A riad is a traditional Moroccan townhouse built around an interior courtyard, with rooms facing inward onto the courtyard and almost nothing facing the street. The word comes from the Arabic for garden. Many have been converted into small guesthouses, which is why,...
Three days in Marrakech works best split one way: day one inside the medina on foot, day two for the gardens, palaces and the modern city, day three out of town. That sequence puts the hardest walking first, saves the sitting down for the middle, and ends with a...
If you only have a few days in Marrakech, spend most of them inside the old walled medina: the square at Jemaa el-Fnaa, the souks behind it, one or two of the palaces, and one garden to sit in when the heat gets heavy. Everything else is a bonus. Below is how we would...
You can see Marrakech perfectly well without a guide. Plenty of people do. What a guide changes is how much you understand of what you are looking at, how much time you lose being lost, and how much energy you spend deflecting people who want to sell you something....
The four things that trip up most first time visitors to Morocco are money, dress, photographs of people, and Friday. Get those right and nearly everything else is straightforward. Morocco is a welcoming country, courtesy goes a very long way here, and most awkward...
