+(9A).JPG)
At the beginning our plan was to avoid cities such as Marrakesh due to noisy, crowded and touristy character of big towns, but it was great spot to stop for a while as The Eve Branson Foundation project sites are located just 40 km from Marrakesh.
Wooow...have you ever been to the Sunday Market in Edinburgh? The souks (market) in Marrakesh are like that one but 200 times bigger and people there have maaannnyyy things to sell. Huge diversity of products: delicious fresh squished orange juice, great food, many souvenirs (scarves, bags, jewellery, lamps, music instruments, key rings even weapons) Again it’s bamboo covered streets are a maze difficult to navigate – it’s really easy to get lost there. Marrakesh’s Medina is just huge and there is always something happening on its main square the Dja el Fna – from acrobatic shows to the snake charmers. What in daytime is just a busy square is absolutely bustling with life in the night – suddenly after the dusk the whole square gets filled with footstalls. Charlie really enjoyed traditional keftas (a food which is made by grinding meat and mixing it with an assortment of spices), which are being prepared for you from fresh meat as you watch. Marrakesh is a very chaotic place, but it is a very beautiful city as well. In the evening as we were starving, we decided to go to Medina for a late dinner. Finding a nice place where food was being served was not a difficult task. The famous square had changed its function from being a market/entertainment centre into a huge restaurant. A lot of people were inviting us for food by trying to guess where we were from and speaking in our native language. The whole Medina Marrakesh’s square looked like a big Place of Fun, people were even fishing... for cans of coke.
Our photo album:
No comments:
Post a Comment