Eating well in Marrakech is not hard, but the best food is rarely in the places with the biggest signs. It is in stalls that make one thing, in bakeries that share ovens with the neighborhood, and in the clay urns that come out of a bathhouse furnace in the afternoon....
The Majorelle Garden is a small botanical garden in Gueliz, outside the medina walls, built around a cobalt blue villa and studio, planted with cactus, bamboo and palms. It was created by the French painter Jacques Majorelle, and later bought and restored by Yves...
Jemaa el-Fnaa is the large open square at the edge of the Marrakech medina, and it changes character completely between morning and midnight. In daylight it is a wide, hot, fairly ordinary plaza with juice carts and a handful of performers. After sunset it becomes an...
Marrakech is a generally safe city for visitors, and the problems people actually run into are commercial rather than criminal: persistent selling, unofficial guides, and taxi fares quoted well above the meter. Serious crime against tourists is not the common...
Buying a Moroccan rug is one of the real pleasures of a visit here, and also the purchase people most often get wrong. The two things that decide whether you are happy with it in five years are knowing what type of rug you are looking at and checking how it is made....
