The Marrakech Holiday Guide: for services, attractions, eating out, accommodation & shopping.
The Marrakech Holiday Guide
We aim to offer information for English speaking travellers to Marrakech; on Marrakech Riads, Villas, Hotels, Restaurants, Shopping, Sight seeing and other visitor attractions. Started in 2009 The Marrakech Holiday Guide is in it's infancy ......... but gaining momentum. The Editor
Marrakesh, Morocco
"A city of irrigated gardens and sun-baked walls the colour of terracotta, the Medina of Marrakech was founded nearly a thousand years ago as an oasis in the arid Haouz plain. The city is an exotic blend of Arab, Berber and sub-Saharan influences and is often referred to as the Capital of the South."
Peter Dyer, Maison Mnabha.
Place - D' jemaa el Fna
As a regular traveller to Morocco I am still amazed by the enormous diversity that Marrakech offers when one considers that it is less than three and a half hours away by plane.
The main square of D' jemaa-el-Fna (pictured above) surrounded by its endless labyrinth of souks (bazaars) is well documented and conjures up visions of snake charmers, acrobats, sooth-sayers, musicians, food stalls and the like.
Fascinating, it certainly is and especially when the sun is starting to set and the rich abundance of gastronomic flavours fill the air, trapped in plumes of smoke and steam to give the Djemaa-el-Fna its twilight eeriness, a mesmerising quality I have found nowhere else. As the evening darkens, the hustle bustle of activity rages on. The exotic music appears louder and more hypnotic.
The Shaman display their apocotheries and cures, both living and dead, which always begs the question “how does one apply such a thing”? A fine example is the Black Scorpion trapped inside a jam-jar. “It’s for haemorrhoids” I am informed. “well… um.. if I had Piles…. How would I apply it”? Seemed a suitable response. “I suggest you kill it first” Came the logical answer!
Directly south of the Jemaa-el-Fna is Rue Bab Agnaou. A five minute walk takes you straight to the famous Bab Aganou entrance to the Kasbah district of the Medina.
For my family…. We do enjoy the D'Jemma el-Fna and it’s cacophony of exotic wonders but would not want to be immersed in it 24/7 during our stay. The Kasbah is “not too far…. from the madding crowd” but a short peripheral distance away to enjoy... then retreat.. to some semblance of tranquillity.
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