should be restored. We were approaching the Kasbah from the (old) village of Telouet along the slave houses and crossing the Mellah River with great of the building. Coming closer and closer the building became more and more impressive with its massive red mud walls. Through a courtyard with camel stables and a minaret of a former mosque we reached the wooden gate into the palace. Although most of the buildings are really ruins, there are just two rooms, which still gave a good impression of the wealth and power of the Pasha. The central reception and the harem room are beautifully decorated with stucco work, carved cedar wooden ceilings, painted doors and fantastic zellij tiles. Windows do have nice ironworks, which invites shooting a picture of Telouet and the mountains. These two rooms look like the palaces in Marrakech. Information For Telouet turn off from the Tizi-n-Tichka Pass road (signposted) and follow the narrow road into the valley for about 20 km’s. You can not miss the impressive Kasbah, otherwise a ‘guide’ will offer his services bringing you to the palace and showing you around. We had to pay 20 Dirhams for the guide and the entrance fee (10 or 20 Dirhams) to the caretaker.

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    Towns /Cities / Sights around Marrakesh: Asni - Saturday Berber souk
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    Asni is a small Berber village along the main road to the Tizi-n-Test Pass. Its location is rather scenic with good views of the Toubkal, with a height of 4167 metres the highest mountain of Morocco. The village is spread along the road with some shops and local cafés along the road. First we had a Moroccan coffee in one of these local cafés together with our driver, before entering the weekly souk of Asni, which is hold every Saturday. Just behind the gate we reached a completely different world, although having seen the Kasbah and souks of Marrakech. This rural souk looked like we were back in the ‘middle ages’. Fruit and vegetables are spread out on the ground, paths are muddy and most people look poor. In another part of the market vendors were selling chicken and goats, next to the stall of a (donkey)blacksmith. Perhaps most remarkable was the ‘car park’ with a huge number of donkeys. You may find it turning to the left after the entrance gate. Such a rural souk is much more authentic (I would say a must see during a Marrakech visit) and we liked it much more than the more commercial souks in the city. We were more or less alone between locals and after making an overall picture of the market some of them were rather angry. So we accepted the ‘help’ of a conman, although we intended not to accept offers from anybody. To be honest it felt quite comfortable strolling around with him. At the end he offered some Berber souvenirs and after a lot of bargaining (from 400 to 70 Dirhams) we bought one. Be aware: Asni seems to be well known as hustlers, touts and conmen village. Information Asni lies about 50 km’s from Marrakech and is accessible by bus or grand-taxi. We visited the market during our trip to the Tizi-n-Test Pass.

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    Towns /Cities / Sights around Marrakesh: Ouriki, sheeps and goats
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  • Ouriki market, sheeps - Marrakesh
    Ouriki market, sheeps
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    The most crowded part of the market, where it was not easy to move forward, was the animal section. Here we saw many goats and sheeps. It was very interesting to have a look at the lifely bargaining and trade between the villagers.

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    Towns /Cities / Sights around Marrakesh: The feel of the desert
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  • Towns /Cities / Sights around Marrakesh - Marrakesh
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    You really get the feeling of being part of a camal caravan when you enter this place

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    Towns /Cities / Sights around Marrakesh: Ouriki, vegetable an fruit market
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    In Ouriki we saw except a lot of vegetables also fruits from the fertile valley. We enjoyed a lot to walk around at this part of the local market. It was nice to look, what's happened here. And of course we bought some of the delicious local fruit.

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    Towns /Cities / Sights around Marrakesh: Caravan site
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  • By mvtouring on May 26, 2004
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  • Feeling like sheiks - Marrakesh
    Feeling like sheiks
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    I am not quite sure where this was, but is took us approx one hour by bus to get there. The whole place looks like a caravan site and you eat inside the tents, sit on lovely carpets and get the most devine food to eat.

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    Towns /Cities / Sights around Marrakesh: Country villages
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  • Country village - Marrakesh
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    I found the little villages that we passed in the country side most charming. They kind of blended in with the landscape, same colour etc.

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